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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCLII. FEBRUARY, 1845. VOL. LVII.

CONTENTS.

NORTH'S SPECIMENS OF THE BRITISH CRITICS, 133

THE TOWER OF LONDON. BY THOMAS ROSCOE, 158

POEMS AND BALLADS OF GOETHE. NO. III., 165

SPAIN AS IT IS, 181

THE SUPERFLUITIES OF LIFE, 194

THE OVERLAND PASSAGE, 204

MESMERISM, 219

AESTHETICS OF DRESS. ABOUT A BONNET, 242

GERMAN-AMERICAN ROMANCES, 251

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BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE

No. CCCLII. FEBRUARY, 1845. VOL. LVII.

NORTH'S SPECIMENS OF THE BRITISH CRITICS.

DRYDEN.

Poetry, according to Lord Bacon a Third Part of Learning, must be a
social interest of momentous power. That Wisest of Men--so our dear
friends may have heard--extols it above history and above philosophy, as
the more divine in its origin, the more immediately and intimately
salutary and sanative in its use. Are not Shakspeare and Milton two of
our greatest moral teachers? CRITICISM opens to us the poetry we
possess; and, like a magnanimous kingly protector, shelters and fosters
all its springing growths. What is criticism as a science? Essentially
this--FEELING