A PLUME OF FEATHERS AND AN ALMOND TREE SELECTIONS FROM MARLOWE, WITH CRITICAL NOTICE THE JEW OF MALTA'S IDEA OF WEALTH A VISION OF HELEN MYTHOLOGY AND COURT AMUSEMENTS BEAUTY BEYOND EXPRESSION THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE TOWERING SENSUALITY. THE WITCH A MEETING OF WITCHES A CATCH OF SATYRS NOTICE SELECTIONS FROM SHAKSPEARE WITH CRITICAL NOTICE WHOLE STORY OF THE TEMPEST MACBETH AND THE WITCHES THE QUARREL OF OBERON AND TITANIA THE BRIDAL HOUSE BLESSED BY THE FAIRIES LOVERS AND MUSIC ANTONY AND THE CLOUDS YOUNG WARRIORS IMOGEN IN BED SELECTIONS FROM BEN JONSON, WITH CRITICAL NOTICE TO CYNTHIA; THE MOON THE LOVE-MAKING OF LUXURY THE POWER OF LOVE INVOCATION TO SLEEP MELANCHOLY A SATYR PRESENTS A BASKET OF FRUIT TO THE FAITHFUL SELECTIONS FROM BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, WITH CRITICAL Page. 95 96 SELECTIONS FROM MIDDLETON, DECKER, AND WEBSTER, WITH CRITICAL NOTICE FLIGHT OF WITCHES 150 158 SELECTIONS FROM MILTON, WITH CRITICAL NOTICE SATAN'S RECOVERY FROM HIS DOWNFALL THE FALLEN ANGELS GATHERED AGAIN TO WAR THIS book is intended for all lovers of poetry and the sister arts, but more especially for those of the most poetical sort, and most especially for the youngest and the oldest: for as the former may incline to it for information's sake, the latter will perhaps not refuse it their good-will for the sake of old favorites. The Editor has often wished for such a book himself; and as nobody will make it for him, he has made it for others. It was suggested by the approbation which the readers of a periodical work bestowed on some extracts from the poets, commented, and marked with italics, on a principle of co-perusal, as though the Editor were reading the passages in their company. Those readers wished to have more such extracts; and here, if they are still in the mind, they now possess them. The remarks on one of the poems that formed a portion of the extracts (the Eve of Saint Agnes), are repeated in the present volume. All the rest of the matter contributed by him is new. He does not expect, of course, that every reader will agree with the preferences of particular lines or passages, intimated by the italics. Some will think them too numerous; sc me perhaps too few; many who chance to take up the book, may wish there had been none at all; but these will have |
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