DEDICATION. To J. H. REYNOLDS, Esq. DEAR REYNOLDS, Induced to this reprint by a series of Illustrations from the pencil of an Artist whose genius you highly estimate ;-remembering some partiality you have expressed for the Poem itself;-and, above all, that you stand nearest to me in a stricter form of the brotherhood which the Dream is intended to enforce ; I feel that I cannot inscribe it more appropriately or more willingly than to yourself. It will be accepted I know, with the kind feeling which is mutual between you and Your's ever truly, THOMAS HOOD. |