THE ENGLISH POETS

T. H. WARD.

VOL. IV.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY:

WORDSWORTH TO TENNYSON.

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. IV

WORDSWORTH to TENNYSON

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

1900

[All rights reserved]

Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1880

Reprinted 1883, 1887, 1891; with additions, 1894; reprinted 1895, 1897

1898, 1900

The Editor wishes to express his thanks to Hallam Lord Tennyson; to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co.; and to Mrs. Matthew Arnold, for the permission which they have kindly given him to print extracts from the poems of Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Matthew Arnold.