Excerpt from Six Centuries of English Poetry, Tennyson to Chaucer: Typical Selections From the Great PoetsThe extracts given at the beginning of each Century will serve to keep in mind the leading peculiarities which distinguished the poetry of each period, and the lists of poets and their works will be found valuable for purposes of reference. Llefore beginning the study of the selections both teacher and pupils should read this Introduction carefully.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.