The design proposed. Objection to poetry as too
conversant with the passion of love—consider-
ed. Nature of verse, and pleasure universally
derived from it.

The first object, to habituate the ear to the melody

of verse.

described.

Pope's Pastorals: heroic measure

Windsor Forest. Ode for St. Ce-
Choruses to

cilia's Day: music of poetry.

Brutus. Elegy to the memory of an Unfortu-

nate Lady. Temple of Fame. Fable of Dryope:

Vertumnus and Pomona.

Tale: Cock and Fox: Flower and Leaf: Good

Parson: Theodore and Honoria: Cymon and

Iphigenia. Alexander's Feast.

Addison: Campaign: Letter from Italy: Poem
to Kneller: Hymns: Translations. Parnell:
Hesiod, or the rise of Woman: Fairy Tale:
Allegory on Man: Night-piece on death:
Hermit: Battle of Frogs and Mice. Gay:
Rural Sports: Trivia: The Fan: Shepherd's
Week; remarks on Pastoral: Ballads: Fables.

Swift; character of Familiar Poetry: Cadenus
and Vanessa: Poems to Stella: Journal of a
Modern Lady: The Grand Question debated:
Mrs. Harris's Petition: Baucis and Philemon:
Imitations of Horace: Verses on his own Death.

Return to Pope: Translation of Homer's Iliad
and Odyssey: Eloisa to Abelard: Rape of the
Lock; mock heroic; unworthy treatment of the
female sex Essay on Criticism: Essay on
Man: Moral Essays: Imitations of Horace :
Satires: Dunciad: Prologue to Cato.

Young, his character as a satirist : Love of Fame:

Paraphrase on Job. Elegiac measure: Ham-
mond's Love-Elegies.

On Blank Verse; compared with Rhyme. Mil-
ton: Mask of Comus: Allegro and Pensero-
so: Lycidas.

Imitators of Milton, J. Philips: Splendid Shil-

ling On Didactic Poetry: Cyder. Arm-

strong: Art of Preserving Health.

Fleece: Grongar Hill: Ruins of Rome.

Dyer:

LETTER XII.

p. 159.

Akenside: Pleasures of the Imagination: Hymn
to the Naiads: Inscriptions. Thomson: Sea-
sons: Liberty, &c.

Return to Rhyme. Gray: Ode to Spring: Pros-

pect of Eton College: Hymn to Adversity:

Fatal Sisters: Pindaric Odes: Progress of

Poesy: Bard: Elegy in a Country Church-

yard: Fragments. Mason: his Odes: Ele-

gies.

Collins his Eclogues: Odes. Akenside's Odes.

Smollett's Ode to Independence.

Laureate

Allegorical Poetry: Spenser's Faery Queen.

Imitations of Spenser: Thomson's Castle of

Indolence.

Shenstone's School-mistress.