Excerpt from The Siamese Twins: A Satirical Tale of the Times Again, too, while the Public, fascinated by the brilliancy of a bold and uncommon genius, grow wedded to his style-even to his faults - they resent with peculiar contempt any resem blance to the object of an admiration which they affect to pre serve as an exclusive worship. And yet how few can escape from a seeming imitation, which in reality is nothing more than the tone of the age in which they live; and though more em phatically noted in the most popular poet, than in his less for tunate cotemporaries, he also was influenced by, instead of creating. Thus it may be no paradox to say, that a new poet has of late incurred condemnation on two grounds, both of which he must have enjoyed a peculiar felicity to escape - one for being unlike Lord Byron, the other for being like him. Perhaps, without carrying the inquiry farther, we have already been ena bled to see that there has been reason to believe the times of late somewhat singularly unfavourable to poetry and that you. 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.