ED

CRITICAL ESSAYS

OF THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY

THE MODERN

STUDENT'S LIBRARY

EACH VOLUME EDITED BY A LEADING

AMERICAN AUTHORITY

This series is composed of such works as are conspicuous in the province of literature for their enduring influence. Every volume is recognized as essential to a liberal edu cation and will tend to infuse a love for true literature and an appreciation of the quaities which cause it to endure.

A descriptive list of the volumes published in this series appears in the last pages of this volume

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

PREFACE

The texts of the essays in this collection are from authoritative sources, and the occasional omitted passages have been scrupulously indicated. Spelling and punctuation, however, have been normalized to modern usage, and quotations corrected without special remark.

The editor wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to the apparatus in Professor Albert S. Cook's editions of Shelley's, Newman's, and Leigh Hunt's essays on poetry.

Stanford University, California.

January, 1921.

R. M. A.