H. T. GENKANS, WORCESTER COLLEGE,

OXFORD.

OXFORD:

BY E. PICKARD HALL, M.A., AND J. H. STACY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

THE ENGLISH POETS

T. H. WARD.

THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY:

BEN JONSON TO DRYDEN.

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

BEN JONSON to DRYDEN

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1880

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OXFORD:

BY E. PICKARD HALL, M. A., AND J. H. STACY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.