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THE ENGLISH POETS

T. H. WARD.

VOL. IV.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY:

WORDSWORTH TO ROSSETTI,

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. IV

WORDSWORTH to ROSSETTI

Second Edition, Revised

London and New York
MACMILLAN AND CO

1893

(All rights reserved]

Press of J. J. Little & Co.

Astor Place, New York.

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850). . The Dean of St. Paul's

The Reverie of Poor Susan . . .

Expostulation and Reply . . .

The Tables Turned . .

Lines composed near Tintern Abbey

Lines written in Early Spring .

A Poet's Epitaph . . .

Lucy Gray; or, Solitude . .

Lucy . . . . . . . . . . .

The Two April Mornings : :

"The Fountain. A Conversation . .

There was a Boy . . .

Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening

Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth . . . .

The Green Linnet .

Yew Trees .

To a Highland Girl .

The Solitary Reaper . .

Yarrow Unvisited . .

To the Cuckoo . .

At the Grave of Burns

Thoughts suggested the day following

•She was a Phantom'

• I wandered lonely . . . .

Ode to Duty . . .

The Nightingale . . . . . .

The Mountain Echo. .

Ode. Intimations of Immortality . . .

Laodamia . . .

To — [Miss Blackett) on his first Ascent to the Summit of

vellyn . . . . . . . . . . .

Evening Voluntary .

Svenmg vonntary . . . . . . . . . . .

Extracts from the Prelude:

(Apparition on the Lake].

Morning after the Ball] .

[Defile of Gondo) .

[Ascent of Snowdon].

Extracts from the Excursion :

[Twin Peaks of the Valley)

(Mist opening in the Hills]

(Among the Mountains] .

[The Moon among Trees] . .

i The Sea Shell] . . . .

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