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CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION.

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POETRY AND THE DRAMA.

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The Nature and Object of Poetry.

On the Utility of Poetry.

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

On tbe 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

ibe present Times.

Comparison between English and French Poetry.

The present State of Poetry in England.

Saetch 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.

Ancient German and Northern Poetry.

The Poetry of Russia, Batavia, Spain, Polarid, 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.;.

On the Subjects of Crabbe's Poetry.

Parallel between Rousseau and Lord Byron,

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

Harold.

On the immoral Tendence of Lord Byron's Poetry.

Scott's Marmion.

Manfred.

Lala Rookh.

Rogers's Poetry.

The Beauties of Shakspeare.

Lord Lereson Gower's Poems and Translations.
Poems of Ur. Robert Montgomery,

The modera Practice of Puffing.

Life and Poetry of Lord Byron.

Southey's uneducated Poets.

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