Download or read book Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies, and Songs, written by Charlotte Brooke and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface: "It is impossible for imagination to conceive too highly of the pitch of excellence to which a science must have soared which was cherished with such enthusiastic regard and cultivation as that of poetry, in this country. It was absolutely, for ages, the vital soul of the nation; and shall we then have no curiosity respecting the productions of genius once so celebrated, and so prized?"