Lectures on the English poets

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1. Introductory: On poetry in general

2. On Chaucer and Spencer

3. On Shakespeare and Milton

4. On Dryden and Pope

5. On Thomson and Cowper

6. On Swift, Young, Gray, Collins, &c

7. On Burns, and the old English ballads

8. On the living poets

Appendix: I. On Milton's Lycidas. II. On the character of Milton's Eve. III. On Mr. Wordsworth's poem, "The excursion." IV. Pope, Lord Byron, and Mr. Bowles