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A handsome mid-19th-century anthology of English and American poetry from the Romantic and early Victorian eras. It represents the Victorian-era appreciation for poetry as moral and aesthetic inspiration. Duyckinck?s arrangement and Willmott?s selections reflect contemporary taste, highlighting poets who were highly regarded at the time.This Harper & Brothers edition was a popular gift book and home library volume in the 1860s.ABOUT THIS COPY: Bound in a dark seafoam green textured cloth, it is profusely decorated in gilt ornamentation. All edges gilt. Butter yellow endpapers. Illustrated throughout with 132 engravings in black and white, "drawn by eminent artists" (title page). xvi, 616 pp. POETS INCLUDED ARE: James Beattie, William Cowper, William Hayley, James Hurdis, Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, William Crowe, Thomas Percy, George Crabbe, Mary Tighe, Ann Radcliffe, Anna Letita Barbauld, Hanna More, W. Lisle Bowles, Samuel Rogers, Amelia Opie, William Spencer, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keates, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White, Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana, Samuel Woodworth, Walter Scott, Thomas Campbell, Richard Henry Wilde, James Montgomery, Joanna Baillie, James Grahame, Robert Bloomfield, Ebenezer Elliott, Thomas Moore, Charles Wolfe, Allan Cunningham, Sidney Walker, James Hogg, Charles Sprague, Felicia Hemans, Mary Russell Mitford, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Reginald Heber, Robert Southey, Caroline Bowles (Mrs. Southey), John Leyden, John Clare, John G. C. Brainard, Edward Coate Pinkney, Clement C. Moore, Bernard Barton, William Sotheby, William Cullen Bryant, Joseph Rodman Drake, Fitz Greene Halleck, Horace Smith, George Darley, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Thomas Pringle, Walter Savage Landor, Joseph Blanco White, John Keble, Henry Hart Milman, Leigh Hunt, George Croly, Samuel Ferguson, John Moultrie, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Motherwell, Henry Taylor, David Macbeth Moir, Richard Chenevix Trench, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Fenno Hoffmann, George P. Morris, Ralph Hoyt, William Gilmore Simms, nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry Alford, William Makepeace Thackeray, Alfred Tennyson, Philip Pendleton Cooke, John Greenleaf Whittier, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Alfred B. Street, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Kingsley, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Thomas Davis, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bryan Waller Procter, Edwin Atherstone, Mary Howitt, Matthew Arnold, W. C. Bennett, Alexander Smith, Philip James Bailey, Sheridan Knowles, Gerald Massey, William Allingham, Charles Mackay, Frances Brown, Thomas William Parsons, James Russell Lowell, Maria Lowell, Alice Carey, Thomas Buchanan Read, Bayard Taylor, Richard Henry Stoddard, and William Allen Butler. CONDIION: External cover is moderately worn with a couple of wear through round spots on the front. Hinges are strong and the binding is sound. An antiquarian silk bookmark is laid in between pages 522 and 523, and has offset on the leaves. Pages have lightly toned and have very little foxing. Unmarked except for previous owner's antiquarian gift inscription: "Presented to George H. Barton Esq by the Pupils of the Mumford School - as a token of their regard, Mumford", dated 1866. A nice, antiquarian copy in a lovely binding. Full refund if not satisfied.
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