ENGLISH POEMS 
SELECTED AND EDITED WITH ILLUSTRATIVE AND 
EXPLANATORY NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES 
By WALTER C. BRONSON, Litt.D. 
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, BROWN UNIVERSITY 
, ‘HIS series of four volumes is intended primarily to afford college 
classes and general readers a convenient, inexpensive, and scholarly 
collection of the most important English poetry. 
The selections, so far as possible, are complete poems. The notes, | 
though concisely expressed, occupy nearly a hundred pages in each volume. 1 
They contain explanations of words and allusions which the average college 
student might find obscure; statements by the poet or his friends that 
throw light on the poem; the poet’s theory of poetry when this can be 
given in his own words; quotations which reveal his literary relationships 
or his methods of work; and extracts from contemporary criticism to show 
how the poet was received by his own generation. The last mentioned 
have proved particularly valuable and have contributed much t she 
remarkable success which the books have already enjoyed. The idee 
as now completed takes its place as the best general collection of English 
poetry that has yet been offered at a reasonable price. + 
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