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The Bodley Head Anthologies

EDITED BY R. H. CASE

FLORILEGIUM LATINUM

VOL. II.

1

THE BODLEY HEAD
ANTHOLOGIES

English Epithalamies

By ROBERT CASE

Musa Piscatrix

By JOHN BUCHAN

English Elegies

By JOHN C. BAILEY

Florilegium Latinum

(Pre-Victorian Poets)

Florilegium Latinum

(Victorian Poets)

By Rev. F. ST. JOHN THACKERAY

and Rev. E. D. STONE

Nineteenth-Century Pastorals

By CHARLES HILL DICK

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GENERAL

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PREFACE

L375 1899

V. 2

MAIN

It was felt that justice could hardly be done to a representative collection of Translations from English Poetry like the present, if the specimens were confined to a single volume. The first instalment concluded with the period of Wordsworth and Landor. Through the unfailing help of many kind contributors, the second portion now continues the series to the close of the nineteenth century. This is not the place to define with precision what is meant by Poetry of the Victorian Age, or to estimate its distinctive characteristics. Versatility, great diversity of form, multiplicity of styles, expression given to the complex phases of our modern life—these are some of the more obvious features which distinguish the last thirty or forty years of the reign of Queen Victoria. As to the amount of production, it has been said that never has this England of ours been so full of song. It must be admitted that

the title "Victorian Poets" should be taken with

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