The prelude to poetry
Subtitle: the English poets in defence and praise of their art.
Series: Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys.  Essays and belles lettres
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.; E. P. Dutton & Co.
Published: 1927
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Poetry.; English poetry -- History and criticism.
Notes: Title within ornamental border.

First issue in this edition, 1927.

"Everyman's library, by Ernest Rhys": 4 p. at back of book.
Table of contents: value: Introduction.; value: Geoffrey Chaucer: Invocation from The hous of fame.; value: Edmund Spenser: The perfect paterne of a poet.; value: Sir Philip Sidney: An apologie for poetrie.; value: Thomas Campion: Observations on the art of English poesie.; value: Samuel Daniel: A defence of ryme.; value: Ben Jonson: Poets and poetry.; value: John Milton: A school of poetry.; value: John Dryden: Heroic poetry and poetic licence.; value: Alexander Pope: The lyric style and a style of sound.; value: Thomas Gray: Metrum: observations on English metre.; value: Robert Burns: Songs and song writing.; value: Sir Walter Scott: On ballad poetry.; value: William Wordsworth: Observations and a passage on poetic diction.; value: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Wordsworth and the art of poetry.; value: Percy Bysshe Shelley: A defence of poetry.; value: Lord Byron: The present state of English poetry.; value: John Keats: The genius of poetry, and his own art.; value: Walter Savage Landor: Poetry without body.; value: Robert Browning: Shelley and the art of poetry.; value: Matthew Arnold: On translating Homer.; value: Robert Bridges: Poetry and poetic diction.