Excerpt from Selections From Pope, Dryden, and Various Other British Catholic Poets: Who Preceded the Nineteenth Century: With Biographical and Literary Notices of Those and Other British Catholic Poets of Their Class, Comprising a Brief History of British Catholic Poetry From an Early Period; Designed Not Only for General Use, but Also AThe biographical notices, and many Of the critical and other incidental remarks, contained in the following pages, have been compiled from various foreign works, * and are generally presented in the words of their authors.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.