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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 Erasenose College, Oxford

VOL. IV

WORDSWORTH TO TENNISON

NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS

New York
MACMILLAN AND CO

and London

1894

[ All rights reserved

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COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY

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Press of J. J. Little & Co.

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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.