क IMAGINATION, AND FANCY OR SELECTIONS FROM THE ENGLISH POETS, Illustrative of those First Requisites of their Art; WITH MARKINGS OF THE BEST PASSAGES, CRITICAL NOTICES AND AN ESSAY IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION "WHAT IS POETRY?" BY LEIGH HUNT. = NEW YORK: 1845, B HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PREFACE AN ANS SELECTI ARCHE THE C A GAL CHARL HOPE CUPID MARRI SIR GU UNA, JUPITE NIGHT VENUS THE B ANYM THE C A KNIC MALBE LANDSC HI THE N OF AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, WHAT IS POETRY ?" SELECTIONS FROM SPENSER, WITH CRITICAL NOTICE ARCHIMAGO'S HERMITAGE AND THE HOUSE OF MORPHEUS (Spenser considered as the Poet of the Painters.) CONTENTS. HOPE CUPID USURPING THE THRONE OF JUPITER MARRIAGE PROCESSION OF THE THAMES AND MEDWAY SIR GUYON BINDING FUROR UNA, OR FAITH IN DISTRESS NIGHT AND THE WITCH DUESSA VENUS IN SEARCH OF CUPID, COMING TO DIANA AN ANGEL WITH A PILGRIM AND A FAINTING KNIGHT THE BRIDE AT THE ALTAR A NYMPH BATHING THE CAVE OF DESPAIR A KNIGHT IN BRIGHT ARMOR, LOOKING INTO A CAVE HIS HORSE THE NYMPHS AND GRACES DANCING TO A SHEPHERD'S PIPE; 77 78 78 79 . 80 . 80 82 . 83 85 86 . 87 • 88 89 89 90 91 91 Page iii. 93 93 A PLUME OF FEATHERS AND AN ALMOND TREE SELECTIONS FROM MARLOWE, WITH CRITICAL NOTICE THE JEW OF MALTA'S IDEA OF WEALTH A VISION OF HELEN MYTHOLOGY AND COURT AMUSEMENTS THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE SELECTIONS FROM SHAKSPEARE WITH CRITICAL NOTICE WHOLE STORY OF THE TEMPEST MACBETH AND THE WITCHES THE QUARREL OF OBERON AND TITANIA THE BRIDAL HOUSE BLESSED BY THE FAIRIES LOVERS AND MUSIC ANTONY AND THE CLOUDS YOUNG WARRIORS IMOGEN IN BED TOWERING SENSUALITY THE WITCH A MEETING OF WITCHES A CATCH OF SATYRS NOTICE SELECTIONS FROM BEN JONSON, WITH CRITICAL NOTICE TO CYNTHIA; THE MOON THE LOVE-MAKING OF LUXURY MELANCHOLY A SATYR SHEPHERDESS A SPOT FOR LOVE TALES MORNING PRESENTS A BASKET OF FRUIT TO THE FAITHFUL SELECTIONS FROM BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, WITH CRITICAL THE POWER OF LOVE INVOCATION TO SLEEP SELECTIONS FROM MIDDLETON, DECKER, AND WEBSTER, WITH CRITICAL NOTICE FLIGHT OF WITCHES . 148 • $ 153 155 155 156 157 150 . 158 . 162 • |