The Glory Of Belgium PDF Download

Excerpt from The Glory of Belgium: A Tribute and a Chronicle Though Belgium cannot claim to have influenced our English literature to nearly the same extent as have many other European countries, yet the two nations have mostly lived in a close fellow ship and some of our poets have sung of that noble plot of land which became the Kingdom of Belgium in 1830. That part of the Old province of Flanders now forming a portion of Belgium claims a fair share of these poetical tributes, and seems often to have been visited by English armies, for the most part friendly, since Van Artevelde sought the aid of Edward III. Against French influence. Belgium has now earned the undying gratitude and admiration of our country and her Allies, and it is therefore hoped this small selection of poems may not be without a unique interest to all lovers of poetry, for there has of late been a large addition from which to choose made to our English verse bearing one way or another on Belgium - a revival, on an even greater scale, of the outpourings of poets when inspired by the great events culminating in Waterloo. 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.