Books by PROF. RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN of Leland Stanford Junior University The Art of Debate xv+279 pp. 12mo. $1.12 net. A practical manual of argumentation and debating, sufficiently systematic to be serviceable as a text-book. Legal argument is taken as a means of approach to the treatment of such matters as burden of proof and evidence; and the classification of methods of proof is based on the exigencies of actual debate. Prof. E. N. Scott, University of Michigan: "It is a fresh and interesting treatment of the subject, packed with ideas expressed in a most delightful and taking away. English Verse WITH SPECIMENS ILLUSTRATING ITS PRINCIPLES AND HISTORY xiv+459 pp. 12mo. $1.25 net. Bliss Perry, Editor of the Atlantic Monthly: "It is a skillfully planned and admirably compact handbook. I know of no treatise on versification which is so well adapted for practical use in the classroom." Introduction to Poetry xvi+371 pp. 12mo. $1.25 net. A discussion of the theory of poetry, treating the various classes of poems separately, problems of the inner nature of poetry and the technical metric subdivisions. NEW YORK Henry Holt and Company CHICAGO TO POETRY FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE BY RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN, PH.D. PREFACE This book is to some extent a result of the kind reception accorded English Verse, a volume of annotated selections, illustrating the principles and history of English versification, which appeared about six years ago. Some who have made use of that book have felt the need of a treatise which should undertake to give a more extended account of matters of which the plan of the earlier volume allowed only brief mention in notes. And when it came to the point of preparing such a treatise, it seemed likely that similar needs would be served by including some account of the elements of poetry other than versification, so far as students of English literature have to analyze them. The present volume, then, differs from English Verse in three principal ways: it is more frankly dogmatic, attempting to state principles with some fullness instead of merely bringing together the materials for the inductive study of the subject; it includes a discussion of the imaginative and spiritual aspects of poetry, instead of limiting itself to verse form; and it omits altogether the historical treatment of the material, except where this is necessarily involved in clearness of definition. For the most part only such brief and simple discussion has been undertaken as |