CONTENTS

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Introduction,[vii]
Lecture I, Definitions, [3]
Lecture II, Piers Ploughman’s Vision, [23]
Lecture III, The Metrical Romances, [39]
Lecture IV, The Ballads, [59]
Lecture V, Chaucer, [79]
Lecture VI, Spenser, [97]
Lecture VII, Milton, [117]
Lecture VIII, Butler, [135]
Lecture IX, Pope, [149]
Lecture X, Poetic Diction, [167]
Lecture XI, Wordsworth, [183]
Lecture XII, The Function of the Poet, [199]