THE NATURE AND ELEMENTS OF POETRY With Frontispiece after Dürer, Topical Analysis, and Analytical Index. Crown 8vo, gilt top, $1.50; half calf, $3.00; half levant, $4.00. CONTENTS: I. Oracles Old and New. II. What is Poetry? III. Creation and Self-Expression. IV. Melancholia. V. Beauty. VI. Truth. VII. Imagination. VIII. The Faculty Divine: Passion, Insight, Genius, Faith. Index. Criticism so just and inspiring as his is a trumpet note to herald a new golden age of the poetic art. - Literary World (Boston). VICTORIAN POETS Thir With Topical Analysis in Margin, and full Analytical Index. The leading poets included in Mr. Stedman's survey are Tennyson, Landor, the Brownings, Hood, Arnold, "Barry Cornwall," Buchanan, Morris, Swinburne, and Rossetti. It also embraces very fully the minor poets and schools of the period, and with its copious notes and index forms a complete guide-book to the poetry of the Victorian era. We ought to be thankful to those who write with competent skill and understanding, with honesty of purpose, and with diligence and thoroughness of execution. And Mr. Stedman, having chosen to work in this line, deserves the thanks of English scholars by these qualities and by something more. The Saturday Review (London). One of the most thorough, workmanlike, and artistic pieces of real critical writing that we have in English. For the period covered by it, it is the most comprehensive, profound, and lucid literary exposition that has appeared in this country or elsewhere. ·Prof. Moses COIT TYLER, Cornell University. Mr. Stedman's volume is not merely good, but it presents the best view of the poets of the present generation in England that is anywhere to be had. ARTHUR GILMAN. With full Notes in margin, and careful Analytical Index. Eighteenth Impression. Crown 8vo, gilt top, $2.25; half calf, $3.50. A complete and critical review of the rise and course of Poetry in America. Mr. Stedman, in this work, has essayed to do for the poets and poetry of America what he did for those of Great Britain. in "Victorian Poets," now a standard in both countries. CONTENTS: Early and Recent Conditions; Growth of the American School; William Cullen Bryant; John Greenleaf Whittier; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Edgar Allan Poe; Oliver Wendell Holmes; James Russell Lowell; Walt Whitman; Bayard Taylor; The Outlook. The appearance of this book is a notable event in American letters. No such thorough and conscientious study of the tendencies and qualities of our poetry has been attempted before, nor has any volume of purely literary criticism been written in this country upon so broad and noble a plan and with such ample power. . . . Mr. Stedman's work stands quite alone; it has had no predecessor, and it leaves room for no rival. - New York Tribune. A VICTORIAN ANTHOLOGY Selections illustrating the editor's critical review of British poetry in the reign of Victoria ("Victorian Poets"). With brief biographies of the authors quoted, a fine frontispiece portrait of Queen Victoria, and a vignette of the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Large crown 8vo, 784 pages, gilt top, $2.50; full gilt, $3.00; half calf, $4 50. Any one who has studied that marvelously delicate and accurate critical review of British poetry during the reign of Victoria, by Mr. E. C. Stedman, will admit, without a moment's question, that there is no one on either side the Atlantic better fitted than he to edit an anthology of the period, which will give much more than a glimpse into the rich contributions which Great Britain has made, in the years 1837-1895, to the literature of the finest of arts, poetry. Mr. Stedman's "Victorian Poets" has deservedly become a standard, both in England and America, and his present volume takes its proper place as a companion book, illustrating with delightful and graphic charm the views of the critic. · Boston Advertiser. |