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For the studies, first they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of some good grammar, either that now used, or any better: and while this is doing, their...

It was that memorable day, in the first Summer of the late War, when our Navy engaged the Dutch: a day wherein the two most mighty and best appointed Fleets...

The Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and Virgil in Latin; Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good...

Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him, and others may have their pretensions...

(EPISTLE TO THE PISOS) If a painter should wish to unite a horse’s neck to a human head, and spread a variety of plumage over limbs [of different animals] taken from...

“LIFE OF MILTON” (1779; EXCERPT) He was at this time [1624, aged fifteen] eminently skilled in the Latin tongue; and he himself by annexing the dates to his first compositions, a...

The first volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how...

[On Shakespeare and “Eternal Poetry”: Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 17, 18 April 1817] Carisbrooke April 17th My dear Reynolds, Ever since I wrote to my Brothers from Southampton I have been...

Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects originally proposed—Preface to the second edition—The ensuing controversy, its causes and acrimony—Philosophic definitions of a poem and poetry with scholia. During the...