GRIERSON, H. J. C.

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Lyrical Poetry from Blake to Hardy. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the month of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Professor Samuel C. Chew, Bryn Mawr, a very small token of his respect and regard, H. J. C. Grierson, 12.11.28".Samuel Claggett Chew (1888-1960) was, like Grierson, a scholar of 19th-century literature, who worked as professor of English literature at Bryn Mawr College from 1914 to 1954. His works include Byron in England (1924), Thomas Hardy, Poet and Novelist (1921), and Chief Romantic Poets (1950). Grierson also published a book-length studies of Byron, and edited an important edition of John Donne's poems, credited with promoting a renewed interest in the poet; the present work is his extensive survey of "the lyrical, subjective strain in nineteenth-century poetry" (p. 10).

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