The Editor wishes to express his thanks to Hallam

Lord Tennyson; to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co.; and to Mrs. Matthew Arnold, for the permission which they have kindly given him to print extracts from the poems of Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Matthew Arnold.

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) R. W. Church, Dean of St. Paul's

Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening the

Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth.

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[Miss Blackett] on her first Ascent to the Summit of Hel-

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Sonnets:

[The Gains of Restraint]

[On the Beach at Calais]

Composed upon Westminster Bridge.

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland

Milton

[The World's Ravages]

[The Throne of Death]

[The Shock of Bereavement]

To Lady Fitzgerald

On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford to Naples

[Past Years of Home]

SAMUEL ROGERS (1763-1855)

Extract from The Pleasures of Memory

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Ginevra

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850)

Ode, written during the Negociations with Buonaparte

Funeral Ode on the Death of the Princess Charlotte.

The Holly Tree

The Battle of Blenheim

Stanzas written in his Library

WALTER SCOTT (1771-1836)

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The Last Minstrel (from The Lay of the Last Minstrel)

The Camp (from Marmion)

Battle of Beal' an Duine (from The Lady of the Lake)

THOMAS CAMPBELL (1777-1844)

Hohenlinden

Ye Mariners of England

Battle of the Baltic

The Oneyda's Death Song

JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE (1769-1846)

Extract from The Monks and the Giants

LORD BYRON (1788-1824)

When we two parted

And thou art dead, as young and fair

Extract from The Bride of Abydos

Extracts from The Hebrew Melodies:

She walks in beauty

Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom

Extract from Parisina

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So we'll go no more a roving

Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa

Stanzas

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