OR

SELECTIONS FROM THE ENGLISH POETS,

Ellustrative of those First Requisites of their Art;

WITH MARKINGS OF THE BEST PASSAGES, CRITICAL NOTICES
OF THE WRITERS,

AND AN ESSAY IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION

"WHAT IS POETRY?"

BY

LEIGH HUNT.

NEW YORK:

WILEY AND PUTNAM, 161 BROADWAY.

1845.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE

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AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, WHAT IS POETRY ?"

SELECTIONS FROM SPENSER, WITH CRITICAL NOTICE
ARCHIMAGO'S HERMITAGE AND THE HOUSE OF MORPHEUS
THE CAVE OF MAMMON AND GARDEN OF PROSERPINE
A GALLERY OF PICTURES FROM SPENSER

(Spenser considered as the Poet of the Painters.)

A KNIGHT IN BRIGHT ARMOR, LOOKING INTO A CAVE

MALBECCO SEES HELLENORE DANCING WITH THE SATYRS

LANDSCAPE, WITH DAMSELS CONVEYING A WOUNDED SQUIRE ON

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THE NYMPHS AND GRACES DANCING TO A SHEPHERD'S PIPE;

OR, APOTHEOSIS OF A POET'S MISTRESS

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