Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland The editor is also on terms Of intimacy with many of the other contemporary writers whose poetry ap pears in the book, and has striven to do justice to their literary ability, by the selection of such Of their poems as are best calculated, in his opinion, to do credit to them, without Offending the taste Of the most fastidious readers Of the book. 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.