Lectures on the English Poets

admiration Æneid affectation artificial Ballads beauty Beggar's Opera blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances common critic death delight describes epic poetry equal excellence Faery Queen fame fancy feeling flowers forms genius give Gonne grace hand happy hates hath heart Heaven Herbert Croft hire human idea images imagination interest Knight's Tale labour language less light lines living look Lord Byron Lordship Lycidas Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never o'er objects painted Paradise Lost passion pathos person Petrarch pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise prose reader rhyme sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's simplicity sing song soul sound Spenser spirit spring story style sublime sweet thee things thou thought tion Titian tree truth verse wind wings words Wordsworth writer youth