Footnotes have been moved to the end of the poem or extract in which they occur.

Variant spelling and use of accents, inconsistent hyphenation and capitalization are retained, as are English words spelt in the French manner. There are many words with irregular placing of the apostrophe in possessive plurals (e.g. womens’, Fishermens’) these have not been changed.

The changes that have been made are listed at the end of the book.

The table of contents has been created by the transcriber.