POETS AND POETRY

OF

ENGLAND,

IN

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

· BY

RUFUS W GRISWOLD.

A DRAINLESS SHOWER

OF LIGHT IS POESY: TIS THE SUPREME OF POWER;

"TIS MIGHT HALF SLUMBERING ON ITS OWN RIGHT ARM.

JOHN KEATS.

PHILADELPHIA:

CAREY & HART, CHESNUT STREET.

MDCCCXLV.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by

CAREY & HART,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Stereotyped by L. Johnson, Phila.

Printed by T. K. & P. G. Collins.

ΤΟ

WILLIAM PETER, ESQUIRE,

OF

CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD,

AS

THE UNIVERSALLY ESTEEMED REPRESENTATIVE OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY

IN

The State of Pennsania,

WHO UNITES TO THE ATTAINMENTS OF A SCHOLAR

THE FINEST SOCIAL QUALITIES,

THIS VIEW

THE MODERN POETRY OF HIS COUNTRY

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