The Epic of London

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Excerpt from The Epic of London: An Epic Poem in Ten Cantos, and Twenty Rhapsodies This poem has had an eventful history. On the eve of its publication, the whole edition disappeared, and my utmost efforts have failed to recover one single copy. This was about twenty or thirty years ago, and my mortification was so extreme that I gave up all idea of ever producing the epic at all. It would certainly never have seen the light, had not my attention been called to a series of unblushing plagiarisms which from that time forward began to circulate. These were most noticeable in relation to the sensational Canto containing the Prophecy, in which the future of London in the year 4000 is depicted. Passages and phrases by the hundred have been pilfered from this source. For this reason I have resolved to publish the poem. But I must needs offer it to the public as "London in the Later Victorian Age, " for the years have rolled by and much has changed since it was first written. 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.