and bewilderment. would not reassert in behalf of any verdict, least of all in behalf of my own, that "a foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity," it yet may be true that from this distance a reviewer can advantageously observe the general aspect of British poetry, whatever minor details. may escape his eye. As to the choice of field:- - while I In concluding this work, I wish to acknowledge my obligations to friends who have assisted me in its revisionto Professor Roswell D. Hitchcock, D. D., for valuable hints concerning recent hymnology; to Mr. Richard H. Stoddard, for access to his choice collection of English verse; to Messrs. William J. Linton and George P. Philes, for important data relating to the recent minor poets; and especially to Mr. Robert U. Johnson, of New York, and Mr. Henry H. Clark, of Cambridge, for careful and unstinted aid, at a time when, from prolonged illness, it was impossible for me to verify the statistical portion of my volume, or even to revise the proof-sheets as they came from the press. NEW YORK, July, 1875. E. C. S. VICTORIAN POETS. The subjoined list comprises those poets and translators designated in the following pages as belonging to the period under review. BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES, BALLANTINE, JAMES, BARHAM, RICHARD HARRIS, BARING-GOULD, SABINE, BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL, BENNETT, WILLIAM COX, BICKERSTETH, EDWARD HENRY, BLACKIE, JOHN STUART, BONAR, HORATIUS, BOTHWICK, JANE, BOWRING, SIR JOHN, BROWNING, ELIZABETH BAR RETT, COLERIDGE, HARTLEY, COOK, ELIZA, COOPER, THOMAS, COX, FRANCES ELIZABETH, CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MULOCK. DARLEY, GEORGE, DAVIS, THOMAS, DERBY, EDWARD, LORD, DE VERE, AUBREY, DOBELL, SYDNEY, DOBSON, AUSTIN, DOMETT, ALFRED, DOWNING, MARY, DOYLE, SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS, DUFFERIN, Countess of, ELLIOTT, CHARLOTTE, EVANS, SEBASTIAN. FABER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, GILFILLAN, ROBERT, GRAY, DAVID, GRIFFIN, GERALD. HAKE, THOMAS GORDON, HORNE, RICHARD HENGIST, HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH. INGELOW, JEAN, INGRAM, JOHN Kells. JONES, EBENEZER, JONES, ERNEst. KEEGAN, JOHN, Kingsley, Charles. LANDOR, Walter Savage, LYTTON, Edward, Lord, MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON, MANGAN, JAMES CLARENCE, MARSTON, PHILIP BOURKE, MARTIN, THEODORE, MARZIALS, THEOPHILE, MASSEY, GERALD, MASSIE, EDWARD, MCGEE, THOMAS D'ARCY, MEREDITH, GEORGE, MILLER, THOMAS, MILNES, RICHARD MONCKTON, LORD HOUGHTON, MITFORD, JOHN, MONTGOMERY, ROBERT, MORRIS, WILLIAM, MYERS, FREDERIC W. H. NEALE, JOHN MASON, NEWMAN, FRANCIS WILLIAM, NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY, NICHOL, JOHN, NICOLL, ROBERT, NOEL, RODEN. O'SHAUGHNESSY, Arthur W. E. PALGRAVE, FRANCIS TURNER, PLUMPTRE, EDWARD HAYES, |