shed side by side. . . .
Then, in this happy isle, a Pope's pure strain
Sought the rapt soul to charm, nor sought in vain;
A polished nation's praise aspired to claim,
And raised the people's, as the poet's fame. . . .
[But] Milton, Dryden, Pope, alike forgot,
Resign their hallowed bays to Walter Scott."
--"English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."

[17] For the benefit of any reader who may wish to follow up the steps of
the Pope controversy, I give the titles of Bowles' successive pamphlets.
"The Invariable Principles of Poetry: A Letter to Thomas Campbell, Esq.,"
1819. "A Reply to an 'Unsentimental Sort of Critic,'" Bath, 1820. [This
was in answer to a review of "Spence's Anecdotes" in the _Quarterly_ in
October, 1820.] "A Vindication of the Late Editor of Pope's Works,"
London, 1821, second edition. [This was also a reply to the _Quarterly_
reviewer and to Gilchrist's letters in the _London Magazine_, and was
first printed in vol. xvii., Nos. 33, 34, and 35 of the _Pamphleteer_.]
"An Answer to Some Observations of Thomas Campbell, Esq., in his
Specimens of British Poets" (1822). "An Address to Thomas Campbell,
Esq., Editor of the _New Monthly Magazine_, in Consequence of an Article
in that Publication" (1822). "Letters to Lord Byron on a Question of
Poetical Criticism," London, 1822. "A Final Appeal to the Literary
Public Relative to Pope, in Reply to Certain Observations of Mr. Roscoe,"
London, 1823. "Lessons in Criticism to William Roscoe, Esq., with
Further Lessons in Criticism to a Quarterly Reviewer," London, 1826.
Gilchrist's three letters to Bowles were published in 1820-21.
M'Dermot's "Letter to the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Reply to His Letter to
Thomas Campbell, Esq., and to His Two Letters to Lord Byron," was printed
at London, in 1822.

[18] "With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
We could not laugh nor wail," etc.

"With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
Agape they heard me call," etc.

"Are those her sails that glance in the sun
Like restless gossamers?
Are those her ribs," etc.

_Cf._ "Christabel":

"Is the night chilly and dark?
The night is chilly, but not dark."

And see vol. i., p. 271.

[19] "Anima Poetae," 1895, p. 5. This recent collection of marginalia
has an equal interest with Coleridge's well-known "Table Talk." It is
the English equivalent of Hawthorne's "American Note Books," full