Two hundred and twenty-four copies printed in the month of March, 1897.
This is No.
LECTURES
ON
ENGLISH POETS
BY
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
“—CALL UP HIM WHO LEFT HALF-TOLD
THE STORY OF CAMBUSCAN BOLD.”
CLEVELAND
THE ROWFANT CLUB
MDCCCXCVII
Copyright, 1897,
By The Rowfant Club.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| 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] |