...deserves to be called the author of a species of composition that may be denominated localpoetnj, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation. This department was afterwards cultivated with great success by English writers and almost exclusively...

...Johnson, to have been the writer of a " species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape...supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditations." Sir John performed signal services to the Royal Family during the civil war, and, according...

...that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular laDdscape, to be poetically described, with the addition of such...historical retrospection or incidental meditation." Under hia proud surrey the city lies, And like a mist beneath a hill does rise, Whose state and wealth,...

...been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be dominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation " (Johnson in his Life of Denham). 1. 23. Waller's poem on The Park. Waller wrote no poem of that name....

...been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be dominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation" (Johnson in his Life of Denham). 1. 23. Waller's poem on The Park. Waller wrote no poem of that name....

...at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape,...such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospect or incidental meditation."—Cooper's Biog. Diet. ,"» , v AI 1 . CHAP. XXXII. Dec. 6, i?43Murray's...

...at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation." And certainly Denham became the founder of a long dynasty of poets, who with various modifications...

...occur in what Samuel Johnson later denominated " local poetry, of which the fundamental subject ig some particular landscape to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation." e Johnson's definition puts the emphasis where it belonged in his own time, on the element of description,...

...Denham's Cooper's Hill, had called " local poetry." " The fundamental subject," said the Doctor, " is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation." Thus in both Growe and Gary we have the description of the scene from a particular hill,2 the note...

...at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape,...historical retrospection, or incidental meditation'-.' This is best seen by summarizing the poem. After an invocation to Cooper's Hill, the poet looks from...