Excerpt from The Magic Casement: A Book of Faery Poems Giving Glimpses of the World Beyond the Casement; Selected and Arranged With Introduction and Notes Some exquisite work by some well-nigh for gotten poets like George Darley has been included, and the test for inclusion (over and above the requirement that they shall give us a glimpse Of the faery World beyond the casement) in all cases has been simply the test for poetry, the question whether, in the editor's fallible judgment, the verses helped to beget again that golden time when the earth appeared an insubstantial faery place and a fit home for song. 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.