Excerpt from Naturalism in English PoetryIN the winter term of the year 1902 the Rev. Stopford Brooke delivered at University College, London, a series of lectures on the rise of Naturalism in English Poetry, which met with high appreciation from large and distinguished audiences. They are here printed from the careful ms. Which Mr. Brooke always pre pared for his public addresses, with the slight verbal alterations necessitated by the change from the form of the lecture to that of the essay. These lectures are represented by the first seven chapters of the present volume. The remaining essays are also printed from the mss. Of lectures, not connected with the above mentioned course but harmonismg with it and com pleting it so fitly that the volume in which they are included may be said to present a coherent study of a particular epoch of English poetry - an epoch to which Mr. Brooke brought a special sympathy and a special knowledge, and which had a deep and still unexhausted in¿uence on English literature and English sentiment. Two of these essays, Shelley's Interpretation of Christianity and Byron's Cain, have been printed Since Mr. Brooke's death in the sbert journal, and thanks are due to Dr. L. P. Jacks for permitting their inclusion here. The rest are now published for the.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.