Edited by JOHN DENNIS. "Fortunatus et ille, Deos qui novit agrestes, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 14942 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1897. LONDON: RICHARD BARRETT, PRINTER, MARK LANE. CONTENTS. Hartley opens his Chaucer-A discussion about Chaucer's Eng- PAGE A drive through Exmoor Forest-Shakspeare's dramas deficient in rural passages-Extracts from his plays-His love of nature subordinate to higher feelings-His description of natural objects-His female characters-Collins's opinion of them, and Sir Walter Scott's-Men of genius not often good critics-Michael Drayton, his poetry and his fame--A sonnet |