COOPER'S HILL.
This poem, by Denham, though it may have been exceeded by later
attempts in description, yet deserves the highest applause, as
it far surpasses all that went before it: the concluding part,
though a little too much crowded, is very masterly.
ELOISA TO ABELARD.
The harmony of numbers in this poem is very fine. It is rather
drawn out to too tedious a length, although the passions vary
with great judgement. It may be considered as superior to
anything in the epistolary way; and the many translations which
have been made of it into the modern languages, are in some
measure a proof of this.
AN EPISTLE FROM MR. PHILIPS* TO THE EARL OF DORSET.
The opening of this poem is incomparably fine. The latter part
is tedious and trifling.
[footnote] *Ambrose Philips.
A LETTER FROM ITALY, TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES LORD
HALIFAX.
In the Year MDCCI.
Few poems have done more honour to English genius than this.
There is in it a strain of political thinking that was, at that
time, new in our poetry.
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