PREFACE

This book was written in 1918. The reader will at once perceive that I have left many important aspects of poetic imagery unnoticed. But since the ensuing study has seemed to contain a unity which would inevitably be lost by the introduction of new problems, I have presented my work in virtually its original form.

My warmest thanks are due to Professors George P. Krapp, Jefferson B. Fletcher, Ashley H. Thorndike and Charles Sears Baldwin, all of the Department of English and Comparative Literature in Columbia University, for aid which they have so generously afforded.