Excerpt from The Isle of Devils: A Historical Tale, Founded on an Anecdote in the Annals of Portugal His poem was written by Monk Lewis, in 1816, on his last voyage to Jamaica. A few copies were printed from the original manuscript at the Advertiser office, Kingston, Jamaica, in 1827, for the sole use of certain friends and admirers. It is from one of these, recently acquired, that the following careful reprint has been made. The work is a great literary curiosity, as well as a striking example of Lewis's wonderful power of imagination in blending the horrible and the beautiful; mingling the most gorgeous and volup tuons descriptions, with scenes and characters loathsome and diabolic. Students and collectors of rare and out of-the - way items in the bye - paths of literature will welcome this opportunity of becoming acquainted with one of the most powerful and yet (until now) practically unknown works of the Great Master whose place in Literature is with Poe, Baudelaire, and Mrs. Shelley. 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.