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El programa de Búsqueda de libros de Google ayuda a los lectores a descubrir los libros de todo el mundo a la vez que ayuda a autores y editores a llegar a nuevas audiencias. Podrá realizar búsquedas en el texto completo de este libro en la web, en la página http://books.google.com 1 This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com PTTox LIBRARY ;/ C> TV ''if I ft- THE ANNOTATED EDITION ENGLISH POETS. EDITED BY ROBERT BELL, AUTHOR OF 'THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA,' 'LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS,' no. LONDON: JOHN W. PARKER AND SON, WEST STRAND. T1J.5 ' I hold that no man can have any just conception of the History of England who has not often read, and meditated, and learnt to love the great Poets of England. The greatest of them, such as Chaucer, Shakspeare, Massinger, George Herbert, Milton, Cowley, Dryden, Pope, and Burns, often throw more rich and brilliant colours, and sometimes even more clear and steady lights, on the times and the doings of our forefathers, than are to be gathered out of all the chroniclers together, from the Venerable Bede to the Philosophical Hume. They are at least the greatest and the best commentators on those chroniclers.' — Sir Jama Stephen on Desultory and Systematic Reading. ANNOTATED EDITION Of THE ENGLISH POETS. necessity for a revised and carefully Annotated Edition of the English Poets may be found in the fact, that no such publication exists. The only Collections we possess con sist of naked and frequently imperfect Texts, put forth without sufficient literary supervision. Independently of other defects, these voluminous Collections are incomplete as a whole, from their omissions of many Poets whose works are of the highest interest, while the total absence of critical and illustrative Notes renders them comparatively worthless to the Student of our National Literature. A few of our Poets have been edited separately by men well qualified for the undertaking, and selected Specimens have appeared, accompanied by notices, which, as far as they go, answer the purpose for which they were intended. But these do not supply the want which is felt of a Complete Body of EnglishPoetry, edited throughout with judgment and integrity, and combining those features of research, typographical ele gance, and economy of price, which the present age demands. The Edition now proposed will be distinguished from all preceding Editions in many important respects. It will include the works of several Poets entirely omitted from previous Col lections, especially those stores of Lyrical and Ballad Poetry in which our Literature is richer than that of any other Country, and which, independently of their poetical claims, are peculiarly interesting as illustrations of Historical Events and National customs. By the exercise of a strict principle of selection, this Edition will be rendered intrinsically more valuable than any of its pre decessors. The Text will in all instances be scrupulously col lated, and accompanied by Biographical, Critical, and Historical Notes. THE ENGLISH POETS. An INTRODTJCTORY VOLUME will present a succinct account of English Poetry from the earliest times down to a period which will connect it with the Series of the Poets, through whose Lives the History of our Poetical Literature will be continued to the present time. Occasional volumes will be introduced, in which Specimens, with connecting Notices and Commentaries, will be given of those Poets whose works are not of sufficient interest to be reproduced entire. The im portant materials gathered from previously unexplored sources by the researches of the last quarter of a century will be embodied wherever they may be available in the general design ; and by these means it is hoped that the Collection will be more complete than any that has been hitherto attempted, and that it will be rendered additionally acceptable as comprising in its course a Continuous History of English Poetry. By the arrangements that will be adopted, the Works of the principal Poets may be purchased separately and independently of the rest. The Occasional Volumes, containing, according to circumstances, Poetry of a particular Class or Period, Col lections illustrative of Customs, Manners, and Historical events, or Specimens, with Critical Annotations, of the Minor Poets, will also be complete in themselves. As the works of each Poet, when completed, will be indepen dent of the rest, although ultimately falling into their places in the Series, they will be issued irrespective of chronological sequence. This arrangement will present a greater choice and variety in the selection from month to month of poets of different styles and periods, and at the same time enable the Editor to take advantage of all new sources of information that may be opened to him in the progress of publication. General Title-pages will be finally supplied for combining the whole Collection into a chronological Series. A Volume will be published Monthly, price 2s.6d. in cloth. DRYDEN'S POETICAL WORKS, Vol. I., was published on the 2nd of January. DRYDEN'S POETICAL WORKS, Vol. II., will appear on the 2nd of March. POETICAL WORKS OF HENEY HOWAED, EAEL OF SUEEEY MINOE CONTEMPOEANEOUS POETS AHD THOMAS SACKVILLE, LOBD BUCKHUEST EDITED BY ROBERT BELL LONDON JOHN W. PARKER AND SON WEST STRAND 1854 - I LONDON : .•HIM. AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CBANDOS STREET, COVE NT OrARDEIf . CONTENTS. HE1STRY HOWARD, EAEL OF SURREY. PiGB MEMOIK 7 DESCRIPTION OF THE RESTLESS STATE OF A LOVER, WITH SUIT TO HIS LADY, TO RUE ON HIS DYING HEART . 37 DESCRIPTION OF SPRING, WHEREIN EVERYTHING RENEWS, SATE ONLY THE LOTEE 40 DESCRIPTION OF THE RESTLESS STATE OF A LOVER . 41 DESCRIPTION OF THE FICKLE AFFECTIONS, PANGS, AND SLIGHTS OF LOVE 42 COMPLAINT OF A LOVER THAT DEFIED LOTE, AND WAS BY LOVE AFTER THE MORE TORMENTED 45 COMPLAINT OF A LOVES REBUKED 47 COMPLAINT OF THE LOVER DISDAINED 47 DESCRIPTION AND PRAISE OF HIS LOVE GERALDINE . 48 THE FRATLTY AND HURTFULNESS OF BEAUTY .... 49 A COMPLAINT BY NIGHT OF THE LOVER NOT BELOVED . 50 How EACH THING, SAVE THE LOVER, IN SPRING, RE- VIVETH TO PLEASURE 51 A Vow TO LOVE FAITHFULLY, HOWSOEVER HE BE KE- WARDED .