Forgotten books and how to save them

On the Neglected Books site, there is a fine meditation on rescuing forgotten writers and their works from oblivion, and why this is important. As its author Brad Bigelow explains:

I have been searching for neglected books for over forty years and the one thing I can say with unshakeable confidence is that there are more great (and even just […]

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https://walledculture.org/forgotten-books-and-how-to-save-them/

The Missing Lines:

Though once I tuned my little song
On slender reed, before too long
I left the forest hills behind,
And lulled the nearby fields to mind
The eager husbandman, a pleasant
Profession for the simple peasant.
But now I sing of dreadful war:
Arms and the man from Trojan shore.

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