Excerpt from The Mountains About WilliamstownThe present age, notwithstanding an abundant, and, to a large extent, critical appreciation of most forms Of art, is notable for its lack of interest in verse, and, with this, Of discrimination in judging Of its relative value. For this reason, no greater service can be rendered to the reader of literature than by presenting to him a work Of genuine poetry, accompanied by the reasons which seem to make it this.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.