The English Poets

Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers

Edited by Thomas Humphry Ward

This first great classic poetry anthology in five volumes contains 1446 selections by over 200 authors and features lengthy critical introductions by fellow poets and literary critics.

Bibliographic Record Preface

Contents

 Introduction by Matthew Arnold

NEW YORK, LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., 1880–1918
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2013

Vol. I.		Early Poetry: Chaucer to Donne
II.		The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden
III.		The Eighteenth Century: Addison to Blake
IV.		The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti
V.		Browning to Rupert Brooke