THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 



English Poems. Selected and Edited, with Illustrative and Ex- 

 planatory Notes and Bibliographies, by Walter C. Bronson, 

 Professor of English Literature in Brown University. 



The Restoration and The Eighteenth Century 



548 pages, i2mo, cloth; school edition, net $1.00, postpaid $1.15; 



library edition, net $1 .50, postpaid $1.66 



This volume has already won a distinguished place in the 

 estimation of teachers and students of English poetry. Planned 

 primarily for college classes, it will be found a most convenient 

 and serviceable collection for the general reader. The poems 

 are so selected and arranged as to give a clear idea of the literary 

 tendencies of the period, as well as the most important work of 



individual poets. 



Especial attention is invited to the bibliographies and notes, 

 which contain in a small space an immense amount of interesting 

 and valuable information. 



The Nation. Professor Bronson's long experience in teaching literature 

 has familiarized him with the needs of the average student in the matter 

 of elucidations. More important, however, than his glosses of the text 

 are his extracts — as from Dryden's numerous prefaces— giving "the 

 poet's view of poetry in his own words " and the attitude of contemporary 

 critics. These passages are remarkably illuminating and offer in brief 



perspective. 



very 



The Nineteenth Century 



635 pages, i2mo, cloth; school edition, net $1.00, postpaid $1.15; 



library edition, net $1 .50, postpaid $1 .68 



Authors and poems have been chosen both for their merit 

 and for their significance in the history of English literature. 

 The book is therefore not an anthology, or collection of the best 

 poems. It is a collection of good poems that illustrate the 

 different periods and phases of the work of individual poets, and 

 the rise, growth, and decline of schools of poetry. Entire poems 

 have been given wherever that was possible, and the bulk of the 

 book is made up of them. 



Outlook. The excellence of the selection of individual poems is beyond 



dispute. 

 Journal of Education. This is an important contribution to the study and 



teaching of English verse. 

 World To- Day. The notes are unusually full and inspiring. 



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