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. II

BEN. JONSON to DRYDEN

i Londoti
MACMILLAN AND CO.

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OXFORD: BY E. PICKARD HALL, M.A., AND J. H. STACY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY,

THE ENGLISH POETS

T. H. WARD.

THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY:

BEN JONSON TO DRYDEN.