IV. The Preface to Waller's Posthumous Poems, 1690. 278

POETRY AT THE DEATH OF

SHAKESPEARE.

POETRY AT THE DEATH OF

SHAKESPEARE.

THE time seems to have arrived at last, when we may contemplate without passion that precise, mundane, and rhetorical order of poetry which is

p. 173.

ERRATUM.

2 lines from bottom, For "Cowley" read "Crashaw".

cision of the poets of antiquity, to write in English as Horace and Ovid were then supposed to have written in Latin,—that is to say, with a polished and eclectic elegance1. The prestige of these

1 Horace will our superfluous Branches prune,
Give us new rules, and set our Harp in tune,
Direct us how to back the winged Horse,
Favour his flight and moderate his force.

Waller to Roscommon, 1684.