Excerpt from Poems: By Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats The poems, plays, essays, and stories in these small volumes are treated, first Of all, as works of literature, which were written to be read and enjoyed, not to be parsed and scanned and pulled to pieces. A Short life Of the author is given, and a portrait, in order to help the student to; know the real person who wrote the book. The introduction tells what it is about, and how it was written, and where the author got the idea, and what it means. The notes at the foot Of the page are simply to give the sense Of the hard words SO that the student can read straight on without turning to a dictionary. The other notes, at the end Of the book, explain difficulties and allusions and fine points.

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