Edited by WALTER C. BRONSON

ENGLISH POEMS

OLD ENGLISH AND MIDDLE
ENGLISH PERIODS

THE ELIZABETHAN AGE AND
THE PURITAN PERIOD

THE RESTORATION AND THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

AMERICAN POEMS

AMERICAN PROSE

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

THE BAKER AND TAYLOR COMPANY
NEW YORK

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED TORONTO

THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON

THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA
TOKYO, OSAKA, KYOTO, FUKUOKA, SENDAI

THE COMMERCIAL PRESS, LIMITED

SHANGHAI

AMERICAN PROSE

(1607-1865)

SELECTED AND EDITED, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE AND
EXPLANATORY NOTES AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cochrane.

BY

WALTER C BRONSON, LITT.D.
Professor of English Literature, Brown University