Excerpt from The North American Review, Vol. 28 Mr Hunt's name and writings, by a very easy and natural association, remind us of the decline of poetry in public esti mation; and we intend to take advantage of this opportunity to account for it, as well as to give our opinion of the poets and poetry of the present age; a subject amply discussed by Mr Hunt in his 'recollections.' We take it that the parade of Lord Byron's name, in the titlepage, was intended to gain a sale for the work; though we would by no means charge such an unworthy artifice on the author, who evidently regards him self, as the most delightful source Of interest in his book. The other characters aroomada to revolve round himself, in a system like that Of Ptolemy, representing the most lack-lustre body as the centre of the whole. 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.