AND OTHER ESSAYS. 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.] 270. 444 PREFATORY NOTE. THE first, second, fifth, and sixth of the Essays included 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. EDINBURGH : April 1874. |