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ROUTLEDGE'S BRITISH POETS. Now Edited, with 
Original Notes and Memoirs, by the Rev. Egbert Arts Willmott, 
Author of ^* Lives of the Sacred Poets," &c. Illustrated by one or 
more of the following distinguished Artists : — 
Edward Corbould. I John Gilbert. 
Birket Foster. j W. Harvey, &c. &c. 
Tlie Volumes average Five Hundred pages each, and contain a Bio- 
graphical Preface, and Critical Notices of each Author, with the 
REV. R. A. WILLMOTT AS EDITOR. 
" There is scarcely a man living from whom we should receive with more pleasure 
and confidence an edition of our English poets than from Mr. Willmott. His pre- 
vious works have all prepared us to expect much from his editorship. And in 
notl)ing a7'e we disappointed. A more pleasing and satisfactory edition of 'the 
Poets' we cannot desire than are here presented to us." — T/ir Noncovformist. 
" A more genial writer than Robert Aris Willmott, and a more pleasant com- 
panion, it would be difficult to find amongst living authors." — Edinhurgh Guardian, 
Prospectus. 
The Works of the Poets whom time has rendered classical wall be 
printed without abridgment, and from the purest text. We should 
mutilate a cathedral as soon as the "Night Thoughts," &c. &;c. Of the 
gold of Gray, not a grain must be dropped ; and who would lose one 
note from the harp of Collins ? It is hoped that the illustration of each 
author will present some features of novelty and instruction. A Bio- 
graphical Preface will relate the circumstances of a life, and give a 
general view of the character and the genius. The critical notices will 
be scattered through the volumes ; each poem of particular excellence 
being regarded as a masterpiece in a picture gallery, and having its 
description appended to it. Gray's ''Ode on Eton" gains a deeper 
pathos when read by the light of the affecting incident that occasioned 
it. Some exquisite Works of Imagination await this treatment, and 
promise to rew-ard it. 
The follotving are now ready : — 
PERCY'S (BISHOP) EELIQUES OF ANCIENT 
POETEY. A New Edition, with Introduction entirely new- 
written, and many Notes, by Rev. K. A. Willmott, and Eight Illus- 
trations by E. Corbould. 
Sir Walter Scott says, " I do believe I never read a book half so frequently, or with 
half the enthusiasm, as I did ' Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry.' " 
*' Percy, with a genius fervid and delicate, deserved the editor he has found in 
Mr. Willmott, who appreciates him justly and truly."— AthencBum. 
BURNS' POETICAL WORKS. Edited by the Rev. 
E. A. Willmott. Illustrated by John Gilbert. 
" Since the day when Jeffery, stopping to stare at a man, and a shopkeeper, seeing 
his look of wonder, exclaimed, ' Ayo, laddie ! you may well look at that man — he is 
Robert Bui^ns,' admiration has shown itself in every shape— the most touching and 
the most grotesque — from the panegyric of Wordsworth to the frenzy of Wilsoi) 
rolling himself on the spot where Tam O'Shanter was composed," 
