THE ENGLISH POETS

T. H. WARD.

VOL. IV.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY:

WORDSWORTH TO TENNYSON.

THE

ENGLISH POETS

SELECTIONS

WITH CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS

BY VARIOUS WRITERS

AND A GENERAL INTRODUCTION BY

MATTHEW ARNOLD

EDITED BY

THOMAS HUMPHRY WARD, M.A.

Late Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford

VOL. IV

WORDSWORTH to TENNYSON

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1905,

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