The history of the rise and progress of poetry
Subtitle: through it's [sic] several species
By: written by Dr. Brown
Publisher: Printed by J. White and T. Saint for L. Davis and C. Reymers, London
Published: 1764
Place of publication: Newcastle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Poetry; History and criticism; Early works to 1800
Other titles: The rise and progress of poetry.
Notes: "This work is not designed as a mere historical deduction of facts; but chiefly as an investigation of the causes that produced them." - p. 10.

A later edition of his "A dissertation on the rise, union, and power ... of poetry and music", 1763, with the music left out. Cf. Advertisement, p. [iii].

Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: - The design. - Of melody, dance, and poem, in the savage state. -Of the natural consequences of a supposed civilization. - An application of these principles to the melody, dance, and poem of ancient Greece. - Of the progressions of the greater kinds of poetry in ancient Greece. Of the origin and progressions of comedy in ancient Greece. Of the rise and progress of the pastoral species. - Of the rise and progress of the lesser kinds of poetry in ancient Greece. - Of the rise and progressions of poetry in other European countries. - Of the progressions of poetry in China, Peru, and India. - Of the state of poetry among the ancient Hebrews. - Of the state of poetry in ancient Rome. - Conclusion.