THE PLAN OF THE WORK. general plan of the work has been to arrange together the chief poets of each century, and to add selections from the Minor Poets. The term Minor Poets is not always intended as a note of distinct inferiority. The order in which the passages are placed is not in every case strictly chronological. Note.-The selections in this volume from the works of Mrs. E. Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Carlyle, George Eliot, Lord Macaulay, and others, are made by the kind permission of Mr. Robert Browning, Messrs. Macmillan and Co., Messrs. Chapman and Hall, Mrs. C. L. Lewes, and Messrs. Longman and Co. |