ENGLISH AND AMERICAN

POETS

A LABORATORY METHOD

BY

J. SCOTT CLARK, LITT.D.

AUTHOR OF "A PRACTICAL RHETORIC," "A STUDY OF ENGLISH PROSE
WRITERS," Etc., and professor of the english lanGUAGE

AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

"Le Style c'est l'homme."—BUFFON

"The whole art of criticism consists in learning to
know the human being who is partially revealed to us
in his written and spoken words."-LESLIE STEPHEN

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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