Lucasta: The Poems of Richard Lovelace, Esq. (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Lucasta: The Poems of Richard Lovelace, Esq.

Lovelace's Lucasta was included by the late S. Wo Singer, Esq., in his series of Early English Poets but that gentleman, besides striking out certain passages, which he, somewhat unaccountably and inconsistently, regarded as indelicate, omitted a good deal of preliminary matter in the form of commendatory verses which, though possibly of small worth, were necessary to render the book complete; it is possible, that Mr. Singer made use of a copy of I/ucasta which was deficient at the commencement. It may not be generally known that, independently of its imperfections in other respects, Mr. Singer's reprint abounds with the grossest blunders.

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