THE

ENGLISH POETS

SELECTIONS

WITH CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS

BY VARIOUS WRITERS

AND A GENERAL INTRODUCTION BY

MATTHEW ARNOLD

EDITED BY

THOMAS HUMPHRY WARD, M.A.

Late Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford

VOL. III

ADDISON to BLAKE

NEW YORK

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1903

[All rights reserved]

First Edition printed 1880

Reprinted with considerable corrections 1883, 1889
Reprinted 1892, 1896, 1900, 1902, 1903

OXFORD: HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY