Volume Iv Part 30 (2/2)

His delineation of character.

Poetry; Horace's comparison of poems to certain paintings.

Principles upon which poetry is to be estimated.

Element by which poetry is poetry.

Frame of mind required by poetry.

Absurdities of writers who attempt to give general rules for composition.

The mechanical part of the art of poetry.

Power of the imagination in a barbarous age.

Periods of consummate excellence and of the decline of poetry.

Age of critical poetry.

The imaginative school gradually fading into the critical.

The poets of Greece.

And of Rome.

Revolution of the poetry of Italy, Spain, and England.

The critical and poetical faculties, distinct and incompatible.

Excellence of English dramatic poetry.

Extinction of the dramatic and ascendency of the fas.h.i.+onable school of poetry.

Changes in the time of Charles II.

John Dryden.

Poets, the favourite themes of the, of the present day.

Catholicity of the orthodox poetical creed.

Why good poets are bad critics.

Police officers of Athens.

Polybius, his character as a historian.

Pomponius Atticus, his veneration for Greek literature.

Pope, Alexander, condensation of the sense in his couplets.

His friends.h.i.+p with Bishop Atterbury.

Appears as a witness in favour of his friend.

His epitaph on Atterbury.

Population, review of Mr Sadler's work on the law of.

His attack of Mr Malthus.

His statement of the law of population.

Extremes of population and fecundity in well-known countries.

Population of England.

Of the United States of America.

Of France.

And of Prussia.

Portland, Duke of, formation of his Administration.

Portrait-painting compared with history.

Posterity, Epistle to, Petrarch's.

Power, senses in which the word may be used.

Dependence of the happiness of nations on the real distribution of power.

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