Show I Poets in lip Reprint R print r. r S. S Ej Eighteenth ht Century Verse Criticized A reprint of or Minor Pods Poets of t the c Eighteenth Ce Century tu edited e d with an n introduction by Hugh Pans Pans-on Faus Fausset et published in London by 3 J. J M. M Dent Sons L Ltd d a and d in New York b by E E. P P. P D Dutton is now to o be bad had in the Everyman's Library edition To some critics the eighteenth century was an age of prose e and andreason andreazon reason eason to others it was vulgar to most o com com- of or b both th That the modern point of oC view in regard to the eighteenth th ce century is in process roc s o of readjustment is already clear clean l a Count describes describes' it as s tile the period of Europ Europe's s utmost p perfection per per- r- r so BO far attained Nineteenth century critics were too oo close to the tho Romantics in sensibility sen- sen sea sen as they the were in ime to o d do dohem them hem Justice The twentieth cen- cen Century century tury ury acc acceptance acceptance- c century cen- cen tury tulY ury revulsion from the tho Romantics Is 3 seeking Its owa own own- r re reason aSon on for tor s 's such ch codification and finding finding- ill It lacking In n evidence nce That the temper of the eighteenth poets poets' was was' unImaginative un- un Im Imaginative that thit they made use ex exclusively elusively o of a. a a n poetic dl diction dicton tron that most mast 1 1st st oC of Lit the dead matt matter r In In th their lr p is the result of ot s such d diction CU n is found now pw now to tobe be beI I less ess ss of oC am tn In adv adverse criticism than WaS was formerly suppose What were once cor considered l' l faults a are are f found now to t f not not only a tashi fashion n nIn In n diction but ta a a pe personal onal tem tem- per jer i. i Tl Tire The e minor r poets represented Inthe in he the voh volume mC are Coun Coun- Countess tess of died in Jn 1720 Thomas P Parnell 1718 1679 1679 1 Mat Matthew t thew hew Green J 1737 96 John Dyer Der 1758 1700 William mc Collins I ns 17 1721 1159 1 1759 S |