. Plays and poems . jHB work of a young man of one-and-twenty—indeed, Harriet kenyon was writtenwhen I was barely twenty—I cannot hopethat these PlyAYS and POEMS will great-ly please or widely interest. However, Ibelieve, the catholic reader will find the volume of suchmerit as will repay perusal. No doubt the critical will censure me, and rightly,for the lax metre of certain parts of the PI,AYS, yetI purposely (though I now believe, unwisely) wrote thePly AYS as they are published, and must be censuredrather for perverted judgment than for any great lack ofmetrical skill. While either is to b
. Plays and poems . jHB work of a young man of one-and-twenty—indeed, Harriet kenyon was writtenwhen I was barely twenty—I cannot hopethat these PlyAYS and POEMS will great-ly please or widely interest. However, Ibelieve, the catholic reader will find the volume of suchmerit as will repay perusal. No doubt the critical will censure me, and rightly,for the lax metre of certain parts of the PI,AYS, yetI purposely (though I now believe, unwisely) wrote thePly AYS as they are published, and must be censuredrather for perverted judgment than for any great lack ofmetrical skill. While either is to be condemned, theformer may be corrected, but the latter, hardly. The poem to the Flag is fashioned after Shelleys SKYI^ARK. D. M.
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