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Excerpt from Literary Chit-Chat: With Miscellaneous Poems and an Appendix of Prose Papers The papers entitled Literary Chit-Chat were written at irregular intervals for a Calcutta periodical. The reader will hardly need to be told that they were produced with no toil of preparation. The matter, he its quality what it may, was always ready, and, with respect to the style, I had rarely the leisure or the inclination to bestow upon it that care ...

Excerpt from Literary Leaves, or Prose and Verse, Vol. 2 of 2: Chiefly Written in India Spenserian measure is one stanza of nine lines. Some poems have been constructed entirely of sonnet-stanzasf. Though the Spenserian stanza is much shorter, it is generally complete in itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of a...

Excerpt from Literary Leaves, or Prose and Verse, Vol. 2 of 2: Chiefly Written in India It was Ben Jonson who first made use of this now stale comparison He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets, which he said was like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. But Ben Jonson's taste was not infallible. According to Urum mond's report of his conversations Spenser's stanzas pleased him ...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...