Front matter

THE CONNECTICUT WITS

REPRINTS FROM THE YALE REVIEW

A Book of Yale Review Verse, 1917.

War Poems from The Yale Review, 1918.

(Second Edition, 1919.)

Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne,

Emerson, Whitman, 1919.

(Second Printing, 1920.)

Milton’s Tercentenary, 1910.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

THE ELIZABETHAN CLUB OF YALE UNIVERSITY

ON THE FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED

IN MEMORY OF

OLIVER BATY CUNNINGHAM

OF THE CLASS OF 1917, YALE COLLEGE

THE

CONNECTICUT WITS

AND OTHER ESSAYS

BY

HENRY A. BEERS

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE EMERITUS

YALE UNIVERSITY

NEW HAVEN

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD • OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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