Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-01-02
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POEI'S phOMpEEN.
Designed to facilitate the exercises Of yo1tLta
ge1aus in the
COMPOSITION OF PROSE AND VERSE.
BY S.2JgtEL HOODUORTH.
GENERAL CONTENTS or THE wopK.

COMPOSITION OF PROSE AND VERSE.
BY SAMUEL HOODFORTH
GENERAL CONTENTS OF THE WORK.
I. Elements OF English COMPOSITION reduced
| to plain practical Rules drawn from the wri-
| tings of Lord haims, Blair, Walker, Irving, &c.
II. Rules for the construction of ENGLISH
VERSE, by which the most ordinary as well as
| most brilliant ideas may be readily expressed
| in smooth harm onious numbers. 1t is not the
| object of these Rules to accommodate the ar
to the practice, and thus to tolerate the hume.
rous errors and unwarrantable liberties of " &C.
| lcbrated poets, merely because they are cele
6rdted; 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 d
| written.
| These Rules, which are few, plain, and
easily comprehendcd, are Invested Of all per
picking phraseology, and adapted 10 the .Nes,
| School Of Poetry, which now obtains in Great
Britain, aud 10 which public taste, on both sides
fthe Atlantic, is principally indebted for its re.
| cent reformation and present refinement.
| The .N3tf4cat GamRt, On which these Rules
| arc predcated, will betonnd valuable auXlia
ry, not only to the pupil, whose unfledged
! muse has never yet ventured to soar into the
sublime regions of fancy, but, also to the &C
| complished "master Of the lyre," whose dar.
| ing and successful flights have already scaled
the bicipital summit of mount Parnassus. II
will be seen that a Scale or Cannt is as appli
| cable to Poetry as to Music and thai the rlldi
mcnts of each art may, and ought 10 be, taught
| by a similar process.
Ill. Rules for FuScTuAT1oN, founded on the
| practice of the most correct writers IN the
| English Language; COMPRISING original strc
| lures on the Pnncfiation Of Ver5e.
". Epitbets and Synonyacs. suitable fol
any and every possible subject, winch subjects
are alphabetically arranged as heads iol
thevarious epihets applicable TO them. Thus
for instance, under the word ABsEvcE, will be
found every ad;ectiue which can properly agree
with that noun--as ca,rious long. brolonged. IT,
dio,s8, ma.ee!come, t,ainfh constrained fsTecffA
obGpi9us. SC Sc. Under rDooK. snch en;
thets as mumwimg silper, arassu. ba5bing.
enrqHnp, rplisberinp, t7nHae, ,neanderiag. SC
Under sKY--a-pre, cernledn, starrp. r01hlted
sbangled. &c. Under ryE-naei.ing beamy
s1a,k6ne,, biercing, &c. &c. ,,,t snourh h;.
been SAID to convince the reaflcr ot the ,t;l;tv
of this part of the work.
'. choice selection Of the most elegant
slgnlflcan', andapproved forms Recommending.
;nr ex-,rCss no, o,ro+;+,,la -: -: -,
49,; It's ''o' mae
breaking off subject introdlicinp s;,aiI;tudes
invoking MUSES.. concluding letters. &c. &c
VI. a nicfionory Of Rhymes, ON plan al
once novel, amusing, and instructive. All the
oigIo.taI .s J u ''ls isn su''se arc mere
anu ."t"'e" III sach Il manner as 10
, ',Dit uiJ poe,' IN d ''oleh' ana without 'hs
80 'o'o,e' ~ 'i'', an appropriate wore:
Mni1 ,1 perhaps, an hours mental e%erhon
"ou ,, no. nave o'ouSiii 10 ms recollection.
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