THE ANNOTATED EDITION OF THE ENGLISH POETS. BY ROBERT BELL, AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA,' 'LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS,' ETC. In Monthly Volumes, 2s. 6d. each, in cloth. LONDON: JOHN W. PARKER AND SON, WEST STRAND. Already Published. POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, including the most complete collection of his Prologues and Epilogues hitherto published. Edited, with a Biographical Memoir, containing New Facts and Original Letters of the Poet, now printed for the first time, with Notes, Critical and Historical. Three Volumes, containing 904 pp. 78. 6d. POETICAL WORKS OF THE EARL OF SURREY, OF MINOR CONTEMPORANEOUS POETS, AND OF SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST. With Notes and Memoirs. In One Volume. 28. 6d. POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM COWPER, together with Illustrative Selections from the Works of Lloyd, Cotton, Brooke, Darwin, and Hayley. With Notes and Memoirs, and Original Letters of Cowper, now first published. Three Volumes. 78. 6d. SONGS FROM THE DRAMATISTS. With Notes, Memoirs, and Index. In One Volume. 28. 6d. POETICAL WORKS OF SIR THOMAS WYATT. In One Volume. With Notes and Memoir. 28. 6d. POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN OLDHAM. In One Volume. With Memoir and Notes. 28. 6d. POETICAL WORKS OF EDMUND WALLER. With Memoir and Notes. In One Volume. 28. 6d. POETICAL WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. With Memoir and Notes. Vol. I. 28. 6d. On the First of January, 1855, POETICAL WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. Vol. II. Annotated Edition of the English Poets. 'HE necessity for a revised and carefully Annotated Edition TH of the English Poets may be found in the fact, that no uch publication exists. The only Collections we possess conist of naked and frequently imperfect Texts, put forth without ufficient literary supervision. Independently of other defects, hese voluminous Collections are incomplete as a whole, from heir omissions of many Poets whose works are of the highest nterest, while the total absence of critical and illustrative Notes renders them comparatively worthless to the Student of our National Literature. A few of our Poets have been edited separately by men well qualified for the undertaking, and selected Specimens have ppeared, accompanied by notices, which, as far as they go, nswer the purpose for which they were intended. But these lo not supply the want which is felt of a Complete Body of English Poetry, edited throughout with judgment and integrity, nd combining those features of research, typographical eleance, and economy of price, which the present age demands. The Edition now proposed will be distinguished from all receding Editions in many important respects. It will include Le works of several Poets entirely omitted from previous Colections, especially those stores of Lyrical and Ballad Poetry which our Literature is richer than that of any other Country, nd which, independently of their poetical claims, are peculiarly teresting as illustrations of Historical Events and National ustoms. By the exercise of a strict principle of selection, this Edition ill be rendered intrinsically more valuable than any of its preecessors. The Text will in all instances be scrupulously col |