TO THE MEMORY OF CHAUCER, THE FATHER OF ENGLISH POETRY, THESE ESSAYS ON THE WORKS OF A FEW AMONGST HIS SONS ARE DEDICATED IN THE BELIEF THAT "We live by admiration, hope, and love, 1 Wordsworth. ADVERTISEMENT THE following Essays were contributed by me to the Edinburgh Review, the Quarterly Review, the Dublin Review, the North British Review, the Christian Remembrancer, the Nineteenth Century, the Month, the Irish Monthly, and the Catholic World. They are now collected, in a condensed form, with the kind permission of the Editors of those Journals. The "Characteristics of Spenser" appeared in the Rev. Dr. Grosart's recent edition of that poet's works; the "Recollections of Wordsworth" in his collection of Wordsworth's Prose Works. A. DE VERE. CURRAGH CHASE, 8th November 1887. |