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VI there an English reader may be found, who is not entirely unacquainted with the name or works of the author of the beautiful dramas of and, the former of which has long enjoyed an European celebrity in the translation of , and the latter is one of the most charming of 's specimens of the Hindú Theatre; here and there even in England may be found a lover of the graceful, tender, picturesque, and fanciful, who knows something, and would gladly know more, of the sweet poet of the , and ; whilst in Germany, he has been deeply studied in the original, and enthusiastically admired in translation,—not the Orientalist merely, but the poet, the critic, the natural philosopher,—a , a , a , having agreed, on account of his tenderness of feeling and his rich creative imagination, to set very high among the glorious company of the Sons of Song.

That the Poem which is now for the first time