"The second of a series entitled Methods and materials of literary criticism, the volumes of which, though contributory to a common aim, are severally independent. The first volume (Gayley and Scott, 1899) was an introduction to the bases in aesthetics and poetics, theoretical and historical. The present volume applies the methods there developed to the comparative study of the lyric, epic, and some allied forms of poetry. A third volume, approaching completion, will present tragedy, comedy, and cognate forms."--Pref.