THE CONNECTICUT WITS REPRINTS FROM THE YALE REVIEW [Illustration] _A Book of Yale Review Verse, 1917._ _War Poems from The Yale Review, 1918._ (_Second Edition, 1919._) _Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne,_ _Emerson, Whitman, 1919._ (_Second Printing, 1920._) _Milton’s Tercentenary, 1910._ PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ELIZABETHAN CLUB OF YALE UNIVERSITY ON THE FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED IN MEMORY OF OLIVER BATY CUNNINGHAM OF THE CLASS OF 1917, YALE COLLEGE T H E C O N N E C T I C U T W I T S AND OTHER ESSAYS BY HENRY A. BEERS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE EMERITUS YALE UNIVERSITY [Illustration] NEW HAVEN YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD • OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS MDCCCCXX COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS 1. The Connecticut Wits 2. The Singer of the Old Swimmin’ Hole 3. Emerson’s Journals 4. The Art of Letter Writing 5. Thackeray’s Centenary 6. Retrospects and Prospects of the English Drama 7. Sheridan 8. The Poetry of the Cavaliers 9. Abraham Cowley 10. Milton’s Tercentenary 11. Shakespeare’s Contemporaries THE OLIVER BATY CUNNINGHAM MEMORIAL PUBLICATION FUND ❦