Excerpt from Eva, a True Story of Light and Darkness: The Ill-Omened Marriage, and Other Tales and PoemsIN regarding the general mould and spirit of our more recent poetry, nothing is more obvious than that, while the works of Byron and Scott still command the circula tion which is the surest token of their popularity with the reading Many the imitators of their peculiar attributes have gradually passed away - yielding to the in¿uence which Wordsworth and Shelley have, year by year, more and more visibly exercised upon the poetical taste and temper of the rhyming Few.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.