Shelfmark
TG
Author
Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1848 - 1929 (Alfred Henry),
Title
The poets and the poetry of the century / edited by Alfred H. Miles
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Hutchinson & Co., [1892]
Physical description
10 v. ; 18 cm.
Note
Publication date from OLIS.
Note
Title pages printed in red and black.
Note
Publisher's green cloth case binding lettered in gilt, gilt top edge; untrimmed fore-edges.
Note
Includes first printing in book form of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Formatted contents note
Contents: I. George Crabbe to Samuel Taylor Coleridge.--II. Robert Southey to Percy Bysshe Shelley.--III. John Keats to Edward, Lord Lytton.--IV. Frederick Tennyson to Arthur Hugh Clough.--V. Charles Kingsley to James Thomson.--VI. William Morris to Robert Buchanan.--VII. Joanna Baillie to Jean Ingelow.--VIII. Robert Bridges and contemporary poets.--IX. Humour, society, parody, and occasional verse.--X. Sacred, moral, and religious verse.
Provenance
Ownership inscription of Michael Meredith on front flyleaf of vol. IV.
Provenance
Pictorial bookplate "Ex libris Richard Nicholls" in vol. VIII.
Copy-specific note
Made-up set.
Subject
English poetry 19th century.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Hutchinson & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B49885