Excerpt from English Pastoral Drama: From the Restoration to the Date of the Publication of the "Lyrical Ballads" (1660-1798)For many suggestions I am indebted to Professor Margaret Sherwood, ph.d. (yale University), of Wellesley College, some of Miss Sherwood's eriti cisms and comments I have taken almost verbatim. To Miss Helen M. Cady, m.a. (wellesley), I am under great obligations for helping me in my bibliographical work at the Boston Public Library and in England.Iwish also to express my thanks to President Mary E. Woolley, m.a. (brown University), lh.d. (amherst College), to Dr. Curtis Hidden Page, of Columbia University, and Professor B. K. Young, of Mount Holyoke College, for their careful reading of the manuscript, and to Miss Clara Stafford, b.a., for her work upon the Index.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.