THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY

OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE

VOLUME XII

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

I

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THE

CAMBRIDGE HISTORY

OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE

EDITED BY

SIR A. W. WARD, LITT.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse