“Dear Sir,—Many thanks to you
and Mr. Moxon, for the little volume of
poems by your son, which I have just perused with very great
pleasure; and beg leave most sincerely to congratulate you on the true feeling
of poetry which they evince, and the promise they afford of his attaining no
mean station in literature, since he can accomplish so much in the outset of
his career. The times, we are daily told, are not poetical; but I cannot, and
do not, believe, that the simple and natural effusions of the Muse will ever
lose their attraction. The subject of the Woodman’s Daughter is painful,
but it is very
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