[37] Vide “Elizabethan Critical Essays,” op. cit., Intro., pp. LV-LX.
[38] Preface to the “Fables,” Ker, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 266-67.
[39] Vide Works, ed. Elwin and Courthope, Vol. II.
[40] Vide “Translation of Homer,” ed. Buckley, Intro., p. 47; and cp. “The Guardian,” No. 78, “A Receipt to make an Epic Poem.”
[41] Tovey, op. cit., March 8, 1771 (Vol. II, pp. 305 foll.); Beattie’s comments are given by Tovey, ibid., footnotes.
[42] “Rambler,” No. 121, May 14, 1751.
[43] “Lines written in Imitation of Certain Poems Published in 1777”; and cp. William Whitehead’s “Charge to the Poets” (1762), which may be taken to reflect the various attitudes of the reading public towards the “revivals.”—(“Poets of Great Britain,” 1794, Vol. XI, pp. 935-7.)
[44] Works (1820), op. cit., Vol. IV, p. 124.
[45] September 27, 1788 (“Letters,” 4 vols, 1806, Vol. II, p. 106).
[46] Letter to Lady Hesketh, March 22, 1790 (“Correspondence of William Cowper—Arranged in Chronological Order by T. Wright,” 4 vols., 1904).—Vol. III, pp. 446, foll.