BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1895

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Copyright, 1895,
BY VIDA D. SCUDDER.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.

I. SCIENCE AND THE MODERN POETS.

1. THE MIGHT OF SCIENCE

Democracy, Science and Art

Evolution as Theme

Evolution as Influence

2. THE FORCE-IDEA

5. DANGERS AND SAFEGUARDS

"Lyrical Ballads " and its Promise

The Experience of Wordsworth a Prophetic

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