Excerpt from Romantic Ballads and Poems of Phantasy I T is butfittz'ng Mat 1 sbould dedicate M is little book to you, who have always bad suck sterling appreciation qf imaginative literature. Like many' of our country folk wigo Izave been born or have lived made in tile Scottie): 117n lands, we Izave, in common, tlze true Celtic passion for tbe weird and tbc supernatural, and for romantic sentiment and action. T hat Mere z': a Romantic Revival imminent in our faerie litera ture, a true awakening of Me genuinely romantic sentiment, is my earnest conviction. Many things pain! To ibis fresbly-stz'm'ng stream qf tendency. A mong our younger artists th ere z': a qm'ckem'ng qf life, of emotion, even of passion, me}; as bar not animated Englz'sfz art since tbe days qf the endeavour of the Preraplzaelz'te Brotlzerlzood it may prove to be a flask z'n tlze' pan, or confined to rare individual aberration, but I {12 ink not. 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.