English sonnets by poets of the past

Waddington Samuel 1844-1923 Ed

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REESE .LIBRARY THEOF OF CALIFORNIA.UNIVERSITY Received Accessions No. _ _*No.^^C &/..? Shelf SONNETS.ENGLISH ENGLISH SONNETS BY POETS OF THE PAST EDITED BY SAMUEL WADDINGTON EDITION 1 Laborum dulce lenimen.' HOR. LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS YORK STREET COVENT GARDEN 1888 CH1SW1CK PKJUS6 . -C. WHITTINGHAM AND TOOKSCO., COURT, CHANCEKV KANE. 55 M/W/0 TO 2Dante (Kabrie VOLUME BY PERMISSION,THIS IS, preface. HE selection has been forfollowing prepared " as a volume topublication companion Eng- lish Sonnets Writers :" and it isby Living that in these two the onehoped anthologies, including of thethe authors Past and the other those of the Present, the whole of our best sonnet-literature will beEnglish found to be Several andfairly represented. poets sonneteers that have been in a few instancesomitted, somewhat fromstrangely omitted, selections,previous are for the first allowed to thathere, time, occupy space to which are so and from whichthey entitled,justly they have been driven of a lowerapparently by supplanters rank. The Editor would call attention to theespecially viii PREFACE. two sonnets Robert Burnsplaintive, yet noble, by (pp. : the first of62-3) which, beginning on, sweet the leaflessSing thrush, upon bough ; sweet I listen to strainSing on, bird, thy is one of the sweetest and of all ourmostsurely pathetic and of a in all futuresonnets, certainly deserving place other not included insonnet-anthologies.

Sujets

• Sonnet

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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REESE .LIBRARY
THEOF
OF CALIFORNIA.UNIVERSITY
Received
Accessions No. _ _*No.^^C &/..? ShelfSONNETS.ENGLISHENGLISH SONNETS
BY
POETS OF THE PAST
EDITED BY
SAMUEL WADDINGTON
EDITION
1 Laborum dulce lenimen.' HOR.
LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS
YORK STREET COVENT GARDEN
1888CH1SW1CK PKJUS6 . -C. WHITTINGHAM AND TOOKSCO., COURT,
CHANCEKV KANE.55
M/W/0
TO
2Dante (Kabrie
VOLUME BY PERMISSION,THIS IS,