to arrange it in such a fashion that it may be
utilized in the classroom. I have therefore
ventured, in the Notes and Illustrations and
Appendix, to suggest some methods and
material for the use of students.

I wish to express my obligations to Pro-
fessor R. M. Alden, whose Introduction to
Poetry and English Verse I have used in my
own Harvard courses in poetry. His views
of metre have probably influenced mine even
more than I am aware. The last decade,
which has witnessed such an extraordinary
revival of interest in poetry, has produced
many valuable contributions to poetic theory.
I have found Professor Fairchild's Making of
Poetry particularly suggestive. Attention is
called, in the Notes and Bibliography, to
many other recent books on the subject.

Professors A. S. Cook of Yale and F. B.
Snyder of Northwestern University have been
kind enough to read in manuscript certain
chapters of this book, and Dr. P. F. Baum of
Harvard has assisted me most courteously.
I am indebted to several fellow-writers for
their consent to the use of extracts from their
books, particularly to Brander Matthews for
a passage from These Many Years and to

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