THE

17226

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

ADDISON to BLAKE

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1880

[All rights reserved]

OXFORD:

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

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

THE ENGLISH POETS.

T. H. WARD.

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY:

ADDISON TO BLAKE.