THE

CHIEF AMERICAN POETS

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BY

BRYANT, POE, EMERSON, LONGFELLOW

WHITTIER, HOLMES, LOWELL

WHITMAN AND LANIER

EDITED, WITH NOTES, REFERENCE LISTS
AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

BY

CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE, Ph. D.

Columbia University

BOSTON, NEW YORK, AND CHICAGO
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

(Tbr EtoewtUe Prctsc, Cambritop
. 1905

COPYRIGHT 1905 BY CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE
ALL HIGHTS RESERVED

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October, 1905.

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