Dating back to 1774, and published here in a reprint of the 1871 London edition edited by W. Carew Hazlitt, this work is the classic history of English poetry, capturing great amounts of material unique to this work and built upon in other histories. This edition was edited and revised by Frederic Madden, Thomas Wright, W. Aldis Wright, Walter W. Skeat, Richard Morris, and J. F. Furnival. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries, Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, and the Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College.