ANECDOTES

1

OF

POLITE LITERATURE.

In FIVE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON,

Printed for G. BURNET, at Bishop Burnet's Head,

ANECDOTES

OF

POLITE LITERATURE.

S

SECT. I.

Of PASTORAL POETRY.

O many pens have been employed at different times on this popular subject, that my only business will be to explain the real and essential qualities of a pastoral poem. A point concerning which most critics differ.

Few species of poetry have excited more

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