Excerpt from The Anarchiad: A New England Poem The anarchiad is a mock-critical account of a pretended ancient epic poem, which a member of a society of critics and antiquarians had accidentally found among some recently dis covered ruins, imbedded with utensils more curious and elegant than those of Palmyra or Herculaneum, and whose preservation, through such a long lapse of years, and amid marks of hostility and devastation, was indeed little short of miraculous. The au thor assumes to have taken possession of this poem in the name and for the use of the society of which he was a component part. 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.