This anthology gathers English poetry across six centuries, with selections from Tennyson back to Chaucer. Compiled by James Baldwin for classroom use, it combines representative poems with explanatory notes. It offers a helpful overview of English verse and its major poets.
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Transcriber's Notes: Some typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected. A complete list as well as other notes follows the text. Click on the page number to see an image of the page. Select English Classics SIX CENTURIES OF ENGLISH POETRY TENNYSON TO CHAUCER TYPICAL SELECTIONS FROM THE GREAT POETS BY
JAMES BALDWIN, Ph.D.
Author of "The Book Lover"
etc., etc.
SILVER, BURDETT & COMPANY
New York . . . BOSTON . . . Chicago
Copyright 1892,
By SILVER, BURDETT & COMPANY.
PUBLISHERS' NOTE.
This is the first volume of a series of SŧƯŧŕǵ EƿƄƯƗǪƒ CƯĵǪǪƗŕǪ which the publishers have in course of preparation. The series will include an extensive variety of selections chosen from the different departments of English literature, and arranged and annotated for the use of classes in schools. It will embrace, among other things, representative specimens from all the best English writers, whether of poetry or of prose; selections from English dramatic literature, especially of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; choice extracts from the writings of the great essayists; selections from famous
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