The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years

by Elizabeth Atkins

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Phil McLaury, Charles Franks,

and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

THE POET'S POET

Essays on the Character and Mission of the Poet As Interpreted in
English Verse of the Last One Hundred and Fifty Years

By

ELIZABETH ATKINS, PH.D.

Instructor in English, University of Minnesota

TO

HARTLEY AND NELLY ALEXANDER

PREFACE