Teks asli (Inggris)

p. viiINTRODUCTION. There could be but one answer to the suggestion of Mr. Coventry Patmore that his “Angel in the House” might usefully have a place in this “National Library.”  The suggestion was made with the belief that wide and cheap diffusion would not take from the value of a copyright library edition, while the best use of writing is fulfilled by the spreading of verse dedicated to the sacred love of home.  The two parts of the Poem appeared in 1854 and 1856, were afterwards el