The Canterbury Poets.
READY SEPTEMBER 25th,
THE
CHILDREN OF THE POETS:
AN ANTHOLOGY,
FROM ENGLISH AND AMERICAN WRITERS OF THREE CENTURIES.
EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION
By ERIC ROBERTSON, M.A.
This Volume contains contributions by Lord Tennyson, William Bell Scott, Robert Browning, John Russell Lowell, George Macdonald, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Theodore Watts, Austin Dobson, Hon. Roden Noel, Edmund Gosse, Robert Louis Stevenson, etc., etc.
London: Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] This and the following poems first appeared in the Etonian.
[2] This and the following poems were published in the Etonian.
I must confess that Dr. Swift
Has lent me here a little lift;
For when I steal some trifling hits
From older and from brighter wits,
I have some touch of conscience left,
And seldom like to hide the theft.
This is my plan!—I name no name,
But wish all others did the same.
[4] Two constant supporters of that instructive miscellany.
[5] First published in Knight’s Quarterly Magazine.
[6] Referring to a note by Bishop Monk on the Greek Play, “Facile persentibunt juvenes.”
[7] This poem was published in the Morning Chronicle of 19th July 1825, in reference to a meeting in promotion of the scheme for the London University that had been held at the London Tavern on the first of that month.
[8] Si mea cum vestris valuissent vota!—Ovid, Met.
[9] First published in Knight’s Quarterly Magazine.
