Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Delights of the Muses: Secular Poems
The present book omits the Latin and Greek pieces contained in the edition of 1648, but otherwise it is a careful reprint, in modernized spelling, of that rare little tome, a copy of which is in the editor's collection.
We would now, in conclusion, speak of our humble little labour in endeavouring to Show Crashaw as a quoted and quotable bard. The collection may be a revelation to many who have rarely seen the Poet quoted, save in that epigram on the miracle at Cana in Galilee. We make no apology for this part of our volume, for we think it needs none. Jewels five words long -to quote our late Laureate - are always precious, and should be doubly so from an inheritor of unfulfilled renown, as we contend Crashaw to be.
The nominal price put upon this small edition will, we trust, have its due effect in making these poems known to the lover of our choice old poetry, and possibly create a desire for a larger measure of music from the same poetic store.
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