Some few years ago a new edition appeared, but this too is now out of print and is fetching fancy prices.

However, you must not expect anything too wonderful from this way of introducing the subject.

The facts only show that the poems are liked by persons of refinement and wealth.

I hope to make you like some of them, but the difficulties of so doing are considerable, because of the extremely English character of some pieces and the extremely Greek tone of others.
There is also some uneven work.

The poet is not in all cases successful.
Sometimes he tried to write society verse, and his society verse must be considered a failure.