THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY, FROM THE CLOSE OF THE ELEVENTH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, THREE DISSERTATIONS: 1. OF THE ORIGIN OF ROMANTIC FICTION IN EUROPE. 2. ON THE INTRODUCTION OF LEARNING INTO ENGLAND. FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES, AND LATE A NEW EDITION CAREFULLY REVISED, WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE LATE MR. RITSON, MR. PARK, AND OTHER EMINENT ANTIQUARIES, AND BY THE EDITOR. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE. 1824. TO HIS GRACE PR 501 W3 1524 V.I GEORGE, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, MARQUIS OF BLANDFORD, KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, |