B66 1969 ERRATA. Page 7, 1. 7.-For "more poetical than a cultivated garden,” rend "more poetical than that of a cultivated garden." 29, 1. 10.-For "froth of a coffee-pot,” read “fumes of a chocolate-pol.” 30, 1. 3.-Dele "here." 1. 5.-Dele "feel." 37, 1, 12.-For "regret,” read “ reject." 44, 1. 9.-For "our beauties,” read "her beauties." 539 674 3784 A LETTER, &c. 108151-1140 A SIR, Short time since a friend of yours, and one of the most distinguished poets of the present day, Mr. MOORE, informed me that there had appeared, in the Morning Chronicle, an extract from your Specimens of British Poets, entitled, "CAMPBELL'S Answer to BowLES." I have since read, with much pleasure, the work from which the extract was taken; and I beg to return you my thanks, for the kind manner with which my name is introduced, though you profess to differ from me, and state at large the grounds of that difference, on a point →of criticism. The criticism of mine, which 707- Ha you have discussed, is that which appears in the last volume of the last edition of Pope's Works, entitled, "On the Poetical Character of Pope." As the opinion pronounced by the editor of the Morning Chronicle will probably be the opinion of all who read, without much reflection, not my criticism, but your representation of it; I am bound, in justice to myself, to state the grounds of my proposition clearly; to meet the arguments you have brought against it, manfully but most respectfully; and to make the public (at least that part of the public which may be interested in such a discussion) a judge between us! I feel it the more incumbent on me to do this, knowing the deserved popularity of your name, and the impression which your representation of my arguments must make on the public; though I must confess, it does appear to me that you could not have read the criticism which you discuss, First, then, to state the grounds of that criticism clearly; it was, verbatim, as follows: "All images drawn from what is BEAUTIFUL "or SUBLIME in the WORKS of NATURE, are "MORE beautiful and sublime than images drawn "from art, and are therefore more poetical. In "like manner, those PASSIONS of the HUMAN "HEART which belong to nature in general, 66 are, per se, more adapted to the HIGHER "SPECIES of poetry, than those which are de"rived from incidental and transient manners,” |