THE

BOOK OF ENGLISH POETRY.

PART 1.–MODERN ENGLISH POETS.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. The peculiar characteristics of the modern school of British Poets may be concisely stated to originate in the abandonment of classical imagery, and the artificial ideas adapted from Greek and Roman mythology, for the more direct subserviency of the muse to truth and nature. All poetry is, indeed, necessarily inspired by the truthful appreciation of nature ; but the choice of subject, and the mode of treatment, are equally affected by the fashions and tendencies of the age, and thus the works of the true poet become the mirror in which the characteristics of his era are reflected and faithfully depicted for other times.

During the latter part of the eighteenth century, names belonging to the modern school of poets began to appear among those singularly fantastic writers, such as Darwin, Hayley, and Weston, who so fitly represented the character of that most formal and artificial period.

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Spring,

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The Pelican Island, ...

The Nightingale, ... ...

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Liberty, ...

Autumn, ... ...

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The Quarrel of Friends,

Adonis Sleeping, ...

To a Friend, proposing to do The Dream of Eugene Aram,
mesticate with the Author, Friendship, ...

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Sonnet, ...

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The Sky-Lark,

86 The Deserted Hall, ...

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Kilmeny's return from Fairy The Future, ...

Land,

The Forsaken,

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A Mountain Landscape,

88 Sabbath Evening,

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The Holly Tree,

89 The Couch by Friendship

The Evening Rainbow,

91 Spread, ...

Love,

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91 Love and Death,

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Noontide, .

The Bride, from “In Memo-

Scenes of Youth,

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To Ianthe, ...

Godiva,

Hope triumphant in Death,

The Statesman, from “In Me-

Ye Mariners of England,

moriam," ... ... ...

Gertrude's Childhood,

100 A Child's First Impression of a

The Last Man, ... ...

| Star,

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The Soldier's Dream,

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Love's Dissensions, ... ... 105

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The Glory of God in Nature, 106 The Lady's Yes,

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Jerusalem, ... ... .. 107 Victoria's Tears,

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To the Bramble Flower, 108 To a Dying Infant,

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Steam in the Desert,

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The Mariner's Song,

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Lowliness of Mind, ...

The Huguenot's Battle-Hymn,

My Mother, ...

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The Armada, ...

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Instability of Human Glory,

Moncontour, ...

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The Stormy Petrel, ...

113 A Butterfly at a Child's Grave, 192

The Linden Tree, ...

Napoleon's Return,

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Address to the Ocean,

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The Lake of Geneva,

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The Sun, ... ..

The Reaper and the Flowers,

The Ocean, ...

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The Eve of Waterloo,

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The Evening Cloud, ...

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Moonlight at Sea, ...

125 The Christian Slave, ...

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The Martyr's Funeral Hymn 126 | Our Countrymen in Chains, 204

The Last Day, .. ..

Lines on reading an account

The Cloud, ... ... ... 128 of the meeting of the Bos-

Lines Written in the Vale of ton Female Anti-Slavery So-

Chamouni, ... ...

ciety, ... ... ... 208

The Sky-Lark, ... ... 133 The Covenanter's Dream, ... 210

Returning Spring, ... ... 137 On a Deceased Child,

The Burial of Sir John Moore, 138 | Hymn of Nature, ... 215

The Homes of England, ... 139 Excommunication of the Cid, 217

Evening Prayer in a Girls' Zara's Ear-kings,

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School, ...

Spring,

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Death's Seasons,

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A Requiem, ...

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Loved Ones, ...

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