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. V BROWNING to RUPERT BROOKE New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1920 All rights reserved PREFACE The Fifth Volume of The English Poets deals with those writers who have died during the period that has elapsed since Volume IV was published in its original form—a period of nearly forty years. It may be remembered that to that volume in 1894 we added an Appendix, containing Selections from Browning, Matthew Arnold, and Tennyson. This Appendix was afterwards incorporated in the volume; and now, for the better convenience of readers, it has been detached from Volume IV and placed at the beginning of Volume V. This volume differs from its predecessors in the fact that nearly all the poems included, having been so recently issued, are still "in copyright." To the owners of the right we had therefore to apply for permission before we could publish; and we now gratefully express our acknowledgment of the permission so given. The detailed list of those who have enabled us to publish, and to whom we tender our thanks, is as follows: |