ADVERTISEMENT TO THIS EDITION. THIS edition of Akenside's Poems is a reprint of that prepared by the Rev. Alexander Dyce for Pickering's "Aldine Poets," in 1834, with some improvements, consisting principally in the correction of errors discovered by a re-collation of the texts. The Poems as far as the Epistle to Curio, p. 409, are given as they appear in the authoritative edition of Mr. Dyson, London, 1772. The remaining pieces have been compared with the printed originals, except An Epistle to Curio and Love, an Elegy, which have necessarily been taken at second-hand from the new Aldine edition of Akenside, published by Bell and Daldy. From this also are derived the additional notes to the Miscellaneous Poems, p. 453. 4-14-179 JUNE, 1864. |