THE

ENGLISH POETS

SELECTIONS

WITH CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS

BY VARIOUS WRITERS

AND A GENERAL INTRODUCTION BY

MATTHEW ARNOLD

EDITED BY

THOMAS HUMPHRY WARD, MA.

Late Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford

VOL. II

BEN JONSON to DRYDEN

NEW YORK

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1902

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