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1835.
CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
History of the Drama.
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.
Sketch of English Literature during the Reigns of Elizabeth and James.
170
Changes in the Character of English Poetry from the Reign of Queen Anne to
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.
Ancient German and Northern 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.).
200
212
226
250
257
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
Harold.