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CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

Comparison between English and French Poetry..

PRELIMINARY Dissertation.

PART FIRST.

POETRY AND THE DRAMA.

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.

History of the Drama.

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

the present Times.

The present State of Poetry in England.

196

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

200

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

Ancient German and Northern Poetry.

212

226

On the Subjects of Crabbe's Poetry.

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

The Lake School of Poetry.

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

(No. 1.),

Parallel between Rousseau and Lord Byron,

250

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

Harold.

278