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Title: English Critical Essays
Nineteenth Century

Author: Various

Editor: Edmund D. Jones

Release Date: February 15, 2010 [EBook #31283]

Language: English

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The World's Classics

CCVI

ENGLISH CRITICAL ESSAYS
NINETEENTH CENTURY

OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON: AMEN HOUSE, E.C. 4
EDINBURGH GLASGOW LEIPZIG
COPENHAGEN NEW YORK TORONTO
MELBOURNE CAPETOWN BOMBAY
CALCUTTA MADRAS SHANGHAI
HUMPHREY MILFORD
PUBLISHER TO THE
UNIVERSITY

ENGLISH CRITICAL ESSAYS
NINETEENTH CENTURY

SELECTED AND EDITED BY
EDMUND D. JONES

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD

_The present selection of English Critical Essays (Nineteenth Century)
was first published in 'The World's Classics' in 1916 and reprinted in
1919, 1920, 1921, 1924 and 1928._

PRINTED IN ENGLAND AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OXFORD
BY JOHN JOHNSON PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

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PREFACE

The essays here brought together are meant to illustrate English
literary criticism during the nineteenth century. A companion volume
representative of Renaissance