Englands Bards 1864 Or The Three Poems

Author : William Fulford
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334630231
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book England's Bards, 1864, Or the Three Poems written by William Fulford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from England's Bards, 1864, or the Three Poems: Which Were Awarded the One Hundred Guineas Offered as Prizes in the Advertisement "Ho! For a Shakespeare!" Which Appeared About the Time of Shakespeare's Tercentenary Anniversary The old proverb, that Good Wine needs no bush, is not more true than that good poetry needs no introduction. The circum stances, however, under which the following Poems were called into existence are so peculiar that a few prefatory words of explanation are due, no less in justice to the writers than in courtesy to the readers. When all were seeking the most appropriate means of showing their appreciation of England's greatest poet, and of paying a fitting tribute to his memory, we believed they would most honour him who the nearest approached the excellence of his immortal song. But while the Muses were highly delighted With our efforts on behalf of the owers of society, they had not yet bidden us to tune their lyre and to meet the exigencies of the case we cried, Ho for 3 Shakespeare! And offered One Hundred Guineas in Prizes for the three best compositions - half for the writers, and half to a Shakespeare Memorial Fund. This experiment, notwithstanding the limited notice given, has proved a decided success; in fact, out of the hundreds of com positions submitted, so many were praiseworthy that we regret our space precludes the possibility of giving publicity to more than the three poems awarded prizes: still we cannot omit this opportunity of expressing our thanks to all who submitted their poems for competition. 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."