ENGLISH POETS FROM

CHAUCER TO TENNYSON

BY

OSCAR KUHNS

Professor of Romance Languages in Wesleyan University
Author of "The German and Swiss Settlements of Pennsylvania"

"A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with
the waters of wisdom and delight; and after one person
and one age have exhausted all its divine effluence, which
their peculiar relations enable them to share, another
and yet another succeeds, and new relations are ever
developed, the source of an unforeseen and an un-
conceived delight."-SHELLEY, A Defense of Poetry.

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LIBRARY

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1904

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Copyright, 1904

BY

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

Published April, 1904

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ROBERT DRUMMOND, PRINTER, NEW YORK

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Professor A. B. Faust

A GENUINE SCHOLAR, A COURTEOUS GENTLEMAN

AND A FAITHFUL FRIEND