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Part 1 18th, 19th and early 20th Century criticism: Matthew Arnold on18th century poetry, (1880); Samuel Johnson on Thomson, (1781); WilliamHazlitt on Thomson, (1818); Samuel Johnson on Gray, (1781); WilliamWordsworth on Gray, (1802); Matthew Arnold on Gray, (1880); LeslieStephen on Gray, (c.1890); Sir Joshua Reynolds on Goldsmith, (c.1776);John Aiken on Goldsmith, (1796); Virginia Woolf on Goldsmith, (1934);William Hazlitt on Cowper, (1818); Walter Bagehot on Cowper, (1855);Leslie Stephen on Crabbe, (1874) and on Cowper, (1876); Virginia Woolfon Crabbe, (1950); David Nichol Smith on 18th century poetry (1926).Part 2 Poetics and poetic diction: personification - the language ofimagination and passion, Hugh Blair, (1783); 18th century poeticdiction, Geoffrey Tillotson, (1939); language as the dress of thought,P.W.K.Stone, (1967); the Augustan tradition, F.R.Leavis, (1936); theword "Romantic" in the 18th century, Logan Pearsall Smith, (1924);Collins - neoclassical and pre-romantic, A.S.P.Woodhouse, (1965);pre-romanticism, P.W.K.Stone, (1967). Part 3 Nature, landscape anddescription: Thomson's "Seasons" - nature, harmony and doubt, JohnChalker, (1969); descriptive poetry - Thomson's "Seasons", Hugh Blair,(1793); the "Prospect" poem, C.V.Deane, (1935); Thomson's description,Jean Hagstrum, (1958); retirement and nature in Thomson's "Seasons",John Chalker, (1969); description and reflection in Gray's "Elegy",Jean Hagstrum, (1958); Cowper, Wordsworth and nature, Vincent Newey(1982). Part 4 Poetry and society: Gray's latent political ideas,William Empson, (1935); Thomson and humanitarian feeling in the 18thcentury, John Butt, (1950); Thomson and the Golden Age, John Chalker,(1969); Gray's storied urn, Cleanth Brooks, (1947); Crabbe and socialquestions, R.B.Hatch, (1976); Peter Grimes - the humane representationof a barely human consciousness, Peter New, (1976). Part 5 Poetry andreligion: the all-animating joy within - Addison and Coleridge, GeorgeDekker, (1978); the classicism of Charles Wesley, D.Davie, (1952);nature, God and the imagination - from Thomson to Wordsworth, MaryJacobus, (1976); Cowper, nature and God, Vincent Newey, (1982). Part 6The self and the imagination: Thomson on imagination and the poet,Ralph Cohen, (1970); poet and actor in Gray and Goldsmith, R.W.Rader,(1974); Goldsmith and the poetic self, R.Lonsdale, (1978); Cowper's"The Task" - the poetry of introspection, Mary Jacobus, (1976).