OF

POLITE LITERATURE.

In FIVE VOLUME S.

VOL. II.

LONDON,

Printed for G. BURNET, at Bifhop Burnet's Head,

in the Strand.

MDCCLXIV.

ANECDOTES

OF

POLITE LITERATURE.

SE C T. I.

Of PASTORAL POETRY.

Sat

O many pens have been employed at different times on this popular fubject, that my only bufinefs will be to explain the real and effential qualities of a pastoral poem. A point concerning which moft critics differ.

Few fpecies of poetry have excited more writers than the paftoral; but scarce any

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