Essays critical and imaginative
By: by Professor Wilson.
Contributors: Ferrier, James Frederick, 1808-1864, ed.
Series: The works of Professor Wilson,; v. 5-8
Publisher: W. Blackwood and sons
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Subjects: Homer -- Translations.; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Streams. Meg Dods's cookery. There is death in the pot.  Gymnastics. Cruikshank on time. Health and longevity. On early rising. Old North and young North. The man of ton. The loves of the poets. Education of the people. The young lady's book. Days departed, or Banwell hill. Wordsworth.; title: v. 2. Christopher at the Lakes. Tennyson's poems. Memoir of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, bart. American poetry: William Cullen Bryant. Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott. On the punishment of death. Anglimania.; title: v. 3. The genius and character of Burns. Speech at the Burns festival. Christopher on Colonsay. Coleridge's poetical works. Tupper's Geraldine. De Berenger's Helps and hints. Macaulay's Lays of ancient Rome. A few words on Shakespeare.; title: v. 4. Homer and his translators. Greek drama: The Agamemnon of Æschylus.