Excerpt from English Poems: Selected and Edited, With Illustrative and Explanatory Notes and Bibliographies, The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1800)In the preparation of notes for a volume of selections, an editor's obligations to previous editors are so great that to specify them would be tedious, it may suffice, instead.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.