Collected Essays of W.P. Ker, Volume 1

admiration adventure Ancients Ben Jonson Burns Burns's Byron character classical comedy contemporaries Corneille criticism Dante discourse Dramatic Poesy Dryden Edinburgh eighteenth century England English epic Essay of Dramatic fashion French French Revolution genius Guy Mannering Hazlitt hero Heroic Plays Heroic Poem historian Homer honour Horace Walpole Hôtel de Bourgogne House of Stuart imagination Italian Johnson Joseph Ritson Joseph Warton judgment Keats King knew language learning letters literary literature living Lord lyric Macaulay Milton mind modern Molière Nature never novels Ohthere opinion original passage poet poetical poetry politics Pope praise Preface prose readers rhyme Ritson Rob Roy Robert Walpole romance Scotland Scott Scottish Shakespeare sort speak spirit story style Tasso Tennyson things Thomas Warton thought tragedy true Unity verse W. P. Ker Walpole's Waverley Waverley Novels wonderful words Wordsworth writing wrote