Excerpt from Some Scraps of Verse and Prose by Dante Gabriel Rossetti In this general view my brother was, I think, not far from agreeing with myself: in the case of such poets as Coleridge, Shelley, or Keats, he would - for the purposes of any edition affecting to be complete - have put in every thing he could lay his hands upon, although he would always have preferred, for his own reading, a compendium of the masterpieces. But, as regards himself individually, personal sensitivene'ss gave him' a different bias. He de tested the very idea that some of his boyish crudities (such as Sir Hug/t t/ze Heron, for which ingenuous persons are willing to give some ten times the price of his Collected Works) should ever be brought forward. I therefore, in compiling the Collected Worles, excluded all such crudities; and to this day I would not publish, even in a casual and. Scattered form, those writings of his which I believe he would have considered essentially poor or bad. But there are some other things, of minor importance or completeness - sometimes intentionally jocular - which appear to me considerably removed from being bad or poor, and which he himself would probably have thought admis sible for eventual printing, though not for publication dur ing his lifetime, or as a portion of his solid literary life work. The pieces which I have here put together are of this kind. They all belong to the days of his youth - the latest of them to 1853 or thereabouts, when he completed his twenty-fifth year. I think that every one of them has its value, whether on the ground of intrinsic merit, or as illustrating some phase of his mental development and practice. I have grouped them together as best I can, and added a few remarks by way of elucidation. 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.