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Excerpt from Life in Poetry: Law in Taste; Two Series of Lectures Delivered in Oxford, 1895 1900
Perhaps with natural piety the newly elected Professor of Poetry looks for guidance to the inten tions or the character of the Founder of his Chair. But here too search is in vain: of him little is known that is definite, nothing that is remarkable. Henry Birkhead must have been born in the first quarter of the seventeenth century, for he took his degree of m.a. In 1639. He appears to have been affected by the religious difficulties of his time, for shortly after taking his degree he became a Jesuit. 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.
