Victorian poetsRev., and extended, by a supplementary chapter, to the fiftieth year of the period under review . iBooli£f b^ ^r* ^tfDman* POEMS. New Hottschold Edition. With Portrait and , ^; cr. 8vo, full gilt, $; half calf, Is-oo; morocco, ortree calf, ^ Farringford Edition. With Portrait. i6mo, gilt top, ^; half calf,^; morocco, or tree calf, %^.oo. HAWTHORNE, AND OTHER POEMS. i6mo, FAVORITE POEMS. In Modem Classics, No. 27. same,75 cents. VICTORIAN POETS. i2mo, ^ ; half calf, $3-50. POETS OF AMERICA. A companion volume to Victorian Poets. i


Victorian poetsRev., and extended, by a supplementary chapter, to the fiftieth year of the period under review . iBooli£f b^ ^r* ^tfDman* POEMS. New Hottschold Edition. With Portrait and , ^; cr. 8vo, full gilt, $; half calf, Is-oo; morocco, ortree calf, ^ Farringford Edition. With Portrait. i6mo, gilt top, ^; half calf,^; morocco, or tree calf, %^.oo. HAWTHORNE, AND OTHER POEMS. i6mo, FAVORITE POEMS. In Modem Classics, No. 27. same,75 cents. VICTORIAN POETS. i2mo, ^ ; half calf, $3-50. POETS OF AMERICA. A companion volume to Victorian Poets. i2mo, $; half calf, $ In three vols. i2mo, gilt top, the set, $ ALLAN POE. With Portrait of Poe. i8mo, vellum, ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. An Essay. In ModemClassics, No. 12. 32mo, 75 cents. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Publishers, Boston and New York. VICTORIAN VICTORIANPOETS REVISED, AND EXTENDED, BY A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER, TO THE FIFTIETH YEAR OF THE PERIOD UNDER REVIEW EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN AUTHOR OF POETS OF AMERICA 1 8 ^^^^^^^S W ^^rjCyBLtoj^-jPi m M ^^^W^^^ i itwmMwm^ BOSTON AND NEW YORKHOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY /V Co o S^-^o O Copyright, 1875 3^ 1887,By JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. and HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. A// rights reserved. SIXTEENTH EDITION. PREFACE TO THE THIRTEENTH EDITION. (1887.) nr^HE origin of the book now presented in an enlarged-^ form is given in the Preface to the edition of it was an outgrowth, as stated, of a few essays eachrelating to a single personage, its main value, from theultimate point of view, consisted first in the statement ofwhat appear to me the true canons of imaginative art, asapplied to the office of the poet; again, in studies of thecreative temperament derived from sympathetic examina-tion of its possessors; and finally, in a record of the pro-gress of song during a noteworthy pe


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