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

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1900

[All rights reserved]

First Edition printed 1880

Reprinted with considerable corrections 1883, 1889

Reprinted 1892, 1896, 1900

OXFORD: HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY