Strictures on the Literary Character and Writings of Anacreon Moore; with an Analytical Review of His Last Publication Entitled "Epistles"
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Genre: | Review |
Subjects: | Botany, Breeding |
Describes the poet Thomas ('Anacreon') Moore as having 'introduced among us a species of poetry peculiarly his own.' Continues: 'He is the father of the English amatory ode; if he has not actually given birth to it, he has given it a beauty and order which it before wanted. It perhaps existed before him, but it existed as a wild flower scattered in the waste of miscellaneous literature, and in want of cultivation, with half its natural beauty and fragrance; Mr. Moore has transplanted it into his garden, and under his nurturing hands we behold its natural luxuriance.' (344) | |
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