A Book for a Corner: Or Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (Classic Reprint)

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FB&C Limited, 2015 - 466 pages
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This may be speaking in a boastful manner; but an Editor has a right to boast of his originals, especially when they are such as have comforted and delighted him throughout his own life, and are for that reason recom mended by him to others.

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About the author (2015)

Leigh Hunt was an English essayist, writer, and a friend of Shelley and Keats. He is the author of "Imagination and Fancy" and "What is Poetry? "David Jesson-Dibley is the principal reader for The Professional Author's and Publisher's Association.

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