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SOLD ALSO BY AMYOT, RUE DE LA PAIX; TRUCHY, BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS;
THEOPHILE BARROIS, JUN., RUE RICHELIEU; LIBRAIRIE DES ETRANGERS,
RUE NEUVE SAINT-AUGUSTIN; AND FRENCH AND ENGLISH LIBRARY,
RUE VIVIENNE.
1835.
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CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
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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.
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
the present Times.
Comparison between English and French Poetry..
The present State of Poetry in England..
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.
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257
Examination of Miss Joanna Baillie's Plan of her Plays on the Passions
(No. 1.).
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.
278
On the immoral Tendence of Lord Byron's Poetry.
Scott's Marmion.
Manfred.
Lalla Rookh.
Rogers's Poetry.
The Beauties of Shakspeare.
Lord Leveson Gower's Poems and Translations.
Poems of Mr. Robert Montgomery,
The modern Practice of Puffing.
Life and Poetry of Lord Byron.
Southey's uneducated Poets.
APPENDIX.
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