THE IDEAL WOMAN IN ENGLISH POETRY As I gave already in this class a lecture on the subject of love poetry, you will easily understand that the subject of the present lecture is not exactly love.

It is rather about love's imagining of perfect character and perfect beauty.

The part of it to which I think your attention could be deservedly given is that relating to the imagined wife of the future, for this is a subject little treated of in Eastern poetry.

It is a very pretty subject.

But in Japan and other countries of the East almost every young man knows beforehand whom he is likely to marry.