WORDSWORTH, SHELLEY, KEATS,

AND

OTHER ESSAYS.

AND

OTHER

OTHER ESSAY S.

BY

DAVID MASSON, M.A., LL.D.,

Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh.

London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.

1874.

(The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved.]

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LONDON:

R. CLAY, BONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,

BREAD STREET HILL.

PREFATORY NOTE.

The first, second, fifth, and sixth of the Essays in

cluded in the present volume are reprinted from a volume published by the Author in 1856 under the title Essays Biographical and Critical : chiefly on

English Poets.

The Essays on Shelley and Keats

are

now added.

Two similar volumes of revised

Essays will follow; the next of which will be

Chatterton: A Story of the Year 1770.

EDINBURGI :

April 1874.