In the treatise before us, the author purposely confines himself to the domain of British or English lyrics, as distinct from American. So broad and rich is this lyric area, even within the specific province of the meditative, that this work only deals with a limited portion of it. Contents: Elizabethan meditative lyrics; Lyrics of: Edmund Spenser; Shakespeare; John Milton; William Wordsworth; Lord Byron; John Keats; Robert Browning; Mrs. Browning; Matthew Arnold; Lord Tennyson; Memorial lyrics; Devotional Lyrics.