William Rounseville Alger

The Poetry of the Orient William Rounseville Alger

The whole field of Oriental literature, so ras accessible through English, Latin, German, and French translations, has long been with me a favorite province for excursions in such leisure hours as I could cchbt mand. And during that time I have been in the habit of-versifying the brief passages which struck me most forcibly. From the enjoyment these peculiar jagments of meditation and imagery gave me, -from the conviction that others too would enjoy them, frc Mnthe difl Sculty of finding them where they now lie, dispersed and buried amidst repelling masses of dry detail, -and from the expressed desire of several friends, arose the resolve to venture the present publication. There seems to me also a striking propriety, and the promise of prct, in bringing to the acquaintance of Americans the most marked mental peculiarities of theO
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