"Biographical and bibliographical notes" at the beginning of each volume.
Contents
v.1. The earlier poets. The Blackwood coterie, and earlier Scottish poets. The poets of young Ireland.--v.2. The poets of the first half of the reign. The novelist-poets.--v.3. The poets of the second half of the reign. The writers of vers de societe.--v.4. The pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. The ballad and song writers. The religious poets.