Excerpt from James Clarence Mangan: His Selected Poems Delicate spirits, pushed away In the hot press of the noonday. Mangan's is such a memory, captive and over borne. It may be unjust to lend him the epitaph of defeat, for he never strove at all. One can think of no other, in the long dis astrous annals of English literature, cursed with so monotonous a misery, so much hope. 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.