Excerpt from Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 17: July, August, September, 1909 The alliteration and luxuriant diction were but the defects of youth ful work and it was thought that the poet would learn to prune the too numerous shoots of his fancy as Tennyson had his early style of double-shotted' adjectives. In 1866 the first series of Poems and Ballads was published under the title of Laus Veneris.' It is perhaps not too much to say that no volume of verse before or since has caused such an uproar among the critics. The majority of them declared that several of the poems, notably Laus Veneris, ' Anac toria, ' and Dolores, ' were positively indecent, not fit to be read by any respectable person. Naturally enough the book ran through seven editions within a year. 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.