ESSAYS MODERN AND ELIZABETHAN

1·28.2 MB·English

by  DOWDEN, EDWARD

ESSAYS: MODERN
& ELIZABETHAN

ESSAYS MODERN AND

ELIZABETHAN BY
EDWARD DOWDEN

Professor of English Literature in the Unsversity of Dublin

LL.D, D.C.L, Lrrr.D.

MCMX LONDON
J. M DENT & SONS L&D
NEW YORK: E, P, DUTTON & CO.
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PREFACE

TAs contents of this volume, with the exception
.of the notice of the Countess of Winchilsea’s
‘unpublished poems, have already appeared in print.
I thank the editors of The Contemporary Review,
‘The National Review, The Fortnightly Review, The
’ Atlantic Monthly, The Nineteenth Century and After,
for permission to republish various articles; the
;Royal Society of Literature for permission to
swepublish ‘‘Some Old Shakespearians”; the
‘Delegates of the Clarendon Press for permission
o republish the study of ‘“ Hermann and
Dorothea.”