Specimens Of American Poetry With Critical And Biographical Notices PDF Download

Excerpt from Specimens of American Poetry, With Critical and Biographical Notices, Vol. 2 of 3: In Three Volumes After the publication of his poem, Barlow was engaged by the general association of the clergy of Connecticut, to re vise Watts's version of the Psalms which had been in gen eral use in their churches, and were regarded by them as capable of improvement by supplying omissions and altering those parts referring to the politics and religion Of Great Bri tain. This task he performed in a very satisfactory manner. Twelve psalms which had been omitted by Watts were added. 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.