carry with them an ever-lengthening chain that binds them to the precious literary traditions of the race. Thus it is that that past becomes a warranty of the future of our art; and the art of the lyrist remains, like the gods, ever young and never dying. THE END BIBLIOGRAPHY THE following list of books includes some of the more important works that treat specifically of the lyric, or of the English lyric in general and in specific periods. Anthologies of English poetry, which commonly contain critical matter, are grouped correspondingly. For further bibliographical information and especially for the bibliographies of individual poets, the reader is referred to the works constituting the first group of the following list. A. BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND WORKS CONTAINING BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF THE LYRIC Carpenter, F. I., Outline Guide to the Study of English Lyric Poetry, Chicago, 1897. (A helpful bibliography up to its date.) Chambers, E. K., and Sidgwick, F., Early English Lyrics, Amorous, Divine, Moral, and Trivial, 1907. (Contains a valuable bibliography of MS. and printed sources, and critical material.) Erskine, J., The Elizabethan Lyric, 1903. (Columbia University Thesis; contains an excellent bibliography.) Gayley, C. M., and Scott, F. N., An Introduction to the Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism, 1899. (Contains much matter incidentally touching the lyric.) Miles, A. H., The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, 12 vols., n. d. (Contains much valuable bibliographical material, though unsystematically arranged.) Morley, H., English Writers, 1887-1895, 11 vols. (Contains good bibliographies up to the time of King James.) Reed, E. B., English Lyrical Poetry from its Origins to the Present Time, 1912. (Contains a useful bibliography, especially of the earlier periods.) Ward, A. W., and Waller, A. R., The Cambridge History of English Literature, Cambridge, 1907, 9 vols. to date. (Important alike for the text and the valuable bibliographies.) B. 1. WORKS IN WHICH THE LYRIC IS TREATED AT LARGE FOR ITS FORM, ITS NATURE, OR ITS PLACE IN LITERATURE Alden, R. M., An Introduction to Poetry, N. Y., 1909. (An exceedingly useful compendium.) Bénard, C., La Poétique par W. F. Hegel, Paris, 1855. Bradley, A. C., Oxford Lectures on Poetry, 1909. Brooke, S. A., Theology in the English Poets, 1874. Brunetière, F., L'Evolution de la Poésie Lyrique, Paris, 1895. Combarieu, J., Les Rapports de la Musique et de la Poésie, Paris, 1894. Corson, H., A Primer of English Verse, Boston, 1893. Courthope, W. J., A History of English Poetry, 1895-1910, 6 vols. Dallas, E. S., The Gay Science, 1866. Gayley, C. M., and Young, C. C., The Principles and Progress of English Poetry, 1904. Gildersleeve, B. L., ed. Pindar, 1885. (Introduction on the Ode.) Guest, E., History of English Rhythms, 1882. (Now largely superseded, first published in 1838.) Gummere, F. B., The Beginnings of Poetry, 1901. (A learned, full, and scholarly discussion of a difficult subject.) Gummere, F. B., A Handbook of Poetics, Boston, 1885. (A valuable compendium.) Gummere, F. B., Originality and Convention in Literature, Quarterly Review, Jan., 1906. |