...e best English poetry of that day, as was true of the poetry of Tennyson and Browning at a later day, was earlier appreciated in America than at home. The volume opens with Burns's and closes with Coleridge 's , in its original and more vigorous form; and this at a time when Coleridge's new theory of versification, now generally accepted, that verse should be read by the accents, not by the syllables, w...