reflective poems. One often comes upon a difficulty of this kind when
attempting to classify a poem, and the truth is that several smaller
divisions are necessary if every production is to be placed where it
belongs. But while it is desirable to know whether one is reading a
lyric, an epic, or a drama, it is far more important to enjoy a
beautiful poem than to be able properly to classify it.

The following list may prove useful to those who wish to know more of
the poets represented in this volume than can be learned from the short
sketches of their lives which it includes:

J. R. Green: _Short History of the English People_; Stopford Brooke:
_English Literature_; Frederick Ryland: _Chronological Outlines of
English Literature_; Edmund Gosse: _A History of Eighteenth-Century
Literature_; _Dictionary of National Biography_ (British); G.
Saintsbury: _Dryden_ (English Men of Letters Series); James Russell
Lowell: essay on Dryden in _Among my Books_, vol. i; W. L. Phelps:
_Gray_ (Athenaeum Press Series); Matthew Arnold: essay on Gray in
_Essays in Criticism_, second series; James Russell Lowell: essay on
Gray in _Latest Literary Essays_; Austin Dobson: _Life of Goldsmith_
(Great Writers Series), William Black: _Goldsmith_ (E. M. L. Series);
J. C. Shairp: _Burns_ (E. M. L. Series); Thomas Carlyle: essay on
Burns in _Critical and Miscellaneous Essays_, and [Burns] "The Hero as
Man of Letters" in _Heroes and Hero Worship_; H. D. Traill:
_Coleridge_ (E. M. L. Series); T. Hall Caine: _Life of Coleridge_
(Great Writers Series); J. C. Shairp: "Coleridge as Poet and
Philosopher" in _Studies in Poetry and Philosophy_; James Russell
Lowell: "Address in Westminster Abbey, 7th May, 1885" [Coleridge], in
_Democracy and Other Essays_; A. C. Swinburne; _Essays and Studies_;
Walter Pater: "Coleridge," in _Appreciations_.