REPRINTS FROM THE YALE REVIEW

A Book of Yale Review Verse, 1917.

War Poems from The Yale Review, 1918.

(Second Edition, 1919.)

Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne,

Emerson, Whitman, 1919.

(Second Printing, 1920.)

Milton’s Tercentenary, 1910.

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THE ELIZABETHAN CLUB OF YALE UNIVERSITY

ON THE FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED

IN MEMORY OF

OLIVER BATY CUNNINGHAM

OF THE CLASS OF 1917, YALE COLLEGE

THE

CONNECTICUT WITS

AND  OTHER  ESSAYS

BY

HENRY  A.  BEERS

PROFESSOR  OF  ENGLISH  LITERATURE  EMERITUS

YALE  UNIVERSITY

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