The Beginnings of Poetry

THE
BEGINNINGS OF POETRY
FRANCIS B. GUMMERE
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN HAVERFORD COLLEGE
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1908
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Copyright, 1901,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1901. Reprinted