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STUDIES IN POETRY AND

CRITICISM

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS

PORTUGAL ST. LINCOLN'S INN, W.C. CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL & CO. NEW YORK:

THE MACMILLAN CO. BOMBAY : A. H. WHEELER & Co.

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STUDIES IN POETRY AND

CRITICISM

BY

JOHN CHURTON COLLINS

(PROFESSOR Of English LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF BIRMINGHAM)

μαλακὰ μὲν φρονέων ἐσλοῖς
τραχὺς δὲ παλιγκότοις ἔφεδρος

PINDAR

LONDON

- GEORGE BELL AND SONS

1905

CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.

TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

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SIR OLIVER LODGE,

WHOSE SYMPATHIES EXTEND EVEN TO TRIFLES

LIKE THESE, THIS VOLUME

IS INSCRIBED.