THE

ENGLISH POETS

SELECTIONS

WITH CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS

BY VARIOUS WRITERS

AND A GENERAL INTRODUCTION BY

MATTHEW ARNOLD

EDITED BY

THOMAS HUMPHRY WARD, M.A.

Late Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford

VOL. I

CHAUCER to DONNE

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1880

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OXFORD:

BY E. PICKARD HALL, M.A., AND J. H. STACY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY,

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26 MAY 1955

CERARY

THE ENGLISH POETS

T. H. WARD.

EARLY POETRY:

CHAUCER TO DONNE.

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