The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays

by Henry A. Beers

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THE CONNECTICUT WITS

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REPRINTS FROM THE YALE REVIEW

A Book of Yale Review Verse, 1917.

War Poems from The Yale Review, 1918.

(Second Edition, 1919.)

Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne,

Emerson, Whitman, 1919.

(Second Printing, 1920.)

Milton’s Tercentenary, 1910.

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PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

THE ELIZABETHAN CLUB OF YALE UNIVERSITY

ON THE FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED

IN MEMORY OF

OLIVER BATY CUNNINGHAM

OF THE CLASS OF 1917, YALE COLLEGE

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THE

CONNECTICUT WITS

AND OTHER ESSAYS

BY

HENRY A. BEERS

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE EMERITUS

YALE UNIVERSITY

NEW HAVEN

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD • OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

MDCCCCXX

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COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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