German (North), peasantry, 268: intro- birds and animals, 315 : cannibalism of

ductory remarks, 269, 270: tenures and the Indians, 316: roasted monkeys, 318.
contributions, 271: oppressive treatment the Otomacs, or earth-eaters, ib.
of, 272, 273, 274, 275: strength and Hume (David), his quarrel with Rous-
spirit of, examined, 404: debasement of

seau, 656.
spirit in the Pomeranian peasantry, 407 : Hybrias the Cretan's song, 466.
latterly their condition amended, 408.
literature : Mines of the East,

1
565.

Indians, American, their eloquence, 60.
Good Hope (Cape of), travels in, 438 : Ireland, the King's visit to, 427 : Henry
description of Cape Town, 439: ac-

the Second's visit to, ib.: Cromwell, 428:
count of Southern Africa, 438: migra-

William III, 429: its relative situation
tion to, 441.

to the King, 430 : Orange party in,
Greece, emancipation of, 471: Grecian

431 : Catholic aristocracy, party of, 432:
navy, 472: land forces, 473: the Kapi-

Catholic radicals, 433 : Catholic priest-
tanys, ib.

hood, 434: reception of the King, 436.
Grevin (Jacques), French dramatist, re. Italy, Briton's lament for, 17: observa-
marks on his plays, 122.

tions on, 75, 201.
Grimm's Ghost, 196: the artist's letter.

J
box, ib.: certain resolutions respecting, Jackson the pugilist, his fine make and
196:

: case and legal opinion on, 197 : strength, 557.
Mrs. Meadowcroft's letter to Mr. 0-Jesuits in Spain, their influence and cha-
198: Alderman Dowgate to

ferent parties, 436: how only the King Morgan (Lady), her work on Italy, 75:
could have formed a correct notion of remarks on Turin, 76: Milan, 77: Co-
the country, 437.

mo, 80: Pavia, ib.: Genoa, 81: Pia-
Kyffaus Mountain, 146, 347, 569.,

cenza, 82: Bologna, 82 : staie of socie-
L

ty, 201 : religious ceremonies, ib.: cere-
La Fayette (Mad.) on the novels of, 548 : monies on Holy Thursday, 202 : on
memoirs of, ib.

Good Friday, 204: on Easter-Sunday,
Language (English), innovations in, 308. 206: English language and literature
La Peruse, remarks on his drama the studied at Naples, 207 : Letter to her
Medea, 121.

Reviewers, 329.
Learning (deep), letter on the vanity of, Mountain King (The), from a Swedish
381.

Legend, 319.
Lectures on Poetry (Campbell's), lecture Mummy (Belzoni's), lines to, 128.

Ill. 1: IV. 225: part 1. lecture V. 461. Music of Politics, 177: influence of music
Lelia, sonnets to, 318, 616.

upon government, 179 : instruments for
Letters from Spain, by Leucadio Doblado,

legislative assemblies, 181.
No. III. 25 : No. IV. 157: No. V. 286 :

N
No. VI. 368: No. VII. 512: No. VIII. Napoleon and St. Helena, 442, 443, 444 :
608.

view of bis life and character, 182: mi.
Letters and Letter-writers, on, 142: cha- litary renown transient, 511: his great

racter of Mad. de Sevigné as a letter-wri- resolution and success, 184 : Madame
ter, 143: of Hor. Walpole, ib.: of Lord de Stael's portrait of him, 185: Mr. El.
Shaftesbury, 144: of Hume, 145: of| lis's interview with him, ib. : greatness
Richardson, ib.: of English female let. of physiognomy, 186: comparison be-
ter-writers, 146: letter on happiness, tween him and Cromwell, 188.
245: on the vanity of deep learning, Newspaper (prospective), specimen of,
353: poetical from America, 585: to 129.
the Editor of the New Monthly Maga- Nice men, 321 : the nice-tasted man, ib.:
zine, 278: to the Editor of the Old the Ladies' man, 324.
Hampstead Magazine, 283: to the Old Noise, man naturally fond of it, 260 : ex-
Hampstead Magazine, from A. San- emplifications, 261.
guine, 285.

North German Peasantry, on the, 268.
Literature, on German popular and tradi-

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

translation from Horace, ib. i on Italy,
Poets of Rural Life, their character, 153. 17: Macpherson's lament, 24: lines on
Poetry, Campbell's Lectures on, 1: Greek Man, 37: on Botany, 46: translation

Poetry, ib. : earliest Greek poetry not to from Horace, ib. 55: on a piece of the
be traced, ib.: Homer alludes to poets Palm from the Acropolis at Athens, 59:
who preceded him, ib.: his idea of the verses on Reconcilement, 85: to Bel-
poetic character high and honourable, 2: zoni's Mummy, 128: on Love, 224: on
bards the inmates of Greek palaces, ib.: Youth and Love, 276: the Earl Bristol's
probable cause of the acquaintance of Farewell, 277: to the Daisy, 285: Cant,
Homer with manners and human nature, 302: sonnet from Filicaja, 313: to Lelia,
3: bardic profession did not commence 318: the Mountain King, a Swedish
with Homer, 4: poets recorded by Ho- legend, 319: Ugolino, 327: lines given
mer, ib.: opinions respecting Orpheus with a picture to my Brother, 367 : The
and his poetry, ib. 5, 6: no vestige of Return of Renaud, a song, 377: to the
philosophical and religious mysticisin in Orange-tree at Versailles, 386 : to a
Homer, 7: the era of his poetry not as- Friend on her Birth-day, 397 : Nurse's
certained, 8: opinions regarding their song from the German, 403 : song, by
unity, 8, 9: preserved by tradition for an 'T. Campbell, 421: sonnet to the Tur-
uncertain period, 10: influence of the quoise, 437: stanzas to a Beauty, 444 :
Trojan expedition on the minds of the song, 449: sonnet, 450 : epigram from
Greeks, ib. 11: a degree of civilization Pananti, 451: sonnet to Echo, 454: to
shown in Homer's writings, 11: com- Ugo Foscolo, 481: to a Friend with a
parison between the age of Trojan and Seal, 490: Cain on the Sea-shore, 495:
Chivalric heroism, 12: the interest at- Sunday in Paris, 499 : on Lady W-1,
tached to the characters in the Iliad, 13 501 : the Triton of the Minnows, 547 :
and 14: undignified passages in, 15: the dirge for Mungo Park, 548 : sonnet at
Crclic poets, 225: Ulysses and the Odys- Parting, 562 : on listening to vocal mu-
sey, ib. 226, 227 : classical poetry defi. sic, ib.: lines written in the Country,
cient in depicting female refinement, 582: to the Sarcophagus in the British
ib.: remarks on the Odyssey continued, Museum, 583 : written in the Volume of
228, 229, 230, and 231: opinion of Alex- a Friend, 603: translation from Alfieri,
andrian critics on the termination of, ib. : 607 : to Lelia, 616: American Epistles,
character of Penelope, ib.: a sentiment 617 : Fortune's fickleness, 628 : song,
of Ulysses worthy of better deeds, 232: 634: Thanks for a Place, 635: song
the Margites, account of, 233: Homer's from the Italian, 640 : translation from
Battle of the Frogs and Mice, ib: hymns Monti, 664: sonnet, ib.
attributed to Homer, ib. 234, 235, 236, Politics, music of, illustrated, 177.
237: whether Homer or Hesiod be the Political Economy, on the study of, 258.
more ancient poet, 238: Hesiod's free Portraiture, affectation in, 635.
spirit seems to prove him the latest, 238, Posterity, 277 : letter from to the Editor,
239: his character, ib.: his Works and 278: extract from the Old Hampstead
Days, 240: bis harshness respecting wo- Magazine, 279: letter to the Editor of,
men, ib.: earliest Greek poets, Asiatics, 283: from Anthony Sanguine, 285.
461 : fine arts earliest cultivated in Asia- Pride, English, 135,
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.

Q
cle, ib.: counteracting causes to retard Quintain, exercise of, once common in Lon-
the advancement of the mother country,

set, 610; character of the work, ib,: re- No, I. 47: by whom contemned, i6.:
marks on his peculiarities, 641: effect reasons why English tragedy remains
of his first success, 653: object of the unrefined, 48 : earliest French drama,
Heloise and Emile, 655: quarrel with character of, 50: remarks on early French
Hume, 656: his persecutions, 657: his dramatists, Lazare Baif, 51 : Jodelle, 54:
conduct at a dinner-party, 658: conver- No. II. 121: on French drainatists, La
sational powers, 660.

Peruse, ib.: Jacques Grevin, 122: Jean
Rural Life, poets of, 153: Cowper, 154: de la Paille, ib. : the younger Baif, 124:

character of his mind, 155: the nerits Robert Garnier, ib.: No. III. 413: com-
of Cowper in purifying devotional feel. mencement of the romantic school, 413 :
ings, 156.

the character of Hardy, 414: on the Eli-
S

zabethan age, 414: Corneille, 418: Ra-
Sarcophagus in the British Museum, lines cine imperfectly translated, 419 : Vol-
to, 583.

taire ib.
Schiller, a tale from the German of, 249.

Travels, of Pearce's, 251, 455: of Ilum-
Sheridan (Dr.) apologue of, versified, 37.

boldt, 314.
Sismondi on the Middle Ages, 537 : intro- Traveller (The), 576: at home, 577: in

ductory remarks, ib.: all of the Roman France, 590: in Italy, 582.
empire in the West, 585: extent of the Tricks of Speaking, 18.
whole empire, 586 : state of the people, Triton of the Minnows, verses, 547.
590: existence of great cities, 592.

Turquoise, sonnet to the, 437.
Snuff-taking, 364

U
Social Converse, in France and England, Ugolino, 327.
604.

Universities, Spanish, description of, 286.
Song of Hybrias the Cretan, 456.
Sonnet

from Filicaja, 313 : to Lelia, 318: Velocipede, conjectures on, 282.
to a Friend on her Birth-day, 397 : ta the Versailles, lines addressed to the orange
Turquoise, 437: on Female Beauty, 450 :
to Echo, 454: at Parting, 562: on hear- Vintner of Tilleda, a tale, 571.

tree at, 386.
ing a Lady sing, ib.: from Alfieri, 607: Voltaire, some remarks on his dramatic
to Lelia, 616: translation from Monti,

664: sonnet, 664.
Spain, letters from, 25, 157, 286, 368, 512,
608.

Walks in a Garden, 41 : delights of, 42:
Speaking, tricks of, 18.

Nature's mode of propagating the seeds
Specimen of a Prospective Newspaper, 129

of the Dandelion, 42 : vegetable hygro-
to 134.

meter of Mr. Edgworth, 43: surprising
Spring (The first), a story from the Ger- number of seeds from one plant, ib.:

improvement of fowers, and of the
Stanzas to a Beauty, 444: on a Lady, 501.

Dahlia, 44: the Mesembryanthemum,
Stolberg, lines from the German of, 495.

and extraordinary provision of Nature
Studious, Gymnastics of the, 491 : various for, 45: Sunflowers, ib.: evaporation of
kinds of, ib. : riding, 492: walking, 493.

flowers, ib. : mineral substances secreted
Sunday in Paris, humorous description of, by flowers, 46: lines in praise of Na-
499,

ture, 47: remark of Burke, 173: changes
Superstitions of Highlanders and London- of vegetable matter, 175: Bacon's fond.

ers, 593: instances of, 594, 597, 598. ness for gardening, ib. : Chinese skill in
600.

cultivating flowers, ib.: the Date palm,
T

ib.: rise of sap in plants, 176: Bacon's
Tilleda, the Vintner of, 571.

remark respecting, ib.: verses of Cowper
Tollens, lines from the Dutch of, 16,
Tourist, journal of a, 445. 629.

Wassail-bowl, once used in London at
Town and Country, remarks on, 86: man-

Christmas, 642: its origin, 645.
ners of the town, 87 to 92: of the coun- Woods, fragments from, 60,
try, 93 to 96.

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

power, 419.

W

man, 533.

on, ib.

THE

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

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 • Nec dubitari debet quin fuerint ante Homerum poetæ.-Ciceno, Brut. I.