Specimens of the British Poets With Biographical And Critical Notices And An E
Specimens of the British Poets With Biographical And Critical Notices And An E
Thomas Campbell
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Yet there is a beauty of thought which at intervals rises from his chaotic imagination, like the form of Venus smiling on the waters. Giles and Phineas Fletcher possessed harmony and fancy. The simple Warner has left, in his " Argentile and Curan, " perhaps the finest pastoral episode in our language. Browne was an elegant describer of rural scenes, though incompetent to fill them with life and manners. Chalkhill 1 is a 1 Chalkhill was a gentleman and a scholar, the friend of Spenser. He died b...efore he could finish the fable of his Thealma and Clearchus, which was published, long after his death, by Isaac Walton. ] 72 ESSAY ON writer of pastoral romance, from whose work of Thealma and Clearchus a speci- men should have been given in the body of these Selections, but was omitted by an accidental oversight. Chalkhill's num- bers are as musical as those of any of his contemporaries, who employ the same form of versification. It was common with the writers of the heroic couplet of that age to bring the sense to a full and frequent pause in the middle of the line.
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