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The writings of Homer, and Virgil, and Milton, have not perhaps so many genuine admirers as is commonly supposed; because the merit which they possess is of a quality so far above the standard to which the taste of the general reader is adapted, that it can be duly appreciated, we imagine, only by minds of some considerable cultivation. Magni est viri, says Quintilian, speaking of Homer, virtutes ejus non æmulatione (quod fieri non potest) sed intellectu sequi. The works of our modern bards, however, are obviously calculated for a much larger description of readers; the characters and sentiments which they contain, the species of interest which they inspire, are, for the most part, level to all capacities; while their faults and deficiencies are such that none but persons of refined and practised taste are in any sensible degree affected by them. Whether this be a sort of merit which indicates great and uncommon talents, may perhaps admit a doubt; but at all events it is a very useful one to the public at large. The productions of Mr. Scott, possibly, bear no more proportion to the Iliad or the Paradise Lost, than the excellent Tales of Miss Edgeworth to the Histories of Tacitus or Clarendon; but this is a separate question. Such men as Homer and Milton are of rare occurrence; in the mean time we are in the enjoyment of a description of poetry, which is adapted to the genius of a greater number of writers, and is capable of affording amusement to a greater variety of readers than any which antiquity possessed. But although it is clear, that some conveniences have resulted from thus lowering the qualification formerly required even from the readers of good poetry; it has also been attended with some disadvantages. Authors will not, any more than other men, bestow VOL. XIII. NO. XXVI. T upon |