THE PRINCESS A MEDLEY BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON EDITED FOR SCHOOL USE BY CHARLES TOWNSEND COPELAND CCTURER ON ENGLISH LITERATURE IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND HENRY MILNOR RIDEOUT CHICAGO SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY PREFACE The editors of this volume wish to acknowledge their indebtedness to Mr. S. E. Dawson's Study of The Princess, to the memoir of "Alfred, Lord Tennyson" by his son, and to the editions of The Princess by Doctor William J. Rolfe, Professor G. E. Woodberry, and Mr. Henry W. Boynton. For further criticism of The Princess and of Tennyson's work in general, students are referred to Tennyson, by the Reverend Stopford Brooke; Literary Studies, by Mr. Joseph Jacobs; Corrected Impressions, by Professor Saintsbury; Victorian Poets, by Mr. E. C. Stedman; The Poetry of Tennyson, by Mr. Henry Van Dyke; and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, by Mr. Arthur Waugh. |