Excerpt from The Poems of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu When' in the year 1880 I wrote a memoir of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, as a Preface to his Purcell Papers, published by Bentley and Son, I was not aware that, besides being the author of the Irish poems contained in that collection of Irish stories and of the celebrated Shamus o'brien, Le Fardl' had anonymously contributed half-a-dozen other poems to the Dueliiz University Magazine between the years 1863 and 1866; two of which, The Legend of the Glaive, and Beatrice, ex bibit Le Fanu's genius in a new and unexpected light. They show him to have been capable of dramatic and lyrical creation on a distinctly higher plane than he had hitherto reached, although the forms in which the drama and the legend are cast are clearly experimental and not always successful. 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.