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MELBOURNE

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THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.

TORONTO

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. I

CHAUCER to DONNE

NEW YORK

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1912