Lectures on the English Poets

admiration Ęschylus affectation artificial Ballads beauty Beggar's Opera blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances common death delight describes dramatic epic poetry equal Eton College excellence fame fancy feeling flowers genius give grace hand happy hates hath heart highest hire human idea imagination interest Knight's Tale labour language 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 perhaps person pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise prose reader rhyme round seem'd sense sentiment Shakspeare Shanter sing song soul sound Spenser spirit spring storm of passion style sublime sweet thee ther thing thou thought tion Titian trees truth verse wind wings wolde words Wordsworth writings youth