Excerpt from Sir Lancelot: A Legend of the Middle Ages
It is now fifteen years since this poem was composed. Long before my publisher called this autumn for a second edition, I had twice carefully revised it, and on occasion of the second revision had made considerable changes. Many hundreds of verses have been omitted, a portion of the poem, which was not in its natural place before, has now been published in another volume, some hundreds of new verses have been added, a great number of alterations, chiefly of a metrical character, have been made all over the poem, and one book of it may almost be said to have been reconstructed. These changes, it is hoped, will make it somewhat more worthy of that public favour, which it has already received. The work is now more like what it was in its original conception.
The object of the poem is not an ambitious one. It has always seemed to me, that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.
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