Class Book of Poetry. Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and American Poets, from Chaucer to Tennyson. The Whole Arranged in Chronological Order, with Biographical and Critical RemarksReprint of the original, first published in 1875. |
Contents
CHAUCER Critical Notice 13 Prologue 17 The Knight | 18 |
SPENSER Critical Notice 33 The Red Cross Knight | 52 |
SHAKESPEARE Critical Notice 53 The Death of Prince | 68 |
VAUGHAN Early Rising and Prayer | 159 |
MILTON Critical Notice 161 Debate in Pandemonium 165 | 165 |
BUTLER Critical Notice 206 Expedition of Hudibras 206 | 206 |
DRYDEN Critical Notice 211 Argument for Revealed | 222 |
ADDISON Ode 229 Catos Soliloquy | 230 |
OPIE Song | 322 |
WHITE The Star of Bethlehem | 329 |
WORDSWORTH The Deaf Peasant 337 Sonnet | 339 |
CAMPBELL Soldiers Dream | 346 |
MOORE Youth and Age 355 Reminiscences 356 | 358 |
POLLOK Solitude | 369 |
TENNYSON The Victim | 397 |
AKENSIDE Critical Notice 304 Moral Beauty 304 | 304 |
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