Excerpt from The Poets and the Poetry of the Century: Joanna Baillie to Mathilde Blind The clerk at the alehouse still claims the great chair, But, of all our proud fellows, the proudest I'll be, While the Maid of Llanwellyn smiles sweetly on me. 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.