** * The Editors and Publishers of ENGLISH VERSE cordially acknowledge the kindness which has allowed them to print in it many poems, which could be so included only by authority of the owners of the American copyrights. The permission has been willingly granted in every case; and it is through this kind co-operation that it has been possible to make thoroughly comprehensive a Collection which must otherwise have been unduly limited in the field of American poetry. Besides their indebtedness to the living American authors whose names appear in these volumes, they desire to express their thanks to MESSRS. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. for their consent to the use of many poems from the long list of poets of whose works they are the publishers; to MESSRS. D. APPLETON & CO. for the use of poems by Bryant; to MESSRS. ROBERTS BROTHERS and JAMES R. Osgood & Co.; to MESSRS. J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co.; and to MESSRS A. C. ARMSTRONG & SON. |