CONTENTS LECTURE I. - State of Poetical Literature at the commencement of the present century. Page 1 LECTURE II. The origin, progress, and tenets of the Lake School. S. T. Coleridge, Sketch; from Peter Bell; Sonnet at Killiecrankie; and portion of Skating Scene from Prelude.-Coleridge as a man of genius; his early magnificent promise.-The Ancient Mariner and Christabel : specimen, Youth and Age. Charles Lamb; extract from Forest Scenery.- Thalaba, Madoc, Kehama, Roderick, and the Miscellaneous Poetry of Southey specimens, Boyhood of Thalaba; Storm at Sea, from Madoc; Love, from Kehama.-Autumn Sketch.-Southey's amazing industry; his excellencies and defects. Walter Savage Landor; general character of his poetry. The Scottish poets of the period, more especially James Hogg and Allan Cunningham. · Extracts from Ballad Poetry.-The Revival of the Romantic School.-Sir Walter Scott; his poetry and the feudal system; his popularity and imitators; his nationality and transcendent genius.-The Lay-Marmion-Lady of the Lake-Lord of the Isles-Songs and Ballads.-Professor Wilson and Lord Byron: - Isle of Palms- City of the Plague - Fairy Legends- -Unimore. Extracts, Morning Picture-The Course of Grief-Thomas Campbell and James Montgomery:-The Pleasures of Hope-Lyrical Poems-Gertrude of Wyoming.-Early decline of Campbell's powers; his classical elegance and high standard of taste. -Specimens from O'Connor's Child, and Stanzas on Battle of Alex- andria.-James Montgomery's Wanderer of Switzerland-West Indies -World before the Flood-Greenland-Pelican Island-and Lyrics.- Extracts, The Sky of the South - Prayer. The legitimate aims of The succession of Lord Byron to the poetical supremacy.-The energy of his genius, and its different phases.-Childe Harold, Turkish and other Tales. - His Pantheistic views. -Extracts from Prisoner of Chillon; from Giaour; from Bride of Abydos; from Parasina; and from Beppo.-Verses to Mary.-Byron and Burns.-Bishop Heber, Palestine and Hymns.-Dean Milman, Dramatic Poems, and Samor. -Elegiac Verses.-Dr Croly, Paris, Sebastian, Gems from Antique.- Honourable W. Herbert, Icelandic Translations, Helga and Attila ; specimen, Northern Spring. William Tennant, Anster Fair and other poems; extract, Maggy Lauder.-Frere's Whistlecraft; speci- men. Barham and Hood. -Domestic Tragedy from Ingoldsby Page 160 LECTURE V. - - New phases of the poetic mind. - Leigh Hunt; Story of Rimini and - 209 LECTURE VI. PART FIRST - Female constellation.-Joanna Baillie, Metrical Legends.-Love of Fame. Poems from Eastern Sources, The Suppliant.-Thomas Pringle, John Clare, Bernard Barton, Thomas Haynes Bayley, Alaric A. Watts.- Specimen, Child blowing bubbles. -T. K. Hervey. Rev. Charles Wolfe. The Squire's Pew, by Jane Taylor.- Various other poets of Ballad-historic poetry.-J. G. Lockhart: Spanish ballads: his Napoleon. -T. B. Macaulay; Lays of Ancient Rome, Lake Regillus.-Profes- sor Aytoun; Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, Battle of Killiecrankie. Mrs Stuart Monteith, Mrs Ogilvy, Miss Agnes Strickland. Edward Lytton Bulwer: his poems and translations. Moultrie; stanzas, "My Scottish Lassie." poets of the period. Dirge by Mrs Downing. romantic school. -Alfred Tennyson; Ballads, Princess, and In Memoriam.-Specimens, Oriana and Stanzas.-R. M. Milnes and Dr Charles Mackay.-Robert Browning; Paracelsus, Sordello, Bells and Pomegranates.-John Sterling.-Philip James Bailey; Festus, The Angel World: extract, Dream of Decay. Mysticism and obscurity the pervading faults of our recent poetry. Concluding |