[379]. Mr. Milman. Henry Hart Milman, 1791–1868, of Latin Christianity fame was also the author of several dramas and dramatic poems, and of several well-known hymns.
Bowles. William Lisle Bowles, 1762–1850.
Mr. Barry Cornwall. Bryan Waller Procter (1787–1874).
[1]. Burke’s writings are not poetry, notwithstanding the vividness of the fancy, because the subject matter is abstruse and dry, not natural, but artificial. The difference between poetry and eloquence is, that the one is the eloquence of the imagination, and the other of the understanding. Eloquence tries to persuade the will, and convince the reason: poetry produces its effect by instantaneous sympathy. Nothing is a subject for poetry that admits of a dispute. Poets are in general bad prose-writers, because their images, though fine in themselves, are not to the purpose, and do not carry on the argument. The French poetry wants the forms of the imagination. It is didactic more than dramatic. And some of our own poetry which has been most admired, is only poetry in the rhyme, and in the studied use of poetic diction.
[2]. Taken from Tasso.
[3]. This word is an instance of those unwarrantable freedoms which Spenser sometimes took with language.
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‘That all with one consent praise new-born gauds,
Tho’ they are made and moulded of things past,