English Verse - Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

Project Gutenberg's English Verse, by Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Author: Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D. Release Date: May 5, 2010 [EBook #32262] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ENGLISH VERSE *** Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Louise Pattison and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Pg ii] ENGLISH VERSE SPECIMENS ILLUSTRATING ITS PRINCIPLES AND HISTORY CHOSEN AND EDITED BY RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN, PH.D. Associate Professor in Leland Stanford Junior University NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY [Pg iii]Copyright, 1903, BY HENRY HOLT & CO. [Pg iv]TO my Father and Mother WHO HAVE GIVEN BOTH THE INSPIRATION AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL MY STUDIES [Pg v]PREFACE The aim of this book is to give the materials for the inductive study of English verse. Its origin was in certain university courses, for which it proved to be necessary—often for use in a single hour's work—to gather almost numberless books, some of which must ordinarily be inaccessible except in the vicinity of large libraries.