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APPENDIX C

LOCO-DESCRIPTIVE POEMS NOT KNOWN

TO BE MILTONIC1

A. HILL-POEMS

DENHAM, JOHN. Coopers hill, 1642.

MANNING, FRANCIS. Greenwich-hill, 1697.

MONCK, MARY. Moccoli (a villa on a hill near Florence].—Marinda, 1716, pp. 141-56.

HARDINGE, NICHOLAS. [Two poems on Knoll Hills.] -J.Nichols's Illustrations of Literary History, 1817, i. 650-55.

BARFORD, RICHARD. Knowls hill, in Essex, 1745. Not seen.

1746 w. 1777 p. ANON. (Miss A. CROSFIELD?) A description of the Castle hills, near Northallerton.—Town and Country Mag., ix. 605-6. (Blank verse.)

1747 1754

1755 1759

1769

RICH, E. P. Stinchcomb-hill, or the prospect, 1747.

BOWDEN, SAMUEL. A description of Chedder-cliffs and Mendip-hills. –
Poems, Bath, 1754, pp. 54-60.

DUCK, STEPHEN. Caesar's camp, or St. George's hill, 1755.

FORTESCUE, JAMES. Castle hill [two poems].-In Dissertations, Essays, etc., 1759. Not seen.

LYTTELTON, GEORGE, Lord. Mount Edgecumbe.-Poetical Works, 1801, pp. 118-19. (Octosyllabics.)

c. 1770 w. 1777 p. ROSCOE, WILLIAM. Mount Pleasant. -Poetical Works, 1857, pp. I-17.

1774

17772

1781

1784

1785

1788

1789

ANON. St. Thomas's mount, written by a gentleman in India, 2 cantos, 1774.-See Mo. Rev., i. 311-12.

MERCER, THOMAS. Arthur's seat.-Poems, Edin., 1774, pp. 1-41. (Octosyllabics.)

PYE, H. J. Faringdon hill, 2 books, Oxford, 1774.

ANON. The prospect from Malvern-hill, 1777.-See Crit. Rev., xliv. 475-7.
BEAVAN, EDWARD. Box-hill, 1777.-See ib., xliii. 158; no extract.
CRAWFORD, CHARLES. Richmond-hill.-Poems on Various Subjects, 3d
ed., 1810, pp. 1-29.

HURN, W. Heath-hill, 1777.-See Crit. Rev., xliii. 233; no extract.
JORDAN, JOHN. Welcombe hills, 1777. Not seen.

P., T. (THOMAS PYE?). Witenham-hill, 1777?-Gent. Mag., xlviii. 129.
MICKLE, W. J. Almada hill, an epistle from Lisbon, Oxford, 1781.

N., T. One tree hill [Greenwich].-Univ. Mag., lxxiv. 266-7. (Octo-
syllabics.)

HOBHOUSE, THOMAS. Kingsweston hill, 1785.

YEARSLEY, ANN. Clifton hill.-Poems, 1785, pp. 107-27.

COTTER, G. S. Prospects, a descriptive poem, 4 books. -In Poems, Cork, 1788. Not seen.

RUSHER, PHILIP. Crouch-hill, Banbury, 1789. Not seen.

1 Unless otherwise designated, the poems are in heroic couplets. "No extract" means that no part of the poem appears in the review cited. A few unimportant loco-descriptive poems that show the influence of Milton but are not mentioned in Chapter XII above are listed in Bibliography I, under the years 1765, 1767, 1785, 1828, 1828 w., 1832, 1846, and Bibliography II, 1750, 1760, 1802.

21777. Astle, Daniel. A prospect from Barrow-hill, in Staffordshire, Birmingham, 1777. — See Mo. Rev., lviii. 308-9. (Prose.)

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1732

1732-3

1733

1734 1739

1747

1748

1749

1749 W.

1750?

1753 1755

ANON. Verses occasioned by seeing the palace, park, etc., of Dalkeith,
Edin., 1732. Not seen.

ARAM, PETER. Studley-park.-Thomas Gent's History of Rippon, York,
1733, pp. 1-28.

DUICK, JOHN. Scarborough, 1733. Not seen; may be the poem in Gent.
Mag., iv. 155-6.

CHANDLER, MARY. A description of Bath, 7th ed., 1755.

BROWNE, MOSES. A view of Scarborough, in four epistles.-Poems, 1739,
pp. 205-26.

ANON. Shrewsbury quarry, in imitation of Pope's Windsor-forest, Salop,
1747. (Not the same as under 1770 below.)
ANON. Bath, 1748. Not seen.

ANON. Bristol Wells, a poem for the year 1749, by a gentleman at the
Wells, Bristol, 1749. Not seen.

JONES, HENRY. Rath-Farnham. - Poems, 1749, pp. 44-50.

BROWNE, MOSES. Percy-lodge, seat of the duke of Somerset, 1755.-See
Mo. Rev., xiv. 60-61. (Octosyllabics.)

ANON. A description of Bath, 1750(?). Not seen.

ANON. Killarney, by an officer in the army, Dublin, 1750(?). Not seen.
KIDDELL, HENRY. Tiverton, 1753.-See Mo. Rev., x. 78; no extract.
DALTON, JOHN. A descriptive poem (on the mines near Whitehaven], 1755.
MAXWELL, ARCHIBALD. Portsmouth, 2 books, 1755.-See Mo. Rev., xiii.
297; no extract.

c. 1755 W. LANGHORNE, JOHN. Studley park.-Chalmers's English Poets, 1810, xvi. 416-19.

1758

1760 1761

1763

1764

1765 1766

1767

1769

1770 1771

1772

1773

1773 W.

HUCKELL, JOHN. Avon, 3 parts, Birmingham, 1758.

POTTER, ROBERT. Holkham, 1758.

MADDEN, W. B. Belle Isle, 1760.-See Crit. Rev., xi. 416; no extract.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM. An essay on Halifax, a poem in blank verse, Halifax,
1761. Not seen.

NICHOLS, JOHN. Islington, 1763.-See
RITSO, GEORGE. Kew gardens, 1763.

Crit. Rev., xvi. 316.

See ib. 394-5.

WILSON, JOHN. The Clyde, 1764.-See John Veitch's Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry, 1887, ii. 179-82.

WOODHOUSE, JAMES. The Lessowes. - Poems on Sundry Occasions, 1764, pp. 38-109.

ANON. Kimbolton-park, 1765.-See Mo. Rev., xxxiii. 240.

JONES, HENRY. Vectis, the isle of Wight, 3 cantos, 1766.-See ib. xxxiv.
349-51.

MICHELL, RICHARD. Hackwood-park, 1766.-See Crit. Rev., xxi. 318.
ANON. The rise and progress of the present taste in planting parks, pleasure-
grounds, etc., 1767 [treats of Kew, Kensington, and Stowe]. -See Mo.
Rev., xxxvii. 139–44.

JONES, HENRY. Clifton, 2 cantos, Bristol, 1767. Not seen.

ANON. The prospect, a lyric essay, by Martin Scriblerus, jun., 1769.- See Crit. Rev., xxvii. 397. (Lines of eight and nine syllables, with alternate rime.)

OGILVIE, JOHN. Paradise, 1769.

JONES, HENRY. Shrewsbury quarry, etc., Shrewsbury, 1770.
MAUDE, THOMAS. Wensleydale, or rural contemplations, 1771.
SHERIDAN, R. B. The Bath picture, a ballad, 1771. Not seen.

LESLIE, JOHN. Killarney (Dublin, 1772); Phoenix park (1772, see Crit.
Rev., xxxv. 158, no extract).

ANON. A description of Tunbridge.—Univ. Mag., lii. 266–7.

HILL, ROBERT. Greenwich-park.-Poems on Several Occasions, 1775, pp. 161-88.

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1728

1729

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Trows. Arx. Shetland-Probably in Poems, rie see With's Wes-
Country Poets. 1896. p. 437-

Howes, W. Rosiand-Uzir. Mag, Invā 152-3

Axox, Matic, a farewell descriptive poem, 1786.-See Mo. Rev., harv. 313; no extract

COWLEY, HANNAH. The Scottish village, 1736. Alternate rime.

Razza, T. Dunstan park, or an evening walk, 1786.-See Crit. Rev.. hi.

234: no extract

MAVOR, WILLIAM Blenheim (1787; A new description of Blenheim (1780,

not seen,.

Awow. Chatsworth, 1788.-See Crit. Rev., lvi. 488–9.

WHALLEY, T. S. Mont Blanc, an irregular lyric poem, 1788.-See Gent.
Mag, viii. 145-7, 329-30. (Pindarics)

FERNYHOUGH, WILLIAM. Trentham park, 1789.-See Mo. Rev., enl., i
336; no extract.

WALKER, JOHN. A descriptive poem of the town and trade of Liverpool,
Liverpool, 1789. Not seen.

1739 w. 1803 p. WOODHOUSE, JAMES. Norbury park.-Life and Works, 1896, ii. 163–

1792

1792 W.

1793

1794

1796

1797

77.

ANON. Stonehenge, 1792. Not seen.

SOTHEBY, WILLIAM. Llangollen-Tour through Parts of Wales, 1794, pp. 103-120.

ANON. Devon water. -The Bee, xv. 249 (June 19, 1793).

ANON. The south downs, 1793.-See Mo. Rev., enl., xii. 166–9.

CUMBERLAND, GEORGE. A poem on the landscapes of Great Britain, 1793.
-See ib. 221-2.

HAMPSON, WILLIAM. Duckinfield lodge, 2 cantos, 1793.-See Crit. Rev.,
new arr., xi. 347.

LACY, WILLOUGHBY. The garden of Isleworth, 1794.-See ib. xiii. 354; no extract.

DOIG, DAVID. Extracts from a poem on the prospect from Stirling castle, 1796.-See ib. xviii. 461-2.

SEWARD, ANNA. Llangollen vale (Llangollen Vale, with other Poems, 1796, pp. 1-11, stanzas); Verses on Wrexham (ib. 12-14); Hoyle lake (ib. 15-21, elegiac stanzas).

GISBORNE, JOHN. The vales of Wever, a loco-descriptive poem, 1797. —
See Mo. Rev., enl., xxiv. 430–35. (Octosyllabics.)

1798

1800

1801

1803

1806

1808

1810

1811

1812

1814

1817

1818

ATKINSON, JOSEPH. Killarney, 1798.-See ib. xxv. 472; no extract. HOLFORD, MARGARET. Gresford vale, 1798.-See ib. 476. (Alternate rime.)

BISSET, JAMES. A poetic survey round Birmingham, 1800.-See ib. xxxiii.

319-20.

ANON. The vale of Trent, 1801.-See ib. XXXV. 110-111; no extract.
WHITE, HENRY KIRKE. Clifton grove. - Remains, 5th ed., 1811, ii. 11-28.
MUNNINGS, J. S. Cromer, a descriptive poem in blank verse, part i, 1806.
Not seen.

TAPRELL, RICHARD. Barnstaple, 1806.-See Wright's West-Country Poets,
1896, pp. 434-5. (Blank verse.)

SANSOM, JAMES. Greenwich, a poem descriptive and historical, 1808. Not

seen.

FREEMAN, ROWLAND. Regulbium, a poem, with an historical and descrip-
tive account of the Roman station at Reculver, Canterbury, 1810.
Not seen.

KENNEDY, JAMES. Glenochel, a descriptive poem, Glasgow, 1810. Not seen.
SMEDLEY, EDWARD. Erin, a geographical and descriptive poem, 1810. Not

seen.

DRUMMOND, W. H. The giants' causeway, 3 books, Belfast, 1811.

IRELAND, W. H. C. A poetic epistolary description of the city of York,
York, 1811. Not seen.

BRYSON, W. A. Sun-rise at Lough Erne (Poems, Dublin, 1812, pp. 90-1);
Moon-light scene at Killarney (ib. 92–4). Hendecasyllabics, with al-
ternate rime.

MORGAN, WILLIAM. Long Ashton, a poem, in two parts, descriptive of the scenery of that village, etc., Bristol, 1814. Not seen.

ANON. Tunbridge Wells, a descriptive poem, 1817. Not seen.

1817-21 CROLY, GEORGE. Paris in 1815, 2 parts, 1817–21. (Spenserian stanzas.) SHOEL, THOMAS. Glastonbury Tor, Sherborne, 1818. Not seen. WOODLEY, GEORGE. Cornubia [Cornwall], 5 cantos, 1819; Devonia [Devon], 5 cantos, 1820. Not seen.

1819-20

1820 W.

1821

1823

1828

1826-36 p. POLWHELE, RICHARD. Dartmoor.-Reminiscences, 1836, iii. 63-84. HEMANS, FELICIA D. Dartmoor, 1821.

COTTLE, JOSEPH. Dartmoor, etc., 1823. Not seen.

HOYLE, CHARLES. Killarney. In his Three Days at Killarney, etc., 1828. Not seen.

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