THE POETS:
AN ANTHOLOGY,

_From English and American Writers of
Three Centuries._

EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION,
BY ERIC ROBERTSON, M.A.

This Volume contains contributions by Lord Tennyson, William Bell
Scott, Robert Browning, James Russell Lowell, George Macdonald,
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Theodore Watts, Austin Dobson, Hon. Roden
Noel, Edmund Gosse, Robert Louis Stevenson, etc., etc.

LONDON:
WALTER SCOTT, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.

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Transcriber's Notes

Page 58: Corrected typo has'nt to hasn't:
(He has'nt any hair,--).

Page 61: Added a (probably missing) period:
(They looked very fine in the sweet summer weather.)

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