Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-12-26
The author's literary Mde@,
AND THE
POETS pRGMPYNR.
Designed to fdcilfdfe the e7'e1cises q y0"hf"
genius il, the
COMPOSITION or PROSE AND VERSE.
By ls.2JfUEL WO0DU0R1H
GENERAL CONTENTS OF THE WORK.

By SAMUEL WOODU0RIW
GENERAL coNrsSTs OF THE WORK.
l. Elements ofEnglsh C ompos1rIoS,r reduced
to plain practical RuIEs drawn from the VIII
tings of Lord Kaims, Blair, Walker Irving, &c.
| H. Rules for the construction of ENG1isH
VEnsE, by which the most ordinary as well as
most brilliant ideas may be readily expressed
in smooth harmonious numbers. 1t is not the
object of these Rules to accommodate the art
to the Practice and thus to tolerate the nume-
rous errors and unwarrantable liberties OF " ce-
ie6rated boetS, merely because they are cete-
brated; but rather to form critical TEST by
which such errors and liberties may be detect
| ed and avoided Ii is intended to show, not
how Poetry has been, but how it ought to be
written.
These Rules, which are few, plain, and
easily comprehended, are Invested Of all per-
picking phraseoogy, and adapted to the .Nsyc
SchooI of Poetry, which now obtains in Great
Britain, aud to which public taste, on both SIDES
the Atlantic, is principally indebted for its re-
cent reformation and present refinement.
The Iletrfcal Gamut, on which these Rules
are predicatcd, will be found a valuable auxllia-
~, not only to the pupil, whose unhedged
muse has never yet ventured TO soar into the
sublime regions Of fancy, but, also, to the ac-
conplished "master of the Tyre" whose dar-
ing and successful fights nave ALREADY scaieol
lhe pIicipltal summit OF mount fai nassus. ;, II
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'oh ls as "a zen as us various
r. a. anu uereh, ): 5 'l.'oaloes WI, permit
the requisite rbyme hut also WITH eT,er,, nncss
sary instruction for its proper application.
VIII. But another (and, perhaps, not the
least importanD use Of this part Of the work.
remains 10 DC mentioned. From what has al
ready been sad, 1t Will be perceived that this
1.ns1,.IS D'el1 Gu IS ai'o' III user Dcno"-
a,y oS et x"o.H''o's' Oolh "co,iec-
thoughts. as are to be found in the hes, Eng,;sh
poets-such as illusions. smiles. descrint;ops
and characters of persons and th;nps Il thms
becomes textbook of .lyouoa. suitable for al,
most anv subject. arranged under snnronr,at, :,
heads. and referred TO IN conioos ;nder =,
will. also. in most. cases. snbserye all the mr.
noses ofa Dct;o,ory IF Fh;Jbs,o o,,,, p,a,o,,,,
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