Excerpt from A Complete Collection of the English Poems: Which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge His Royal Highness william frederick, Duke of Gloucester, formerly Chancellor of this University, gave annually 8. Gold Medal, to be conferred upon a resident Undergraduate, who should compose in English the best Ode or best Poem in Heroic Verse. 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.