THE ENGLISH POETS SELECTIONS WITH CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS BY VARIOUS WRITERS AND A GENERAL INTRODUCTION BY MATTHEW ARNOLD EDITED BY THOMAS HUMPHRY WARD, M.A. Late Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford VOL. IV WORDSWORTH to TENNYSON ABINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1907 [All rights reserved] Library Penn State Ogontz Center First Edition 1880 Reprinted 1883, 1887, 1891, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1905, 1907 OXFORD: HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY Gef. 50 The Editor wishes to express his thanks to Hallam Lord Tennyson; to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co.; and to Mrs. Matthew Arnold, for the permission which they have kindly given him to print extracts from the poems of Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Matthew Arnold. CONTENTS. 35 37 38 Το [Miss Blackett] on her first Ascent to the Summit of Hel- |