OF THIS CENTURY

Edited and Arranged

WITH A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION ON

THE SONNET

BY

WILLIAM SHARP

Un sonnet sans défaut vaut seul un long poëme.

BOILEAU.

LONDON:
Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Rox,
AND NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE

1886

In the Autumn will be issued an Edition-de-Luxe of the SONNETS OF THIS CENTURY, large quarto, handsomely bound and printed in large new type on fine paper.

A limited number, extra size and on hand-made paper, will be available to early subscribers. Further particulars will be advertised later on in the Atheneum and elsewhere, but intending subscribers can at any time previous thereto have a copy or copies reserved by writing to the Publisher, 24 Warwick Lane, E.C.

(The Sonnet-Titles printed in italics are those of Sonnets which are incidentally or otherwise quoted in the Appendix.

Names prefixed by an asterisk are those of deceased writers.)

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*ALFORD, DEAN

i. Easter Eve. ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM

ii. Autumnal Sonnet
iii. A Day-Dreani's Reflection

iv. After Sunset ARNOLD, MATTHEW

V. East London vi. Shakespeare

vii. Immortality AUSTIN, ALFRED

viii. Love's Blindness
ix. Love's Wisdom
x. Unseasonable Snows
xi. A Sleepless Night.

Written in Mid-Channel *BEACONSFIELD, EARL OF

Wellington,

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