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The acknowledgments in the preface to Thomas Hardy’s “Poems of the Past and the Present” (1901)
In his Preface to "Poems of the Past and the Present" (1901), Thomas Hardy thanks "the editors and proprietors" of a long list of publications "for permission to reprint from their pages" poems they had previously published. At least in the United States, this is now a conventional statement for