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To the editor of the Handbooks published by the Booklovers Library I owe my thanks for his kind permission to reprint the essay on The Poetry of Matthew Arnold, which originally appeared in the Handbook of the Greater Victorian Poets. For its publication in the present collection this essay has been carefully revised and corrected. The essays on the Personality of Johnson and on The Last Minstrel first appeared in the Booklovers Magazine, and I am indebted to its editor for.
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Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnExcerpt from Studies of a BookloverTo the editor of the Handbooks published by the Booklovers Library I owe my thanks for his kind permission to reprint the essay on The Poetry of Matthew Arnold, which originally appeared . Seller Inventory # 2147863606