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Excerpt from The Forest Minstrel The productions of Mrs. Peirson are just beginning to attract general notice among the lovers of poetry. It is true, that her occasional effusions in the literary and other journals, for a number of years past, had drawn forth expressions of very high approbation, from persons whose opinions were entitled to unqualified respect. But when it is recollected, that the mass of newspaper poetry is justly regarded as mere trash - rhyme without sentiment, and sickly sentimentality without substance or sense - it is easy to conceive, that a writer of a higher tone and order is placed in disadvantageous circumstances, when forced to breathe in such an unnatural atmosphere, and in such company. Mrs. Peirson, moreover, has been secluded for many years from all direct intercourse with the world of letters and the arts, and had no personal friends at her side, to call the attention of the public mind in the outset to her Mountain-Lay. Hers was a "voice in the wilderness;" and although an occasional listener adjudged that voice to utter "Thoughts that breathe and words that burn," yet there were few who knew even her name and residence, and fewer still her intellectual and moral excellence and worth. Besides all this, she had, for a series of years, been severely disciplined in the school of affliction. 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.