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CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION.

PART FIRST.

POETRY AND THE DRAMA.

Page.

1

The Nature and Object of Poetry.

On the Utility of Poetry.

On the Laws which influence the Progress and Decline of Poetry.

On the Vicissitudes in the History and Progress of Poetry.

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History of the Drama.

139

Sketch of English Literature during the Reigns of Elizabeth and James.

Changes in the Character of English Poetry from the Reign of Queen Anne to

170

the present Times.

180

Comparison between English and French Poetry.

186

The present State of Poetry in England.

196

Sketch of Spanish Poetry antecedent to the Age of Charles the Fifth.

Sketch of the Lyric Poetry of Spain during the Age of Charles the Fifth.

200

212

Ancient German and Northern Poetry.

226

The Poetry of Russia, Batavia, Spain, Poland, Servia, and of the Magyars.

250

The Lake School of Poetry.

257

Examination of Miss Joanna Baillie's Plan of her Plays on the Passions

(No. 1.).

264

On the Subjects of Crabbe's Poetry.

271

Parallel between Rousseau and Lord Byron,

Scepticism of Byron's Poetry.-Strictures on the Fourth Canto of Childe

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