A List Of Available Editions For The Study Of Important Authors
The author has in preparation an annotated anthology of poems from the popular ballads down, exclusive of long poems. In the meantime existing anthologies may be used with the present volume. The following list includes rather more of the other authors than can probably be studied at first hand in one college year. The editions named are chosen because they combine inexpensiveness with satisfactory quality. It is the author's experience that a sufficient number of them to meet the needs of the class may well be supplied by the college. 'Everyman' means the editions in the
'Everyman Library' series of Messrs. E. P. Dutton and Co.; 'R. L. S.' the
'Riverside Literature Series' of The Houghton Mifflin Co.
BEOWULF. Prose translation by Child; R. L. S., cloth, 25 cents. Metrical translation by J. L. Hall; D. O. Heath & Co., cloth, 75 cents, paper, 30 cents.
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT. Prose translation by Miss J. L. Weston, Scribner, 75 cents.
CHAUCER. Among numerous school editions of the Prolog and The Knight's Tale may be named one issued by The American Book Co., 20 cents.
MALORY'S MORTE DARTHUR. Everyman, two vols., 35 cents each. The Medieval Drama, Early Plays, ed. Child, R. L. S., cloth, 40 cents. 'Everyman and Other Plays' (modernized), Everyman, 35 cents.
SPENSER'S FAERIE QUEENE. Everyman, three vols., 35 cents each. Vol. I contains Books I and II.
ELIZABETHAN LYRICS, ed. Schelling, Ginn, 75 cents. Marlowe's Plays. Mermaid ed., Scribner, $1.00.
SHAKSPERE'S PLAYS. Among the most useful 25 cent editions are those in the R. L. S., the Arden series of D. C. Heath and Co., and the Tudor Series of the Macmillan Co.
JONSON'S SEJANUS. Mermaid ed. of Jonson (Scribner), Vol. II, $1.00.
BACON'S ESSAYS. R. L. S., cloth, 40 cents. Everyman, 35 cents.
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LYRICS, ed. Schelling, Ginn, 75 cents.
MILTON'S PARADISE LOST. Astor ed., T. Y. Crowell and Co., 60 cents.
BUNYAN'S PILGRIMS' PROGRESS. Everyman, 35 cents.
DRYDEN'S ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. In Satires of Dryden, ed. Collins, Macmillan.
DEFOE'S ROBINSON CRUSOE. Everyman.
SWIFT'S GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. Everyman. There are two excellent volumes of Selections from Swift, ed. Craik, Oxford University Press.
THE SPECTATOR PAPERS. Everyman, four vols.
SAMUEL JOHNSON. Selections, ed. Osgood, Henry Holt and Co., 50 cents.
BURKE. Selections, ed. Perry, Holt, 50 cents.
THOMSON'S SEASONS. Astor ed., Crowell, 60 cents.
MACAULAY'S ESSAYS. Everyman, three vols. Vol. I has the essays on Clive and Hastings.
CARLYLE'S SARTOR RESARTUS. Everyman.
RUSKIN. Selections, ed. Tinker, R. L. S., 50 cents.
ARNOLD'S CULTURE AND ANARCHY. Nelson and Sons, 25 cents.
NINETEENTH CENTURY NOVELS. Largely included in Everyman.Next