BY THE SAME AUTHOR. THE LATE REV. F. W. ROBERTSON, M.A., LIFE AND I. In 2 vols., uniform with the Sermons. Price 78. 6d. III. A Popular Edition, in 1 vol. 6s. Fourteenth and Cheaper Edition. CHRIST IN MODERN LIFE. Sermons Preached in St. Eleventh Edition. Crown 8vo. 58. SERMONS. First Series. Crown 8vo, cloth. Price 6s. Third Edition. SERMONS. Second Series. Crown 8vo. Price 78. Third Edition. THE FIGHT OF FAITH. Sermons preached on various occasions. Crown 8vo, cloth. Price 7s. 6d. FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE: The Life and Work of. A Memorial Sermon. Crown Svo, sewed. Price 1s. SERMON Preached at Bedford Chapel, London, June 23rd, 1878, in Aid of the College for Men and Women, Queen's Square, Bloomsbury. Sewed. Price 6d. LONDON: C. KEGAN PAUL & Co., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. 21608 THEOLOGY IN THE ENGLISH POETS. COWPER-COLERIDGE-WORDSWORTH BY THE REV. STOPFORD A BROOKE, M.A., CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN; MINISTER FOURTH EDITION. LONDON: C. KEGAN PAUL & Co., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE, 1880. PREFACE. THE Lectures contained in this Volume were delivered on Sunday afternoons in St. James's Chapel, during the season of 1872. Others, on Blake, Shelley, Keats and Byron, delivered in 1873, will be published, I hope, before the close of this year. The thing was an experiment. I began it in May 1871, when I asked the Rev. J. M. Capes to deliver a course of lectures for me, which should not take the form of sermons, but, on the contrary, should avoid it. He chose as his subject the Inner Life of the Romish Church, and afterwards the Relation of Music to Religion. When he had finished his lectures on these subjects, which were as well attended as they eminently deserved to be, I began another course on Theology in the English Poets, which I have continued to the present time. Since I began to carry out the experiment in 1871, the lectures on week-days in St. |