1789-1847
WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER America, 1806-1867
WINTER, WILLIAM America, 1836-
WITHER, GEORGE England, 1588-1667
WOLCOTT, DR. JOHN (Peter Pindar) England, 1738-1819
WOLFE, REV.  CHARLES Ireland, 1791-1823
WOOLSEY, SARAH CHAUNCEY (Susan Coolidge) America, about 1845-

WOOLSON, CONSTANCE FENIMORE America, 1848-1894
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM England, 1770-1850
WOTTON, SIR HENRY England, 1568-1639
WROTHER, MISS England,
YALDEN, REV.  THOMAS England, 1671-1736
YOUNG.  DR. EDWARD England, 1684-1765
YOUNG, SIR JOHN England,

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: 
  “AFTER ALL, WHAT IS POETRY?”
  By John Raymond Howard

PREFACE.

INDEX OF TOPICS, WITH CROSS-REFERENCES

LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

POETICAL QUOTATIONS

GENERAL INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES

GENERAL INDEX OF FIRST LINES AND TITLES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

ALEXANDER POPE Frontispiece After photograph from a portrait.

JOHN GODFREY SAXE
After a photograph from life.

JOHN DRYDEN
From an engraving after a painting by Hudson,
  in Trinity College, Cambridge, England.

SAMUEL, BUTLER
After an engraving from contemporary portrait.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
From an etching after a life-photograph.

VICTOR MARIE HUGO
After a life-photograph of Walery, Paris,

POETICAL QUOTATIONS

“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it....  We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates.”—­R.W.  EMERSON.

From “QUOTATION AND ORIGINALITY.”

ABSENCE.

  ’T is said that absence conquers love;
     But oh! believe it not. 
  I’ve tried, alas! its power to prove,
     But thou art not forgot.
Absence Conquers Love.  F.W.  THOMAS.

  Absence makes the heart grow fonder;
  Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
Isle of Beauty.  T.H.  BAYLY.

  Though absent, present in desires they be;
  Our souls much further than our eyes can see.
Sonnet.  M. DRAYTON.