Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Lbased on the rules which regulate my own work at the moment, for many of which I claim no universal application and have promised no lasting regard. They have been suggested from time to time mostly by particular ems in the writing of my last two volumes of po [hesitating to formulate at present a comprehensiv ter-tight philosophy of poetry, I have dispensed with a continuous argument, and so the sections either stand independently or are in tended to get their force by suggestive neighbourliness rather than by logical catenation. The names of the glass houses in which my name as an authority on poetry lodges at present, are to be found on a back page.