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Excerpt from Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry, From Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson: Containing Nearly Two Thousand of the Best Pieces in the English Language; With Sketches of the History of the Poetry of Our Country, and Biographical Notices of Five Hundred of the Poets
If it was difficult to deal with the enormous amount of English verse written up to the end of the last century, the task became infinitely harder as our own times were approached. The rights of property in the works of the living and dead had to be respected, and the law of copyright considered. In all cases where we discovered the existence of these rights, application was made to the poet or his representatives for permission to print the desired quotations. In nearly every instance the permission was kindly granted and we Specially have to thank Mr. Strahan for his very generous reply to our requests also Messrs. Macmillan and Messrs. Moxon, besides many other publishers, for their courtesy, as well as Messrs. \varne Co.
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