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CONTENTS

LECTURE I.

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State of Poetical Literature at the commencement of the present century.
-The long mastery of the school of Dryden and Pope ultimately
modified by Thomson, Goldsmith, Cowper, and Burns.-The tem-
porary triumphs of Hayley, Darwin, and the Della Cruscans.
Literary tastes influenced by social changes.--Mathew Gregory Lewis,
and the supernatural school; its characteristics and peculiarities.—-
Kirke White and James Grahame; specimens of the manner of the
latter in Love of Country and The Covenanters.-The satirical and
humorous poetry of Canning, Frere, Gifford, Mathias, and George
Colman the younger.-Sketches of Bloomfield and Leyden.-Specimen
from the first, The Blind Boy; from the second, Apostrophe to
Aurelia. - Female writers of the period: Charlotte Smith, Amelia
Opie, (specimen, Forget-me-Not,) Mrs Hunter, Mrs Grant, and Mrs
Tighe.-Translators and Poets of the period less commonly known;
general estimate of their merits. - The Rev. George Crabbe; his
rise and progress; his originality. Specimens in Gipsy's Tent and
Lyrical Tales. - Samuel Rogers and Lisle Bowles; the high artistic
excellencies of the former.-Examples of his manner.-Controversy
regarding the invariable principles of poetry between Campbell, Bowles,
and Byron,

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LECTURE II.

The origin, progress, and tenets of the Lake School.

S. T. Coleridge,
Robert Southey, Lloyd and Lovell.-The Lyrical Ballads.-WID
Wordsworth as a reformer of our poetry; his peculiar vi
and excellencies; extract from Goody Blake and Her

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men. Barham and Hood. -Domestic Tragedy from Ingoldsby
Legends.-Theodore Hook, his amazing powers of improvisation.—
James and Horace Smith, Rejected Addresses.-Thomas Moore.-
Anacreon, Odes and Epistles, Satires, Lalla Rookh, Loves of Angels.
Irish Melodies.-Lines at Cohos.-The Young May Moon.-Burns
and Moore Man not cosmopolite; national poetry,

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LECTURE V.

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New phases of the poetic mind. - Leigh Hunt; Story of Rimini and
Miscellanies. Specimens, Funeral Procession, and The Glove.
Characteristics of the new school.-John Keats, Endymion, Lamia;
his untutored fancy. - Extracts from Eve of St Agnes, and Ode to
Nightingale: opening of Hyperion.-Percy Bysshe Shelley.-Alastor,
Revolt of Islam, the Cenci, Queen Mab, and Miscellanies.-Extract
from Sensitive Plant, A Ravine.-His quasi-philosophy condemned.
- Barry Cornwall, Dramatic Scenes, Sicilian Story. Marcian
Colonna, and Songs.-The Bereaved Lover; a Secluded Dell; The
Pauper's Funeral.-Robert Pollok and Thomas Aird.-The Course
of Time; extracts, Autumn Eve, Hill Prospect.-Aird's imaginative
poetry, The Devil's Dream.-William Motherwell; William Kennedy;
Ebenezer Elliot, Village Patriarch, and Miscellanies.-Thomas Hood.
-Eugene Aram, opening of it; I remember; Flight of Miss Kilman-
segg: Young Ben, a punning ballad,

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LECTURE VI.

PART FIRST

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Female constellation.-Joanna Baillie, Metrical Legends.-Love of Fame.
-Felicia Hemans.- Historic Scenes, Forest Sanctuary, Records of
Woman, and Miscellanies. Character of her poetry.-Specimens,
Dirge, The Trumpet, and Vaudois Hymn. Caroline Bowles, The
Widow's Tale, Solitary Hours, The Birthday, Robin Hood.-Analysis
of The Young Grey Head, with extracts.-Mary Russel Mitford,
Maria Jewsbury, Letitia Elizabeth Landon; Improvisatrice, Venetian
Bracelet, Golden Violet, Remains. Mary Howitt, the excellence of
her ballad poetry: The Spider and the Fly.-Caroline Norton: The
Dream, Child of the Islands, and Songs. - Lady Flora Hastings,
Harriet Drury, and Camilla Toulmin.-Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
her genius and its imperfect development: Drama of Exile, Cry of the
Children.-Professor R. C. Trench.-Elegiac Poems, Justin Martyr,

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