BY AMERICAN POETS

WITH

AN ESSAY ON THE SONNET, ITS NATURE AND
HISTORY, INCLUDING MANY NOTABLE

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1890

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.

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This Work

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

ΤΟ

THE MEMORY OF MY WIFE,

KATHERINE,

WHO RENDERED LOVING ASSISTANCE

IN ITS PREPARATION.