A

HANDBOOK OF POETICS

FOR

Students of English Verse.

BY

FRANCIS B. GUMMERE, PH.D.,

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN HAVERFORD College.

BOSTON, U.S.A.:

PUBLISHED BY GINN & COMPANY.

1903

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by

FRANCIS B. GUMMERE,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

PRESSWORK BY GINN & Co., BOSTON, U.S.A.