Readers accustomed to theġ3 gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modernġ4 writers, if they persist in reading this book to itsġ5 conclusion, will perhaps frequently have toġ6 struggle with feelings of strangeness and auk-ġ7 wardness: they will look round for poetry, andġ8 will be induced to enquire by what species ofġ9 courtesy these attempts can be permitted toĢ0 assume that title.
They were writtenĩ chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the lan-ġ0 guage of conversation in the middle and lowerġ1 classes of society is adapted to the purposes ofġ2 poetic pleasure.
The evi-Ĥ dence of this fact is to be sought, not in theĥ writings of Critics, but in those of Poets them-ħ The majority of the following poems are to beĨ considered as experiments. ARCH, GRACECHURCH-STREET.ġ It is the honourable characteristic of Poetry thatĢ its materials are to be found in every subjectģ which can interest the human mind.
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