Excerpt from The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, Vol. 1: From the Earliest to the Present Time, Comprising Characteristic Selections From the Works of the More Noteworthy Scottish Poets, With Biographical and Critical Notices

The purpose Of this Work is to give a comprehensive View of Scottish Poetry from the earliest to the present time, in a Condensed and easily accessible form. Comparatively few persons can command sufficient leisure to enable them to examine thoroughly, in these busy days upon which we have fallen, the wilderness of separate volumes, of the Scottish poets, and still fewer can afford to place them on the Shelves of their libraries. Many readers regret being thus deprived Of the opportunity of becoming fully acquainted in a systematic manner with a body of poetry and song, than which there is none superior in the literature of any land ancient or modern. TO all such the present Work it is believed will come as a great boon. It will be found to present selections from the writings Of some two hundred and twenty Scottish poets, sufficiently ample In extent to enable the reader to form a precise opinion respecting the style and merits Of the authors.

Another purpose Of this Work is to supply what has long been a desideratum in Scottish literature - concise biographies of the poets, with notices of their works, and critical remarks upon their writings to tell, in short, when they lived, what they wrote, and the estimation in which their writings are held by competent authorities. TO quote the words Of one whose poems are included in this Collection, We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on the Poets, what ideas men have formed of them, what work they did.

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