A Preface to Eighteenth Century Poetry

A. E. Housman Addison allusion beauties better calenture century poetry Chalmers classical Coleridge common conscious contemporary Cowper critics doubt Dryden Dunciad eighteenth eighteenth-century poetry eighteenth-century reader emotions English poetry enjoy epitaph Essays experience expression eyes fact fancy fashion felt Gray Gray's grief Homer Horace human Ibid Idiot Boy imagination imitations John Dennis John Hewet Johnson kind Lady language Latin less light literary literature live Lord lovers Lyttelton ment metaphor mind modern reader Monody Naiad nature never Nicholas Rowe o'er orange-tree original perhaps period periphrasis Philip Doddridge poem poet poet's polite readers polite society Pope Pope's prose readers of poetry reason refinement remarkable Reynolds satire simplicity sort Spectator Spingarn standards Stanton Harcourt stanza Stephen Duck Stopford Brooke Swift taste Tatler things tion to-day translation twentieth century verse Virgil vulgar William Shenstone words Wordsworth write wrote