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Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, Vol. 18 AT the opening of our session, when we are at a time when 500 years ago the father Of English poetry composed' some, at least, if not the most celebrated of his works, I have thought we might have a little conversation upon the subject of poetry generally. I should have, perhaps, suggested that we might speak Of our meeting as a symposium, but I fear it lacks the essential element which makes that designation appropriate. Now I do not propose to detain you by discussing what poetry is. The courtesy of one of our members, whom I take this opportunity Of thanking, has enabled me to see how this matter has been treated before in this Society, though I was not aware that the ground had been occupied when I undertook to read a paper upon the subject but having had the advantage of reading Mr. Washington Moon's paper, I do not think that our lines cross each other, for I see that the greater part of his paper is original poetry Of his own, and I certainly cannot emulate him in that respect in anything I shall say to night. 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.

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