The Poets' Pleasaunce

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Excerpt from The Poets' Pleasaunce: Or Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, Which Our Pleasant Poets Have, in Past Time, for Pastime, Planted The design of the present work is to illustrate the extent of homage which our best Poets, prior to the present century, have paid to Nature, in Flowers - her most delicately beautiful productions. It is proposed in fact to treat of Flowers on the plan which "Christopher North" suggests would make a beautiful work if applied to Birds, viz. - to collect all that in former times has been sung in their praise, and it is the intention of the Author, in a subsequent volume, to carry out this suggestion respecting the feathered Favourites of Nature. At the same time it is intended to exhibit a History op the Poetry of Flowers, both collectively and individually, confining the selection, however, to those Flowers only which have been celebrated in verse during at least two of the periods into which we have divided the Poets. For the purpose of developing these Histories more clearly, the extracts have, in each instance, been arranged in chronological order, according to the periods in which they were written. 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.