A handsome volume, which will give the purest pleasure to great numbers of hearts and households. * * * Most readers will find their favorite poems, and selections from their favorite poets. * * * As a cyclopædia for reference, and a volume for general reading, it is both useful and delightful.—Observer, N. Y.
We consider Mr. Sargent’s “Cyclopædia of British and American Poetry” the best of all such cyclopædias in existence.—Buffalo Express.
A poet himself of no mean reputation, and a man of large experience and excellent taste in literature, he possessed just the qualities requisite for the difficult task of sifting the great mass of British and American poetry, and selecting not only the poems which were good in themselves, but those which most fairly represent the genius and style of the several authors, and still keep the book down to reasonable proportions. His biographical sketches of the poets are admirable, giving just the information a reader cares for. We think Mr. Sargent’s work is even better than Mr. Bryant’s, and that is of itself no small praise.—Troy Press.
We have in this volume the choicest from what would fill many library shelves, and also, at hand here, many fragmentary pieces, familiar favorites, but such as otherwise we should not know where to find when wanted.—The Advance, Chicago.
The selections are so judiciously made and so handsomely clothed that the public cannot fail to be grateful, both for the skill of the editor and the taste of the publishers.—Christian Advocate, N. Y.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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