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THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WATSON, PUBLISHED BY JOHN LANE, AT THE BODLEY HEAD, 67 VTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
The Collected Poems of William Watson, with photogravure portrait of the author as frontispiece. Designed cover. 12mo. $2.50. This volume includes the work contained in the author's volumes, "Poems," "Lachrymæ Musarum," "Odes, and Other Poems," "The Father of the Forest, and Other Poems," "The Year of Shame," and "The Hope of the World, and Other Poems," with the exception of a few poems excluded by the author.
The London Daily Chronicle says: "As we look through this collected edition of his work we feel confirmed in our belief that whatever his limitations, and they are not few, it is Mr Watson's function and his glory to hand on, in this generation, the great classical tradition of English poetry. On the threshold of the twentieth century he reconciles and brings to a common denominator, as it were, the best qualities of eighteenth-century and of nineteenth-century verse. He is the heir no less of Dryden than of Tennyson; it is hard to say whether Keats or Pope has more potentially influenced him. There is significance in the fact that his favorite instrument, which he fingers with the utmost mastery, is the classic instrument of the English Muse—the iambic pentameter. Pregnant, resonant, memorable lines flow inexhaustibly from his pen; and some of them, we venture to predict, will live with the language."
The following separate Volumes by Mr. William Watson may still be had:
The Prince's Quest, and Other Poems. $1.50.	[Third edition
Poems. $1.25.	[Fifth edition
Lachrymæ Musarum. $1.25.	[Fourth edition
The Eloping Angels. $1.25.	[Second edition
Odes, and Other Poems. $1.50.	[Fifth edition
The Father of the Forest, and Other Poems. $1.25.	[Fifth edition
The Purple East. $0.50.	[Third edition
The Year of Shame. $1.00.	[Second edition
The Hope of the World, and Other Poems. $1.25.	[Third edition
Excursions in Criticism. $1.50.	[Second edition