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Excerpt from Poems of William Edmondstoune Aytoun This edition of Aytoun's poems contains, with one exception, all those poems and translations of which the undivided authorship is known to be his. The one exception is his translation of the Iliad, Book XXII. This may be found in Blackwood's Magazine, vol. xlv, pp. 634-642. Its omission here will be pardoned. It is by the kind permission of Messrs. William Blackwood Sons that it has been possible to include Aytoun's contributions to the Bon Gaullier Ballads and to The Poems and Ballads of Goethe, as determined by Sir Theodore Martin, Aytoun's collaborator in both books. It will be understood, of course, that some of the poems and translations not included in this edition were the joint productions of the two writers. In 'The Oxford Poets' it is the rule not to give any critical appraisement of the poet, but the present editor may be allowed to say that he finds his greatest satisfaction in having been able to put before the reader all those pieces on which are based Aytoun's claims as a humorist: his contributions to the Bon Gaultier Ballads and the anticipatory pseudo-review of Firmilian, and Firmilian itself. These last two, famous as they are, are now reprinted for the first time. The miscellaneous character of Aytoun's work not lending itself to chronological arrangement, the poems have been grouped according to character: romantic poems, humorous poems, translations, and juvenilia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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