T. H. Ward, ed. 1880-1918. The English Poets: An Anthology in Five Volumes

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In the present work it is the course of one great contributory stream to the world-river of poetry that we are invited to follow.

—Introduction

Matthew
Arnold

The English Poets

Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers

Edited by Thomas Humphry Ward

This first great classic poetry anthology in five volumes contains 1446 selections by over 200 authors and features lengthy critical introductions by fellow poets and literary critics.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record Preface Introduction by Matthew Arnold

NEW YORK, LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., 1880–1918
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2013

Vol. I.   Early Poetry: Chaucer to Donne II.   The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden III.   The Eighteenth Century: Addison to Blake IV.   The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti V.   Browning to Rupert Brooke

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