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Lectures on English poets : the spirit of the age: or contemporary portraits

Print Book, English, [1955]
J.M. Dent ; E.P. Dutton, London, New York, [1955]
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 362 pages ; 19 cm.
5713690
Lectures on the English poets: I. Introductory. On poetry in general. II. On Chaucer and Spenser. III. On Shakespeare and Milton. IV. On Dryden and Pope. V. On Thomson and Couper. VI. On Swift, Young, Gray, Collins, etc. VII. On Burns, and the old English ballads. VIII. On the living poets
The spirit of the age: Jeremy Beacham. William Godwin. Mr. Coleridge. Rev. Mr. Irving. The late Mr. Horne Tooke. Sir Walter Scott. Lord Byron. Mr. Southey. Mr. Wordsworth. Sir James Macintosh. Mr. Malthus. Mr. Gifford. Mr. Jeffrey. Mr Brougham. Sir F. Burdett. Lord Eldon. Mr. Wilberforce. Mr. Canning. Mr. Campbell. Mr. Crabbe. Mr. T. Moore. Mr. Leigh Hunt. Elia. Geoffrey Crayon
Introduction by A.R. Walker