Famous editions of English poets
xxi, 1,312 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 26 cm.
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William Shakespeare: Sonnets, 1609
John Milton: Poems of Mr. John Milton, 1645
John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, 1681; Alexander's feast, 1697
Alexander Pope: Essay on criticism, 1711; Windsor forest, 1713; The rape of the lock, 1714
Thomas Gray: Poems, 1768
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lyrical ballads, 1798
William Wordsworth: Poems, 1807
George Gordon Noel, lord Byron: Hebrew melodies, 1815; The prisoner of Chillon, 1816; Childe Harold's pilgrimage, canto the third, 1816
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus unbound, and other poems, 1820
John Keats; Lamia, Isabella, The eve of St. Agnes, and other poems, 1820
Alfred Tennyson: Poems, 1842
Robert Browning: Dramatic lyrics, 1842; Dramatis personÆ, 1864
"Every volume included...is a letter-for-letter, word-for-word, and punctuation-for-punctuation reprint of the early edition...We have provided a photographic reproduction of each title-page and of a representative page of type from each of the eighteen volumes. We have reproduced in facsimile all original illustrations, ornamental letters, etc., and have used imitative type for titles of poems."--Pref