SCOTT’S POETICAL WORKS.
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.—Containing Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake, Don Roderick, Rokeby, Ballads, Lyrics, and Songs, with a Life of the Author, uniform with Cowper, Burns, &c. $1 25.
“Walter Scott is the most popular of all the poets of the present day and deservedly so. He describes that which is most easily and generally understood with more vivacity and effect than any other writer. His style is clear, flowing and transparent; his sentiments, of which his style is an easy and natural medium, are common to him with his readers.”
SOUTHEY’S POETICAL WORKS.
The complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Esq., LL.D. The ten volume London edition in one elegant royal 8vo. volume, with a fine portrait and vignette. $3 50.
☞ This edition, which the author has arranged and revised with the same care as if it were intended for posthumous publication, includes many pieces which either have never before been collected, or have hitherto remained unpublished.
Preliminary notices are affixed to the long poems,—the whole of the notes retained,—and such additional ones incorporated as the author, since the first publication, has seen occasion to insert.
Contents.
- Joan of Arc.
- Juvenile and Minor Poems.
- Thalaba the Destroyer.
- Madoc.
- Ballads and Metrical Tales.
- The Curse of Kehama.
- Roderick the last of the Goths.
- The Poet’s Pilgrimage to Waterloo.
- Lay of the Laureate.
- Vision of Judgment, &c.
“At the age of sixty-three I have undertaken to collect and edit my poetical works, with the last corrections that I can expect to bestow upon them. They have obtained a reputation equal to my wishes.... Thus to collect and revise them is a duty which I owe to that part of the public by whom they have been auspiciously received, and to those who will take a lively concern in my good name when I shall have departed.”—Extract from Author’s Preface.