Lectures on the English Poets

CONTENTS. LECTURE I. INTRODUCTORY.-ON POETRY IN GENERAL. LECTURE II. ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER. LECTURE III. ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON. LECTURE IV. ON DRYDEN AND POPE. LECTURE V. ON THOMSON AND COWPER. LECTURE VI. ON SWIFT, YOUNG, GRAY, COLLINS &c. LECTURE VII. ON BURNS, AND THE OLD ENGLISH BALLADS. LECTURE VIII. ON THE LIVING POETS.