CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS C. F. CLAY, MANAGER London: FETTER LANE, E.C. Edinburgh: 100, PRINCES STREET Paris: THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY Berlin: A. ASHER AND CO. Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. Copyrighted in the United States of America by 2, 4 and 6, WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY All rights reserved THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE EDITED BY SIR A. W. WARD, LITT.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse THE PREFATORY NOTE HE late Mr D. C. Tovey's chapter on Gray, as well as the accompanying bibliography, reached us a very short time before his lamented death; and the proofs were not seen by him. Mr Tovey's contribution to this History represents his last labour upon a subject which he had gradually made his own, and with which his name will always be associated in the minds of all lovers of English literature, and especially of members of his own and Gray's university. We have to thank Mr A. T. Bartholomew, of Peterhouse and the University Library, for contributing to this volume the bibliographies to which his initials are appended, and for other assistance chiefly of a bibliographical nature. July 1913 A. W. W. A. R. W. |