THE NEW YORK 243015 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1901 BOSTON: PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON & SON, 22, SCHOOL STREET. STEREOTYPED BY MESSRS. STONE & SMART, RIVERSIDE. PREFACE. FOUR early letters from Akenside to Mr. Dyson are for the first time printed in the following Memoir. They are very characteristic of the writer, and valuable as correcting some erroneous statements of his biographers. For transcripts of these interesting papers, and for several other less important communications, I am indebted to the kindness of J. Dyson, Esq. of Newgrove, Petworth, the son of Akenside's excellent friend and patron. Every poem which could be traced to the author's pen has been inserted in the present volume. ALEXANDER DYCE. LONDON, Dec. 1834. ODES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS, continued. Book I. Ode XI. On Love, to a Friend XII. To Sir Francis Henry Drake, Bart. XI. To the Country Gentlemen of England XII. On recovering from a Fit of Sickness |