and River by me FROM CHAUCER TO TENNYSON SELECTED AND EDITED BY ESTELLE DAVENPORT ADAMS WITH A NEW POEM BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE With Twelve Etchings PLAINFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY' READ LONDON GEORGE REDWAY MDCCCLXXXVII. HIS is a collection of lyrics and passages in English THIS Poetry on the subject of the Sea and Rivers. No attempt has been made to bring together every poetical reference to this topic for such a purpose a very much larger volume would be required. But the Compiler hopes that none of the most important references have been omitted. She has gone anew through the whole corpus poetarum, and has sought to reproduce, wholly or in part, the best of the verse devoted to Stream and Ocean. Every care has been taken to secure an accurate text, the latest editions being accepted as the authority in the case of living poets, while in that of deceased writers the standard editions have been followed. The arrangement of the letterpress is, as regards deceased authors, chronological; as regards the living, alphabetical. In general, the songs and extracts are limited to those which deal with the Sea and Rivers as natural objects, and are either descriptive or reflective. 3598 1135 839481 |