"English Poetry" in three volumes, with Introduction and Notes, The Harvard Classics Volume #40, 41, and 42, published by P.F. Collier & Son, New York, 1937.

Hard boards, original red cloth [a little soiled back board], gold lettering on spine, 5.1/2" x 8"; decorated endpapers, frontispieces with tissue guard, 1422 pages, nice cream-color paper, the first volume has a small dark stain on the backboard, the spine of the second volume is stained and the last 5 pages have a vertical fold [see photos], overall all three volumes are in very good condition.

"The aim in these three volumes of English Poetry has been to give, as far as the limits of space allowed, a substantial representation of the most distinguished poets of England and America for the last five hundred years... All the poems originally selected by Mr. Palgrave [Golden Treasury, 1861] have, accordingly, been retained, with the exception of those by Milton and Burns, which appear in the Harvard Classics in the complete editions of the poetical works of these two authors.

The larger scale of this collection has made it possible to ignore the limitation of most anthologies to lyrical poems, and to include a considerable number of long narrative and didactic poems. Thus we have been able to give the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the most vivid series of types of character to be found in any English poem; the Nun's Priest's Tale, one of the finest specimens of the beast fable; a large group of traditional ballads, including the almost epic Gest of Robin Hood; Pope's Essay on Man; Byron's Prisoner of Chillon; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Christabel; Keats's Eve of St. Agnes; Shelley's Adonais; Tennyson's Maud; Longfellow's Evangeline; and many others rarely found in mixed collections. All these poems are given, in accordance with the general practice in this series, in their entirety.

[Includes the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyan of Naishapur, by Edward Fitzgerald, and Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.]

In case of Chaucer and other older authors, and of poems in the Scottish dialect, the meaning of obsolete and rare words have been given in the foot-notes. The poems of each author will be found together; and the general arrangement is chronological. [from the "Introductory Note"]

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