Lectures on the English poets: I. Introductory. On poetry in general. II. On Chaucer and Spenser. III. On Shakespeare and Milton. IV. On Dryden and Pope. V. On Thomson and Couper. VI. On Swift, Young, Gray, Collins, etc. VII. On Burns, and the old English ballads. VIII. On the living poets.--The spirit of the age: Jeremy Beacham. William Godwin. Mr. Coleridge. Rev. Mr. Irving. The late Mr. Horne Tooke. Sir Walter Scott. Lord Byron. Mr. Southey. Mr. Wordsworth. Sir James Macintosh. Mr. Malthus. Mr. Gifford. Mr. Jeffrey. Mr Brougham. Sir F. Burdett. Lord Eldon. Mr. Wilberforce. Mr. Canning. Mr. Campbell. Mr. Crabbe. Mr. T. Moore. Mr. Leigh Hunt. Elia. Geoffrey Crayon.