ADVERTISEMENT.
Poetry needs no Preface: if it do not speak
for itself, no comment can render it explicit. I
have only, therefore, to state that The Improvisatrice
is an attempt to illustrate that species of
inspiration common in Italy, where the mind is
warmed from the earliest childhood by all that is
beautiful in Nature and glorious in Art. The
character depicted is entirely Italian,—a young
female with all the loveliness, vivid feeling, and
genius of her own impassioned land. She is
supposed to relate her own history; with which are
intermixed the tales and episodes which various
circumstances call forth.
Some of the minor poems have appeared in
The Literary Gazette.
L. E. L.
