Sade critiqued the genre in the preface of his Reflections on the novel ( 1800 ) which is widely accepted today, stating that the Gothic is " the inevitable product of the revolutionary shock with which the whole of Europe resounded ".

The second edition, published in 1800, had only Wordsworth listed as the author, and included a preface to the poems, which was augmented significantly in the 1802 edition.

It was illustrated by Thomas Bewick ( 1796 ), by Thomas Stothard ( 1800 ), and by Hugh Thomson ( 1896 ), with a preface by RF Sharp.

A second edition was published in 1800, in which Wordsworth included additional poems and a preface detailing the pair's avowed poetical principles.

Meigen's " Avant-Propos " ( preface ) is dated " le premier Germinal an 7 " ( 21 March 1799 ) and Baumhauer's " Introduction " is dated " le 10 Messidor an 7 " and so the work dates from early 1800. Nouvelle Classification is a " prodrome " ( A prodromus is a preliminary publication intended as a basis for future work ) to a planned larger work, following discussion. The Diptera are divided into 88 genera, each with a short diagnosis in French and the number of European species which Meigen recognised as belonging to each genus.

Another edition was published in 1802, Wordsworth added an appendix titled Poetic Diction in which he expanded the ideas set forth in the preface.

But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.

Janet Hitchman, in the preface to " Striding Folly ", remarks that " Wimsey may have been the sad ghost of a wartime lover (...).

The text is divided into two parts, consisting of what Wittgenstein calls, in the preface, Bemerkungen, translated by Anscombe as " remarks ".

By Dr. Alice Drysdale Vickery ( with preface and remarks ) ( Letchworth: Garden City Press, 1912 ).

Gluck ( whose remarks on the function of overtures in the preface to Alceste are historic ) based himself on Italian models, of loose texture.

In Book V, after an interesting preface concerning regular polygons, and containing remarks upon the hexagonal form of the cells of honeycombs, Pappus addresses himself to the comparison of the areas of different plane figures which have all the same perimeter ( following Zenodorus's treatise on this subject ), and of the volumes of different solid figures which have all the same superficial area, and, lastly, a comparison of the five regular solids of Plato.

In the preface to Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Baum remarks that the Wizard had turned out to be a popular character with the children who had read the first book, and so he brought the Wizard back.

Dr Edleston, in his preface to Newton's correspondence with Cotes, justly remarks: " If Flamsteed the Astronomer-Royal had cordially co-operated with him in the humble capacity of an observer in the way that Newton pointed out and requested Of him ... the lunar theory would, if its creator did not overrate his own powers, have been completely investigated, so far as he could do it, in the first few months of 1695, and a second edition of the Principia would probably have followed the execution of the task at no long interval.

Otto Jahn the first great Mozart scholar apparently viewed this copy early in the 1860's, as he directs remarks about it in the preface to his 1862 edition on Mozart.

Ludlow highlights this in his concluding preface remarks:

In his preface to both the British and American editions of the book, Vernon Sproxton remarks that he has seen Anna's drawings and notes and that he believes her to be real.

As he remarks in the book's preface, the original assignment was to produce a " photographic and verbal record of the daily living and environment of an average white family of tenant farmers.

Though the preface initially states Luke ’ s intentions for writing, by closely examining the contents of the work as a whole, scholars have surmised that Luke ’ s purpose is much more complex.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

According to the preface the purpose of Luke is to write a historical account, while bringing out the theological significance of the history.

At first his purpose seemed to be purely artistic, but when Le Disciple appeared, in 1889, the preface to that story revealed his moral enthusiasm.

Schlick's book begins with a preface in three parts: the composer first thanks his patrons, then briefly discusses the nature of music, and finally describes the purpose of the Spiegel: it was not intended for organists and / or organ builders, as it may seem from the title, but for those church and monastery authorities who wanted to buy an organ, or had one entrusted to their care.

In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to " attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it.

His main purpose was to modernize and reinterpret Christianity ; he says in the preface to the third edition of the book: " I have written it solely in the service of evangelical truth, to win to the truth those especially who have been most unhappily alienated from the church and its interests, in a great measure through the fault of a reactionary party, blinded by hierarchical aims.

In the preface ( page xiii ), Edelman describes, as follows, the purpose of the book.

** In its original preface, Bridges stated that his purpose in writing on Psalm 119 was to ' furnish a correct standard of Evangelical sincerity for the habitual scrutiny of his own heart ', corresponding to ' the several graces of the Christian system '

J. N. Darby's purpose was, as he states in the preface to his English NT, to make a modern translation for the unlearned who have neither access to manuscript texts nor training and knowledge of ancient languages of the Scriptures.

" And did those feet in ancient time " is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books.

The word curling first appears in print in 1620 in Perth, in the preface and the verses of a poem by Henry Adamson.

Coleridge described how he wrote the poem in the preface to his collection of poems, Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep, published in 1816:

The poem's self-proclaimed fragmentary nature combined with Coleridge's warning about the poem in the preface turns Kubla Khan into an " anti-poem ", a work that lacks structure, order, and leaves the reader confused instead of enlightened.

The preface then provided an origin to both the poem and why it was merely a smaller portion of an intended larger work.

In 1981, Kathleen Wheeler contrasts the Crewe Manuscript note with the Preface: " Contrasting this relatively factual, literal, and dry account of the circumstances surrounding the birth of the poem with the actual published preface, one illustrates what the latter is not: it is not a literal, dry, factual account of this sort, but a highly literary piece of composition, providing the verse with a certain mystique.

He continued by discussing the preface: " despite its obvious undependability as a guide to the actual process of the poem's composition, the preface can still, in Wheeler's words, lead us ' to ponder why Coleridge chose to write a preface ... ' What the preface describes, of course, is not the actual process by which the poem came into being, but an analogue of poetic creation as logos, a divine ' decree ' or fiat which transforms the Word into the world.

" In 1996, Rosemary Ashton claimed that the poem was " one of the most famous poems in the language " and claimed the Preface as " the most famous, but probably not the most accurate, preface in literary history.

In response, Southey attacked what he called the ‘ Satanic School ’ among modern poets in the preface to his poem, A Vision of Judgement, written following the death of George III.

Though the preface to the poem promises both joyous and dark tales ahead, the Nibelungenlied is by and large a very tragic work, and these four opening verses are believed to have been a late addition to the text, composed after the body of the poem had been completed.

* For the Train: Five Poems and a Tale ( by Lewis Carroll ; arranged poem order, wrote preface )

But the preface to the Franciade is a very fine piece of verse, far superior ( it is in alexandrines ) to the poem itself.

Since Piers was conflated with the author and dreamer-narrator of the poem at an early date, " Piers Plowman " or a Latin equivalent is often given as the name of the author, which indicates complete unfamiliarity with — or else silent incredulity toward — Crowley's preface.

Coleridge described how he wrote the poem in the preface to his collection of poems, Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep, published in 1816:

The impetus for the novel, as Fielding claims in the preface, is the establishment of a genre of writing " which I do not remember to have been hitherto attempted in our language ", defined as the " comic epic-poem in prose ": a work of prose fiction, epic in length and variety of incident and character, in the hypothetical spirit of Homer ’ s lost ( and possibly apocryphal ) comic poem Margites.

In the preface to the poem Young states that the occasion of the poem was real, and Philander and Narcissa have been rather rashly identified with Mr and Mrs Temple.

In the preface to his 1656 Poems, Cowley mentioned that he had completed three books of an epic poem on the Civil War, but had left it unfinished after the First Battle of Newbury when the Royalist cause began to lose significant ground.

In the preface Cowley indicated that he had destroyed all copies of the poem, but this was not precisely the truth.

Schoolcraft had written a romantic poem, Alhalla, or the Lord of Talladega ( 1843 ) in trochaic tetrameter, about which he commented in his preface:

Eliot considered using this already published poem as a preface to The Waste Land, but decided to keep it as an independent poem.