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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
OF THE WRITERS,

AND AN ESSAY IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION

"WHAT IS POETRY?”

BY

LEIGH HUNT.

NEW EDITION, COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.

NEW YORK:

GEORGE P. PUTNAM, 155 BROADWAY.

1851.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, "WHAT IS POETRY?"

SELECTIONS FROM SPENSER, WITH CRITICAL NOTICE

ARCHIMAGO'S HERMITAGE AND THE HOUSE OF MORPHEUS

THE CAVE OF MAMMON AND GARDEN OF PROSERPINE

A GALLERY OF PICTURES FROM SPENSER

(Spenser considered as the Poet of the Painters.)

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A KNIGHT IN BRIGHT ARMOR, LOOKING INTO A CAVE

MALBECCO SEES HELLENORE DANCING WITH THE SATYRS

LANDSCAPE, WITH DAMSELS CONVEYING A WOUNDED SQUIRE ON

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HIS HORSE

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THE NYMPHS AND GRACES DANCING TO A SHEPHERD'S PIPE;

OR, APOTHEOSIS OF A POET'S MISTRESS

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A SATYR PRESENTS A BASKET OF FRUIT TO THE FAITHFUL

SHEPHERDESS

A SPOT FOR LOVE TALES

MORNING

THE POWER OF LOVE

INVOCATION TO SLEEP

SELECTIONS FROM MIDDLETON, DECKER, AND WEBSTER, WITH

CRITICAL NOTICE

FLIGHT OF WITCHES

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