TO PROFESSOR JOHN W. FRANCIS, M.D., The Skilful Physician, the Constant Friend, THE GENIAL HUMORIST, AND THE LOVER OF LITERATURE THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED HIS OBLIGED FRIEND AND SINCERE ADMIRER THE AUTHOR, CONTENTS. Page 13 1. ESSAY WRITING.–THE CHAMPION . . . . • 11. TRAITS OF AMERICAN AUTHORSHIP . . . IV. THE TWO EVERETTS. . . . . . V. POEMS BY CLEMENT C. MOORE, LL.D. .. VI. AMERICAN VERSE:-RALPH HOYT . - VII. THE LITERARY CHARACTER OF R. H. DANA . .. VIII. TALES OF THE SOUTH AND WEST . . XI. SIR PHILIP SIDNEYS” “DEFENCE OF POESY” . . 79 XII. BURTON'S “ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY” . . 88 XIII. MEMOIRS OF LADY FANSHAWE XIV. CURIOUS EXTRAVAGANCIES IN THE FORMS OF VERSE 103 XVI. SATIRE AND SENTIMENT . . . . . 113 XVIII. THE CULTURE OF THE IMAGINATION . . . 129 XXIV. CORRESPONDENCE OF RICHARDSON . XXVIII. THE LITERATURE OF THE PROFESSIONS . INTRODUCTION. The present collection embraces articles in various Journals, (Arcturus, the Church Record, the Boston Miscellany, Democratic and Whig Reviews, Union Magazine and the Literary World; from which sources, the volume entitled Literary Studies was also selected,) published during the last nine years. This fact is mentioned to account for a diversity of style, that may be remarked among the essays, a comparative harshness in some and an acquired facility in others. The papers are not arranged chronologically, but rather according to the subjects, a natural division under which they fall. None of the papers in this volume are included in either · Literary Studies' or 'the Analyst. The contents of this series have been selected with no little care : long review articles, and certain papers of literary statistics, at once didactic and declamatory, in some cases hastily made up and in which a good deal of catalogueing too frequently occurs, have been omitted. A |