Literary Taste: How to Form It: With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English LiteratureBennett, Arnold
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Literary Taste: How to Form It: With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature
Bennett, Arnold
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MATTHEW ARNOLD, _Essays_: Everyman's
Library 0 1 0
Coventry Patmore, _Poems_: Muses'
Library 0 1 0
Sydney Dobell, _Poems_: Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
Eric Mackay, _Love-letters of a Violinist_:
Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
T.E. Brown, _Poems_ 0 7 6
C.S. Calverley, _Verses and Translations_ 0 1 6
D.G. ROSSETTI, _Poetical Works_ 0 3 6
Christina Rossetti, _Selected Poems_:
Golden Treasury Series 0 2 6
James Thomson, _City of Dreadful Night_ 0 3 6
Jean Ingelow, _Poems_: Red Letter Library 0 1 6
William Morris, _The Earthly Paradise_ 0 6 0
William Morris, _Early Romances_: Everyman's
Library 0 1 0
Augusta Webster, _Selected Poems_ 0 4 6
W.E. Henley, _Poetical Works_ 0 6 0
Francis Thompson, _Selected Poems_ 0 5 0
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£5 7 0
Poets whom I have omitted after hesitation are: Ebenezer Elliott,
Thomas Woolner, William Barnes, Gerald Massey, and Charles Jeremiah
Wells. On the other hand, I have had no hesitation about omitting
David Moir, Felicia Hemans, Aytoun, Sir Edwin Arnold, and Sir Lewis
Morris. I have included John Keble in deference to much enlightened
opinion, but against my inclination. There are two names in the list
which may be somewhat unfamiliar to many readers. James Clarence
Mangan is the author of _My Dark Rosaleen_, an acknowledged
masterpiece, which every library must contain. T.E. Brown is a great
poet, recognised as such by a few hundred people, and assuredly
destined to a far wider fame. I have included FitzGerald because _Omar
Khayyam_ is much less a translation than an original work.
SUMMARY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
83 prose-writers, in 141 volumes, costing £9 10 7
38 poets " 46 " " 5 7 0
__ ___ __________
121 187 £14 17 7
GRAND SUMMARY OF COMPLETE LIBRARY.
Authors. Volumes. Price.
1. To Dryden 48 72 £5 9 0
2. Eighteenth Century 57 78 6 8 0
3. Nineteenth Century 121 187 14 17 7
___ ___ ________
226 337 £26 14 7
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