A Study of William Shenstone And of His Critics, With Fifteen of His Unpublished Poems And Five of His Unpublished Latin Inscriptions
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" The manuscript was shown to several learned and ingenious friends," writes the 60 WILLIAM SHENSTONE AND HIS CRITICS editor, "who thought the contents too curious to be consigned to oblivion, and importuned the possessor to select some of them and give them to the press. ... At length the importunity of his friends prevailed, and he could refuse nothing to such judges as the author of the Rambler and the late Mr. Shenstone, " (Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, I, p. xiii). "The plan of this ...work was settled in concert with the late elegant Mr. Shenstone, who was to have borne a joint share in it, had not death unhappily pre- vented him. ... It is doubtless a great loss to this work that Mr. Shenstone never saw more than about a third of one of these volumes, as prepared for the press" (p. xvii). Without Shenstone, the old ballads so fortunately saved from kindling fires to warm the hands, would probably never have been published to warm the heart; for, although they gave lively pleasure to the owner, he was much afraid of being ridiculed as a mere ballad-monger if he showed a taste for such things (Percy-Shenstone, p.
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