STUDIES IN ENGLISH POETRY

"Poesy servcth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation"

BACON

WITH SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND NOTES

GONFIANDE
STUDIES IN
ENGLISH POETRY
Intended as a Text-book for the Higher Classes in Schools

BY JOSEPH PAYNE
@pio Lumen

OCT 1981

EDITOR OF

SELECT POETRY FOR CHILDREN

EIGHTH EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED

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