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Excerpt from Poems of English Country Life: Selected and Edited With Introduction and Notes The purpose of this little collection is to supply one more book of English poetry, which may be studied as an alternative to Shakespeare. It is well that boys and girls should make acquaintance in the way of school work with other English literature besides the works of the great dramatist, which are moreover too hard for many classes. Nature-poetry is a plant specially of English growth, and therefore specially worthy of attention in English education; and the study of it has the further advantage that it should quicken observation of nature itself. We have limited our choice to poetry dealing with nature as it may be seen in England, because, a selection having to be made somehow, it seemed good to direct attention in the first place to things which are to be seen at home. And we have included poetry dealing with country pursuits, as likely to be specially interesting to the young. It may seem strange that there is no poetry about the sea in this volume; but, except for short isolated passages, the sea has been almost entirely neglected by the great English poets down to the present generation. 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.