[213] “Dodsley-Pearch,” X, p. 5.
[214] Vide also Bell’s “Fugitive Poetry” (1791). Vol. XI, where there is a section devoted to “Poems in the manner of Milton.”
[215] “Dodsley-Pearch,” X, p. 269.
[216] At the same time there appeared a similar volume of the Odes of William Collins, “Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects,” the original intention having been to publish in one volume. Collins’s collection had a lukewarm reception, so that the author soon burned the unsold copies. But see Articles in “The Times Literary Supplement,” January 5th (p. 5) and January 12, 1922 (p. 28), by Mr. H. O. White, on “William Collins and his Contemporary Critics,” from which it would appear that the Odes were not received with such indifference as is commonly believed.
[217] Cf. “Pope’s Works,” ed. Courthope and Elwin, Vol. V, p. 365.
[218] Vide also “The Triumph of Isis” (1749), and “The Monody written near Stratford-on-Avon.” (“Poets of Great Britain,” 1794, Vol. XI, pp. 1061-4.)
[219] Cf. Gosse, “A History of Eighteenth Century Literature” (1889), p. 233.
[220] Cf. Courthope, “Hist. Engl. Poetry,” Vol. V, pp. 397-8.
[221] “Lives,” ed. G. Birkbeck Hill, Vol. III, p. 341.
[222] “On Lyric Poetry—Poetical Works,” ed. Mitford (Aldine, ed. 1896), Vol. II, p. 147.