[Footnote 7:] Masque of the Fortunate Islands]
[Footnote 8:] History of English Poetry, Vol. II. pp. 335-336, ed. 1840.]
[Footnote 9:] WARTON: Birthday Ode, 1787.]
[Footnote 10:] See his British Poets, from Chaucer to Jonson, Art. Daniel. Southey contemplated a continuation of Warton's History, and, in preparing for that labor, learned many things he had never known of the earlier writers.]
[Footnote 11:] Jonson's classification. See his Poetaster.]
[Footnote 12:] Lamb's Works, and Life, by Talfourd, Vol. IV. p. 89.]
[Footnote 13:] Hesperides, Encomiastic Verses.]
[Footnote 14:] Herrick, ubi supra.--To the haunts here named must be added the celebrated Mermaid, of which Shakspeare was the Magnus Apollo, and The Devil, where Pope imagines Ben to have gathered peculiar inspiration:-- "And each true Briton is to Ben so civil, He swears the Muses met him at The Devil." Imitation of Horace, Bk. ii. Epist. i.]
[Footnote 15:] Election of a Poet-Laureate, 1719, Works, Vol. II.]
[Footnote 16:] Feast of the Poets, 1814.]