Excerpt from The Culprit Fay Historically The Culprit Fay appears as the first narrative poem of any importance in American letters. With Scott's narrative poems and Moore's Lallah Rookh, it marks the transition from the fixed penta meters of the old heroic verse to the lighter, shorter lines of the more modern poetry. 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.