THE EARLY FRENCH POETS, A SERIES OF NOTICES AND TRANSLATIONS: WITH AN Introductory Sketch of the History of French Poetry. BY THE REV. HENRY CARY, M.A. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN. MDCCCXLVI. Shortly will be published, THE ODES OF PINDAR, IN ENGLISH VERSE. SECOND EDITION, WITH NOTES, EDITED BY THE REV. HENRY CARY, M.A. Preparing for the Press, THE LITERARY JOURNAL AND LETTERS OF THE REV. HENRY FRANCIS CARY. WITH A MEMOIR. BY HIS SON, THE REV. HENRY CARY, M. A LIVES OF ENGLISH POETS, FROM JOHNSON TO KIRKE WHITE, DESIGNED AS A CONTINUATION OF JOHNSON'S LIVES. BY THE LATE REV. HENRY FRANCIS CARY, M.A. TRANSLATOR OF DANTE. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCCXLVI. EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE papers of which this volume is composed originally appeared in the London Magazine, between the years 1821 and 1824. It was the author's intention to continue the series of Lives to a later period, but a change in the proprietorship of the Magazine prevented the completion of his plan. They are now for the first time published in a separate form, and under their author's name. In seeing the work through the press, the Editor has had occasion only to alter one or two particulars in the Life of Goldsmith, which the labours of that Poet's more recent biographer, Mr. Prior, have subsequently elucidated. WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD. Dec. 1, 1845. HENRY CARY. |