London: C. J. CLAY AND SON, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE. Cambridge: DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO. Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS. TO POPE AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES AND PHENOMENA OF THE RISE OF CLASSICAL POETRY IN ENGLAND BY William EDMUND "GOSSE CLARK LECTURER ON ENGLISH LITERATURE AT THE CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1885 [All rights reserved.] Soth. 12-1-28 17564 PREFACE. THE following chapters were written in the form of lectures, and were first delivered to members of the University of Cambridge, in the Hall of Trinity College, during Michaelmas Term last year. They formed my inaugural course as Clark Lecturer. In the month of December I read them at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and during the same winter, in whole, or in part, before other academic audiences in America, before the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in New York, before Yale College, Connecticut, and elsewhere. It has been no small advantage to me that among the distinguished listeners to G. b |