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

LIBRARY

BEHREND CENTER

London and New York

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1881

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