The Poetic Old-World

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Excerpt from The Poetic Old-World: A Little Book for Tourists When travelling in Europe, I have often longed for a small volume of the most famous poems associated with historic and classic localities. While it is a pleasure to read such poems at home after the journey is done, it is more of a joy to identify haunting lines and to refresh ones memory with familiar poems in the places themselves and before impressions have become dim. With this thought, I have arranged the present book in the order of a possible itinerary, which brings together poems relating to places near each other. I did not know of Miss Du Bois's "Poems for Travelers" until "The Poetic Old-World" was practically completed. The two books, however, have only fifty poems in common, and cover ground so different that I suspect that the possessor of either will be apt to want the other. I wish gratefully to acknowledge some valuable suggestions from Mr. Henry S. Pancoast, the well-known authority on English literature and also a compiler of a volume of "Standard English Poems." 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.