The Poets and Poetry of England in the nineteenth century. Second edition

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POETS AND POETRY OF ENGLAND. E_@IE.__]) 2_B"2"mC' IME i 'ilTI AND ; ' © ills w E i G. A' N UD _8V EUF5JS WOILM.©"? E!SD«®E,I). PH i I kP H 1 K\ \ fli' i A EfS¥„ THE POETS AND POETRY OF ENGLAND, IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. BY RUFUS W. GRISWOLD. A DRATNLESS SHOWER OF LIGHT IS POEST : 'TIS THE SUPREME OP POWER ; TIS MIOHT HALF SLUMBERTNQ ON ITS OWN RIGHT ARM. John Eeats. SECOND EDITION. PHILADELPHIA: CAREY & HART, CHESNUT STREET. MDCCCXLV. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by CAREY & HART, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Stereotyped by L. Johnson, Phila. PrLntea by T. E. & P. G. CoUins. TO WHILLHAM IPOTW ffiSQUJItlRIE, OF CHRIST CHURCH', OXFORD, AS the univeesally esteemed representative of her britannic majesty in ®j)e Jiiate of Pauijsjglfoanfa, WHO UNITES TO THE ATTAINMENTS OF A SCHOLAR THE FINEST SOCIAL QUALITIES, THIS VIEW OF THE MODERN POETRY OF HIS COUNTRY IS E__BPECTFOI_LY INSCRIBED