Excerpt from Chastelard and Mary Stuart: Two Tragedies Then there leapt upon the world a man who in Atalanta and Poems and Ballads, and the poems that followed invented more metres than all his con temporaries - nay more than all the other poets in the language put together, from Chaucer down to his own day - a man of whom it may be said that he rarely writes a poem without inventing for it a new metre a metre that is more melodious than could be invented by any other English poet. 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.