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“ HAVING lately seen in print some poems ascribed to me which I never wrote, and some of my own inaccurately copied, I thought it would not be improper to publish, in this little volume, all the verses of which I am the author. ”
—James Beattie, 1777
“ SEVERAL poems I would willingly have withdrawn, if it were not almost impossible to extricate what has been once caught and involved in the machinery of the press. ”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850
“ THOSE laconics or paragraphs which occasionally appear over the Compiler’s name, have been inserted more to fill a vacant space than with any intention of obtruding his own writings upon the public. ”
—Edward Parsons Day, 1883
“ I HAVE left out a great many poems that would have betrayed my identity... Why then publish? I have no right to count on a long life and I am not willing to be ‘edited, revised, and corrected’... I feel towards my poems as many women do towards their weak children; and treasure them because if they were conceived in grief they healed my heart. After the first smart of a new loss was softened, next to writing my greatest comfort was reading, and I did not then seek great authors: I sought minor Poets — of whom I dare hope to be one. Could I but be a like comfort to some sorrowing hearts I should feel my life-griefs had not been in vain. ”
—Opal, 1874