A Preface to Eighteenth Century Poetry

Addison attitude ballads beauty better Biographia Literaria calenture century poetry Chalmers characteristic classical Coleridge conscious contemporary Cowper critics delight Discourses doubt Dryden Dunciad effect eighteenth eighteenth-century poet eighteenth-century reader Elegy Eloisa to Abelard emotions English poetry epic Epistle Essays experience expression eyes fact familiar fancy fashion feeling Gray Gray's heroic couplet Hobbes Homer human Ibid imagination imitations John John Dennis Johnson kind Lady language Latin less literary Lives Lord Metaphysical poets Milton mind mind-wandering mock-heroic nature never Nicholas Rowe normal NOTE o'er observed passage Pastoral perhaps period periphrasis Pindaric pleasure poem poet's poetic diction polite society Pope Pope's prose readers of poetry reason refined remarkable Reynolds Sarah Drew satire sense sort Spectator Spingarn stanza Stephen Duck Swift taste things thought tion to-day translation twentieth century verse Virgil words Wordsworth write written wrote