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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The Mountain Echo.

Ode. Intimations of Immortality

To [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

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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Thalaba

Kehama

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Ode, written during the Negociations with Buonaparte

Funeral Ode on the Death of the Princess Charlotte.

The Holly Tree

Stanzas written in his Library

WALTER SCOTT (1771-1836)

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)

So we'll go no more a roving

Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa

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