Grimm's Ghost, 196: the artist's letter-
box, ib.: certain resolutions respecting,
196: case and legal opinion on, 197:
Mrs. Meadowcroft's letter to Mr. O-
198: Alderman Dowgate to
199:
Captain Horehound to Sir W. B. 200:
Levi Lazarus to Mr. T. ib.: Miss L.
Patterson to Mr. J, 475: new sub-Journal (J. Kentucky's), 104: reason for

ferent parties, 436: how only the King | Morgan (Lady), her work on Italy, 75:
could have formed a correct notion of
the country, 437.

May (Thomas), comedies of, 70: extracts
from The Heir, 71: from the Old Cou-
ple, 72.

Melancholy, observations on, 457.
Middle Ages, Sismondi on the history of,
537.585.

Mind (Godfrey), the cat-painter, account
of, 508: Petrarch's affection for a cat,
509 Madame Helvetius and her cat,
510; Mind, the son of a carpenter,
ib.: of limited capacity, ib.: devoted to
painting cats only, 511: his attachment
to bears, ib.: verses applied to him, 512.
Modern Fictions, remarks on, 165.
Modern Pilgrimages to Auburn, 477.
Monti, sonnet of, to the Northumberland,
664.

More (Sir T.), a great thrower at cocks,
643.

remarks on Turin, 76: Milan, 77: Co-
mo, 80: Pavia, ib.: Genoa, 81: Pia-
cenza, 82: Bologna, 82: state of socie-
ty, 201: religious ceremonies, ib.: cere-
monies on Holy Thursday, 202 : on
Good Friday, 204: on Easter-Sunday,
206: English language and literature
studied at Naples, 207: Letter to her
Reviewers, 329.

Legend, 319.
Mountain King (The), from a Swedish

Mummy (Belzoni's), lines to, 128.
Music of Politics, 177: influence of music
upon government, 179: instruments for
legislative assemblies, 181.

Napoleon and St. Helena, 442, 443, 444 :
view of his life and character, 182: mi-
litary renown transient, 511: his great
resolution and success, 184: Madame
de Stael's portrait of him, 185: Mr. El-
lis's interview with him, ib.: greatness
of physiognomy, 186: comparison be-
tween him and Cromwell, 188.

Newspaper (prospective), specimen of,

Nice men, 321: the nice-tasted man, ib.:
the Ladies' man, 324.

Noise, man naturally fond of it, 260: ex-
emplifications, 261.

North German Peasantry, on the, 268.

Play (The New), 38: anxieties of the Au- | Poetry: from the Dutch of Tollens, 16:
thor, 40.

translation from Horace, ib.: on Italy,
17: Macpherson's lament, 24: lines on
Man, 37: on Botany, 46: translation
from Horace, ib. 55: on a piece of the
Palm from the Acropolis at Athens, 59:
verses on Reconcilement, 85: to Bel-
zoni's Mummy, 128: on Love, 224: on
Youth and Love, 276: the Earl Bristol's
Farewell, 277: to the Daisy, 285: Cant,
302: sonnet from Filicaja, 313: to Lelia,
318: the Mountain King, a Swedish
legend, 319: Ugolino, 327: lines given
with a picture to my Brother, 367: The
Return of Renaud, a song, 377: to the
Orange-tree at Versailles, 386: to a
Friend on her Birth-day, 397: Nurse's
song from the German, 403: song, by
T. Campbell, 421: sonnet to the Tur-
quoise, 437: stanzas to a Beauty, 444:
song, 449: sonnet, 450: epigram from
Pananti, 451: sonnet to Echo, 454: to
Ugo Foscolo, 481: to a Friend with a
Seal, 490: Cain on the Sea-shore, 495:
Sunday in Paris, 499: on Lady W-r,
501 the Triton of the Minnows, 547 :
dirge for Mungo Park, 548: sonnet at
Parting, 562 on listening to vocal mu-
sic, ib.: lines written in the Country,
582: to the Sarcophagus in the British
Museum, 583: written in the Volume of
a Friend, 603: translation from Alfieri,
607 to Lelia, 616: American Epistles,
617: Fortune's fickleness, 628: song,
634: Thanks for a Place, 635: song
from the Italian, 640: translation from
Monti, 664: sonnet, ib.

Poets of Rural Life, their character, 153.
Poetry, Campbell's Lectures on, 1: Greek
Poetry, ib.: earliest Greek poetry not to
be traced, ib.: Homer alludes to poets
who preceded him, ib.: his idea of the
poetic character high and honourable, 2:
bards the inmates of Greek palaces, ib. :
probable cause of the acquaintance of
Homer with manners and human nature,
3: bardic profession did not commence
with Homer, 4: poets recorded by Ho-
mer, ib. opinions respecting Orpheus
and his poetry, ib. 5, 6: no vestige of
philosophical and religious mysticism in
Homer, 7: the era of his poetry not as-
certained, 8: opinions regarding their
unity, 8, 9: preserved by tradition for an
uncertain period, 10: influence of the
Trojan expedition on the minds of the
Greeks, ib. 11: a degree of civilization
shown in Homer's writings, 11: com-
parison between the age of Trojan and
Chivalric heroism, 12: the interest at-
tached to the characters in the Iliad, 13
and 14: undignified passages in, 15: the
Cyclic poets, 225: Ulysses and the Odys-
sey, ib. 226, 227: classical poetry defi-
cient in depicting female refinement,
ib.: remarks on the Odyssey continued,
228, 229, 230, and 231: opinion of Alex-
andrian critics on the termination of, ib. :
character of Penelope, ib.: a sentiment
of Ulysses worthy of better deeds, 232:
the Margites, account of, 233: Homer's
Battle of the Frogs and Mice, ib: hymns
attributed to Homer, ib. 234, 235, 236,
237: whether Homer or Hesiod be the
more ancient poet, 238: Hesiod's free
spirit seems to prove him the latest, 238,
239: his character, ib.: his Works and
Days, 240: his harshness respecting wo-
men, ib.: earliest Greek poets, Asiatics,
461: fine arts earliest cultivated in Asia-Pride, English, 135.

Politics, music of, illustrated, 177.
Political Economy, on the study of, 258.
Portraiture, affectation in, 635.
Posterity, 277: letter from to the Editor,
278: extract from the Old Hampstead
Magazine, 279: letter to the Editor of,
283: from Anthony Sanguine, 285.

Q

Quintain, exercise of, once common in Lon-
don, 644: set up at Cornhill, ib.

R

tic Greece, 463: the climate and soil of Pseudo-Gentlemen, description of, 303.
Asiatic Greece favourable to their rise
and refinement, 464: the Delphic Ora-
cle, ib.: counteracting causes to retard
the advancement of the mother country,
465: Crete the earliest civilized of the
Greek States, recorded by Homer, ib.:
Thales, ib.: Corinth never the seat of
the Muses, 466: Doric States of Greece,
466: Callinus, Archilochus, and Sappho,
associated with new strains of poetry,
467: Greek music improved after the
Homeric age, ib. : Pindar and the Greek
ode, 468: the crisis of lyrical excellence
in Greece, ib.: could hardly occur twice
in the history of the world, ib.: Alc-
man, scantiness of his relics, 469: loss
of Greek poetry to be regretted, 470:
would have thrown great light on na-
tional manners, ib.

Racine, character of, 419.
Reconcilement, lines on, 85.
Revolution in Fashion, 388: attempts in
high-life to repel innovators, 390, 391 :
seven-shilling subscription at Almack's,
ib.: the ascendancy of birth duly secured
by it, 392.

Richmond, description of, 56: the park,
58: excursion to, 213.
Roman Catholics, parties amongst, in Ire-
land, 432.

Roman Empire, its extent, 585: divisions
of the people into classes, 590.
Rousseau (J. Jaques), Life of, by De Mus.

670

set, 640; character of the work, ib,: re-
marks on his peculiarities, 641: effect
of his first success, 653: object of the
Heloise and Emile, 655: quarrel with
Hume, 656: his persecutions, 657: his
conduct at a dinner-party, 658: conver-
sational powers, 660.

Rural Life, poets of, 153: Cowper, 154:
character of his mind, 155: the merits
of Cowper in purifying devotional feel-
ings, 156.

S

Sarcophagus in the British Museum, lines
to, 583.

Schiller, a tale from the German of, 249.
Sheridan (Dr.) apologue of, versified, 37.
Sismondi on the Middle Ages, 537 : intro-
ductory remarks, ib.: fall of the Roman
empire in the West, 585: extent of the
whole empire, 586: state of the people,
590: existence of great cities, 592.
Snuff-taking, 364.

Social Converse, in France and England,
604.

Song of Hybrias the Cretan, 456.
Sonnet from Filicaja, 313: to Lelia, 318:
to a Friend on her Birth-day, 397: to the
Turquoise, 437: on Female Beauty, 450:
to Echo, 454: at Parting, 562 on hear-
ing a Lady sing, ib.: from Alfieri, 607:
to Lelia, 616: translation from Monti,
664: sonnet, 664.

No, I. 47: by whom contemned, ib.:
reasons why English tragedy remains
unrefined, 48: earliest French drama,
character of, 50: remarks on early French
dramatists, Lazare Baif, 51: Jodelle, 54:
No. II. 121: on French dramatists, La
Peruse, ib.: Jacques Grevin, 122: Jean
de la Paille, ib.: the younger Baif, 124:
Robert Garnier, ib.: No. III. 413: com-
mencement of the romantic school, 413:
the character of Hardy, 414: on the Eli-
zabethan age, 414: Corneille, 418: Ra-
cine imperfectly translated, 419: Vol-
taire ib.

Travels, of Pearce's, 251. 455: of Hum-
boldt, 314.

Traveller (The), 576: at home, 577: in
France, 590: in Italy, 582.
Tricks of Speaking, 18.

Triton of the Minnows, verses, 547.
Turquoise, sonnet to the, 437.
U

Ugolino, 327.

Universities, Spanish, description of, 286.

V

Velocipede, conjectures on, 282.
Versailles, lines addressed to the orange
tree at, 386.

Vintner of Tilleda, a tale, 571.
Voltaire, some remarks on his dramatic
power, 419.

W

Spain, letters from, 25, 157, 286, 368, 512, Walks in a Garden, 41: delights of, 42:

608.

Speaking, tricks of, 18.

Specimen of a Prospective Newspaper, 129
to 134.

Spring (The first), a story from the Ger-
man, 533.

Stanzas to a Beauty, 444: on a Lady, 501.
Stolberg, lines from the German of, 495.
Studious, Gymnastics of the, 491: various

kinds of, ib. : riding, 492: walking, 493.
Sunday in Paris, humorous description of,

499.

Superstitions of Highlanders and London-
ers, 593: instances of, 594. 597, 598.
600.

T

Tilleda, the Vintner of, 571.
Tollens, lines from the Dutch of, 16.
Tourist, journal of a, 445. 629.
Town and Country, remarks on, 86: man-
ners of the town, 87 to 92: of the coun-
try, 93 to 96.

Nature's mode of propagating the seeds
of the Dandelion, 42: vegetable hygro-
meter of Mr. Edgworth, 43: surprising
number of seeds from one plant, ib.:
improvement of flowers, and of the
Dahlia, 44: the Mesembryanthemum,
and extraordinary provision of Nature
for, 45: Sunflowers, ib.: evaporation of
flowers, ib.: mineral substances secreted
by flowers, 46: lines in praise of Na-
ture, 47: remark of Burke, 173: changes
of vegetable matter, 175: Bacon's fond-
ness for gardening, ib.: Chinese skill in
cultivating flowers, ib.: the Date palm,
ib.: rise of sap in plants, 176: Bacon's
remark respecting, ib.: verses of Cowper
on, ib.

Wassail-bowl, once used in London at
Christmas, 642: its origin, 645.
Woods, fragments from, 60.

Y

Tragedy, French and English, criticism on, Youth and love, lines on, 276.

ERRATA.

Page 3, note, line 8, for garde de corps, read garde du corps.

547, line 8 from bottom, for eatacy, read ecstasy.

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New Monthly Magazine.

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

LECTURES ON POETRY, BY T. CAMPBELL.

LECTURE III.

Greek Poetry.

It is impossible to trace the majestic stream of Greek poetry to its earliest fountains. That Greece had strains anterior to the Iliad and Odyssey, is evident from the nature of poetical composition, as well as from the works of Homer. Greek poetry could not have dispensed with the usual progressiveness of human art, or have sprung up at once to the full effulgence of epic excellence, like a tropical sunrise unpreceded by a dawn. Accordingly we find Homer, as we might expect, alluding to the heroic songsters of a former period, and describing their condition with that air of probability which distinguishes all his pictures of human manners. He speaks apparently with the full breast of a poet whose ambition had been fired and fostered by having seen prescriptive honours attached to the poetical art. Deliberate and circumstantial, he seems assured of commanding deep attention and implicit belief: and though he is too simple, and too proudly embarked in his subject, to advert either to himself or his hearers, yet whenever he names the poets of heroic ages, he throws a glory over their memory, an air of magic over their influence, and attaches a sacred importance to their vocation. The value which he attributes to poetical inspiration is intrinsic, and independent of all other gifts and accomplishments. The characters of bard and prophet, so often identified among a rude people, are completely separated by him. He neither attributes the power of song to any of his seers, nor that of prescience to any of his poets; nor do the latter ever affect to be orators, highly as the gift of eloquence is described to have been held in the Homeric times; but, holding a dignified reserve among the loquacious Greeks, they are the only personages who never trouble us with orations. It is true that in pretensions to

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* Nec dubitari debet quin fuerint ante Homerum poeta.-CICERO, Brut. I. cap. 18. Only one of his poets (Phemius) speaks, in the whole course of the Odyssey, but once, and that once in order to save his life.-ODYss, xxii. 345.