Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes, 1862-1932 / 2008-10-01 00:00:00

EBOOK ENGLISH POETS ***


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ENGLISH POETS
OF THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY


SELECTED AND EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY

ERNEST BERNBAUM
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS


1918


PREFACE
The text of this collection of poetry is authentic and not bowdlerized.
The general reader will, I hope, be gratified to find that its pages
display no pedantic or scholastic traits. His pleasure in the poetry
itself will not be distracted by a marginal numbering of the lines; by
index-figures and footnotes; or by antiquated peculiarities of spelling,
capitalization, and elision. Except where literal conventions are
essential to the poet's purpose,--as in _The Castle of Indolence, The
Schoolmistress_, or Chatterton's poems,--I have followed modern usage.
Dialect words are explained in the glossary; and the student who may wish
to consult the context of any passage will find the necessary references
in the unusually full table of contents. Whenever the title of a poem
gives too vague a notion of its substance, or whenever its substance is
miscellaneous, I have supplied [bracketed] captions for the extracts;
except for these, there is nothing on the pages of the text besides the
poets' own words.
Originality is not the proper characteristic of an anthologist, and in
the choice of extracts I have rarely indulged my personal likings when
they conflicted with time-honored preferences; yet this anthology,--the
first published in a projected series of four or five volumes comprising
the English poets from Elizabethan to Victorian times,--has certain minor
features that may be deemed objectionably novel.
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