APPLETONS' LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH POETS.
Among the longer and most celebrated poems included in this work, many of which commonly fill an ordinary volume, and some of which are now scarce in any form, are the following :
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CHAUCER'S PROLOGUE TO THE CAN- TERBURY TALES. SPENSER'S FIRST BOOK OF THE FAERIE QUEENE. MILTON'S PARADISE LOST. DRYDEN'S ANNUS MIRABILIS. YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS. POPE'S RAPE OF THE LOCK, AND ES- SAY ON MAN. THOMSON'S SEASONS, AND CASTLE OF INDOLENCE. AKENSIDE'S PLEASURES OF IMAGI- NATION. GOLDSMITH'S TRAVELLER, AND DE- SERTED VILLAGE. FALCONER'S SHIPWRECK. COWPER'S TASK. BEATTIE'S MINSTREL. CRABBE'S TALES (nine). BURNS'S COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT, AND TAM O'SHANTER. ROGERS'S PLEASURES OF MEMORY. GRAHAME'S SABBATH. BLOOMFIELD'S FARMER'S BOY. WORDSWORTH'S EXCURSION. HOGG'S KILMENY. SCOTT'S LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL, MARMION, AND LADY OF THE LAKE. MONTGOMERY'S WANDERER OF SWITZ- ERLAND. COLERIDGE'S RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, AND CHRISTABEL. SOUTHEY'S TALE OF PARAGUAY. LANDOR'S GEBIR. JAMES AND HORACE SMITH'S RE- JECTED ADDRESSES. |
CAMPBELL'S PLEASURES OF HOPE, AND GERTRUDE OF WYOMING. MOORE'S ALCIPHRON. TENNANT'S ANSTER FAIR. BYRON'S CHILDE HAROLD, MANFRED, GIAOUR, AND PRISONER OF CHIL- LON. BARHAM'S INGOLDSBY LEGENDS (five). SHELLEY'S ADONAIS, AND SENSITIVE PLANT. KEATS'S EVE OF ST. AGNES, AND HY- PERION. HOOD'S MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG, AND HAUNTED HOUSE. POLLOK'S COURSE OF TIME. MACAULAY'S LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME. SWAIN'S DRYBURGH ABBEY. MRS. BROWNING'S LADY GERAL- DINE'S COURTSHIP, AND RHYME OF THE DUCHESS MAY. MRS. NORTON'S DREAM. TENNYSON'S MAY QUEEN. LOCKSLEY HALL, IN MEMORIAM, MAtID, ODE ON WELLINGTON, AND IDYLS OF THE KING (three). AYTOUN'S EXECUTION OF MONTROSE. MATTHEW ARNOLD'S SOHRAB AND RUSTUM. CHARLES KINGSLEY'S ANDROMEDA. JEAN INGELOW'S HONORS. OWEN MEREDITH'S GOOD-NIGHT IN THE PORCH, AND APPLE OF LIFE. WILLIAM MORRIS'S DEATH OF PARIS. ISA CRAIG KNOX'S ODE ON BURNS. SWINBURNE'S ELEGY ON BAUDE- LAIRE. |
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