POETICAL WORKS

OF

THOMAS CAMPBELL.
HARVARD

UNIVERSITI

LIBRARY.

WITH NOTES, AND A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH,

BY THE

REV. W. A. HILL, M.A.,

Of Worcester College, Oxford.

ILLUSTRATED BY THIRTY-SEVEN WOOD-CUTS.

FROM DESIGNS BY HARVEY.

LONDON:

EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.

1858.

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Harvard College Library,
Bequest of Edward Ray Thompson,
of Troy, N. Y.
December 14, 1899.

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LONDON:

BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

PREFACE.

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." He has, however, been emboldened to present to the public a few notes to some of the chief poems, compressed as much as possible, prefaced by a short Biographical Sketch of their Author, (portions of it in the Poet's own words,) 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; and, further, that the force of his melody of diction and purity of style will be heightened by a knowledge of the sweetness of his natural disposition, the singular gentleness and modesty of his whole character, and the realisation that he "liked to be loved," and had a most affectionate heart.

The Editor acknowledges with pleasure the kindness of Dr. Beattie in allowing him permission both to consult and make extracts from a work recently published, entitled "Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell, edited by WILLIAM BEATTIE, M.D., one of his Executors."

SOUTH KENNINGTON, LONDON,

August, 1851.

W. A. H.