POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS CAMPBELL. A NEW EDITION. WITH NOTES BY THE REV. W. A. HILL, M.A., OF WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD. "Poets have an unquestion'd right to claim, If not the GREATEST, the MOST LASTING NAME." Congrere. Illustrated by Twenty Vignette Engravings, FROM DESIGNS BY J. M. W. TURNER, R.A. LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, AND ROUTLEDGE, NEW YORK: 56, WALKER STREET. 1861. PREFACE. He THE Editor of this new edition of "Campbell's Poetical Works" has felt great diffidence, almost reluctance, to offer any observations upon the productions of a bard so well known and venerated-one who has so long been admitted "a poet of the first order of genius, and a critic of competent judgment and taste." has, however, been emboldened to present to the public a few notes to some of the chief poems, compressed as much as possible, from a belief that those who have rejoiced in the soft breathings of Mr. Campbell's lyre, will not fail to experience some increase of pleasure in ascertaining under what circumstances those effusions which have been recurred to again and again, with fresh and ever-increasing zest, first suggested themselves to his mind. The Editor acknowledges with pleasure the kindness |