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was a Translation from Anacreon, published in 1800. The works for which he is chiefly remembered are his Irish Melodies, exquisite specimens of polished and most musical verse; and his Lalla Rookh (Tulip-cheek), a glittering picture of Eastern life and thought. Shutting himself up in a Derbyshire cottage with a pile of books on Oriental history and travel, he so steeped his mind in the colours of his theme, that he is said to have been asked by one who knew Asia well, at what time he had travelled there. The Fudge Family in Paris, a sparkling satire, and The Epicurean, a romance of Oriental life in poetic prose, deserve special mention among the works of Moore. Burns and Moore stand side by side as the lyrists of two kindred nations. But the works of the latter, polished and surpassingly sweet as they are, have something of a drawing-room sheen about them, which does not find its way to the heart so readily as the simple grace of the unconventional Ayrshire peasant. The Muse of the Irish lawyer is crowned with a circlet of shining gems; the Muse of the Scottish peasant wears a garland of sweet field-flowers. Moore lived a brilliant, fashionable life in London, and died in 1852.

ROBERT TANNAHILL, born at Paisley in 1774, was in early life a weaver. His Scottish songs, among which may be named Gloomy Winter's now awa, and Jessie the Flower o' Dunblane, are remarkable for sweetness and power. The return of his poems by a publisher, to whom he had sent them, so preyed upon his sensitive mind, that it gave way and he drowned himself in a neighbouring brook (1810).

THOMAS CAMPBELL was a native of Glasgow. Born there in 1777, he distinguished himself at the University by his poetical translations from the Greek. Tuition and booksellers' work supported him, until he made a hit in 1799 by his Pleasures of Hope, which was written in a dusky Edinburgh lodging. His other great poem, Gertrude of Wyoming, a tale of Pennsylvania, appeared in 1809. Fine as these are, however, they are surpassed by his smaller poems, many of which, such as Hohenlinden and Lord Ullin's Daughter, are extraordinary specimens of scenic power, or picturing in words. Such noble naval lays as The Battle of the

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Baltic, and Ye Mariners of England, obtained for him a government pension. In prose he won considerable praise for the critical notices attached to his Specimens of the British Poets. He edited the "New Monthly Magazine" for ten years. FELICIA HEMANS (maiden name, Browne) pool in 1793, the daughter of a merchant. scenery of Wales her youth was spent. Captain Hemans was far from happy. public as a poetess in her fifteenth year, she continued at intervals to produce works of exquisite grace and tenderness, until some three weeks before her death, which took place in Dublin on the 16th of May 1835. The Forest Sanctuary is her finest poem; but to name those lyrics and shorter poems from her pen, which live in the memory like favourite tunes, would be an endless task. Such are The Voice of Spring, The Graves of a Household, The Battle of Morgarten, The Palm Tree, and The Sunbeam. Her tragedy, The Vespers of Palermo, though abounding in beauty, has not enough of dramatic effect to suit the stage.

REGINALD HEBER was born in 1783, at Malpas in Cheshire. Educated at Oxford, and there distinguished for both Latin and English verse-especially for his fine prize poem, Palestine-he became a Fellow of All Souls' College, and entered the Church. In 1809 he published Europe, or Lines on the Present War. Appointed Bishop of Calcutta in 1823, he was in the full career of active usefulness, when he died suddenly in his bath one morning at Trichinopoly, having worn the mitre only three years. This gentle poet is, perhaps, best known by such sweet missionary hymns as that beginning, "From Greenland's icy mountains."

LEIGH HUNT, born in 1784, at Southgate in Middlesex, went to school at Christ's Hospital with Charles Lamb. Poetry and journalism began early to employ his lively pen. In 1808 Hunt and his brother started The Examiner, a weekly paper, in which he made some statements about the Prince Regent that led to his imprisonment for libel. Turning his cell and prison-yard into a little bower of sweet flowers, he lived there for two years, receiving visits from Byron, Moore, and other sympathetic friends. His

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Italian poem, A Story of Rimini, was published after his liberation. His visit to Italy, and alliance with Byron in the publication of The Liberal were unfortunate undertakings. A narrative poem called The Palfrey, and a drama, A Legend of Florence, are among his other works. His prose Essays, Sketches, and Memoirs have all the characteristics of his verse-a light picturesque gracefulness being the prevailing quality of both. He died in 1859.

HENRY KIRKE WHITE, the son of a butcher, was born at Nottingham on the 21st of August 1785. At fourteen he was apprenticed to a stocking-weaver; but, disliking the trade, he afterwards entered an attorney's office. A silver medal, awarded him for a translation of Horace, which was proposed in the Monthly Preceptor, confirmed the boy's desire to cultivate poetry. In 1803 he published a volume of poems, the chief piece in which was called Clifton Grove. The notice of Southey cheered the young poet's heart, and the kindness of new friends enabled him to enter St. John's College, Cambridge, as a sizar. There he wrought so hard to win the honours of scholarship and science, that he died in 1806, a victim to intense study acting on a somewhat delicate frame. Southey edited his Remains, consisting of poems on various subjects and letters to his friends.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, a baronet's son, born in 1792 at Field Place in Sussex, lived a short, unhappy life. The young student of romance wrote two novels while yet a school-boy. Expelled from Oxford for his atheism, he wrote at eighteen a poem called Queen Mab, full of power and beauty, but debased in its very grain and ground-work by rank infidelity and blasphemy. Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude, a poetical picture of his own lawless and unresting soul; The Revolt of Islam, written in his country-house at Great Marlow in Bucks; Prometheus Unbound, a classic drama, mystical and impious, written under the blue Roman sky amid bowers of fragrant blossom; and The Cenci, a powerful but repulsive tragedy, form the leading works of this brilliant, wayward, ill-fated youth. Some of his minor poems, among which we may specify The Cloud, The Skylark, and the delicious Sensitive Plant, actually overflow with lyrical beauty both of thought and

language. Delicacy of constitution forced him to the sweet air of Italy, where he saw a good deal of Byron. Boating was his favourite recreation; and one July day in 1822, returning from Leghorn, a squall overset his little craft in the Gulf of Spezzia, and he perished in the waves.

JOHN KEATS, born in London in October 1795, was early bound apprentice to a surgeon. Cultivating poetry with great earnestness, he published Endymion, a Poetic Romance, in 1818. A severe and scornful review of this first effort, which appeared in the "Quarterly," struck like a dagger to the heart of the sensitive poet, and probably hastened his death. Before consumption, which was a family disease, slew this brilliant young "singer of the senses," he had written Hyperion, The Eve of St. Agnes, Lamia, Isabella, and other poems, which showed that his untrained, over-luxuriant imagination, springing from the root of true genius, could be pruned into the production of works well worthy to live. Keats died at Rome on the 27th of December 1820, and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery there, under a sweet carpeting of violets and daisies. When the body of drowned Shelley drifted ashore, a volume of Keats was found in the pocket of his brine-soaked coat He had already shown his love for the young surgeon-poet by an elegy called Adonais.

Supplementary List.

MICHAEL BRUCE.—(1746-1767)—Portmoak, Kinross—a schoolmaster—Lochleven. An Elegy written in Spring.

SIR WILLIAM JONES.-(1746-1794)-London-a Judge in the Supreme Court in Bengal-Song of Hafiz; Hindoo Wife.

JOHN LOGAN. (1748–1788)—Soutra, Mid-Lothian-a Scottish minister-The Cuckoo; The Country in Autumn; Runnimede.

ROBERT FERGUSSON.-(1751-1774)-Edinburgh-a lawyer's clerk-poet of Scottish town life-Guid Braid Claith; To the Tron Kirk Bell.

WILLIAM GIFFORD.-(1756-1826)-Ashburton, Devonshire-The Baviad; The Mæviad-Editor of "Quarterly."

WILLIAM SOTHEBY.-(1757-1833)-London-a dragoon officer-Orestes, Saul, Italy; translations from Wieland, Virgil, and Homer.

WM. L. BOWLES.-(1762-1850)-King's-Sutton, Northamptonshire-canon of Salisbury-Sonnets; Sorrows of Switzerland; Missionary of the Andes. JAMES GRAHAME.-(1765-1811)-Glasgow-curate of Sedgefield, Durham-The Sabbath: Mary Queen of Scots.

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ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.—(1766-1823)—Honington, near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk-The Farmer's Boy; Rural Tales; Mayday with the Muses.

J. HOOKHAM FRERE.-(1769-1846)-diplomatist—Most Interesting Particulars relating to King Arthur, by the Brothers Whistlecraft.

HON. WM. R. SPENCER.-(1770-1834)-author of Beth Gelert and minor poems; translator of Lenore.

MARY TIGHE.-(1773-1810)-Miss Blackford-county of Wicklow, Ireland— Psyche, in six cantos.

JOHN LEYDEN. (1775-1811)-Denholm, Roxburghshire-Scenes of Infancy; The Mermaid; Ode to a Gold Coin.

JAMES SMITH.-(1775-1839)-London-solicitor-in conjunction with his brother Horace wrote Rejected Addresses, in imitation of popular authors. GEORGE CROLY.-(1780-1860)-Dublin-Rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook-Paris in 1815; Angel of the World; Catiline, a tragedy; Salathiel, a romance. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.—(1784-1842)-Blackwood, Dumfries-shire-Chantrey's assistant-Scottish Songs; Sir Marmaduke Maxwell; The Maid of Elvan; Life of Wilkie.

WILLIAM TENNANT.-(1785-1848)-Anstruther, Fife-professor at St. Andrews -Anster Fair; Thane of Fife; Dinging Down of the Cathedral. EBENEZER ELLIOTT.-(1781–1849)-Masborough, Yorkshire-iron-founder-Corn Law Rhymes.

RICHARD BARHAM.-(1788-1845)—Canterbury-an Episcopal clergyman—Ingoldsby Legends, in prose and verse; My Cousin Nicholas, (a novel). JOHN KEBLE.-(1790-1866)-Episcopal clergyman-Professor of Poetry at Oxford-The Christian Year.

CHARLES WOLFE.-(1791-1823)-Dublin-Episcopal minister-Burial of Sir John Moore; Jugurtha in Prison.

ROBERT POLLOK.-(1799-1827)—Muirhouse, Renfrewshire-theological student -The Course of Time, a sacred epic.

DRAMATISTS.

HANNAH MORE, the daughter of a Gloucestershire schoolmaster, was born in 1745. Her three tragedies, produced under Garrick's encouragement, were The Inflexible Captive, Percy, and The Fatal Falsehood. Of these, "Percy" is the best. She is also remembered for her very numerous Tales and other prose works, many of which treat of female education. Of the former, Calebs in search of a wife, was remarkably popular. She died in 1833.

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, distinguished as a manager, dramatist, and statesman, was born in Dublin in 1751. At twenty-four he produced The Rivals, in which Captain Absolute and Mrs. Malaprop are well-known characters. But his greatest