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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.

1774

17772

1781

1784

1785

1788

1789

I-17.

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. — Mo. Rev., lviii. 308-9. (Prose.)

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17941

1794?

1796

1797

1798 1799 1800

1803

1804

1807 1808

1811

1812

1817 1821

ANON. Llangunnor hill, a loco-descriptive poem, 1794.-See Mo. Rev., enl., xvi. 460-62. (Octosyllabics.)

BIDLAKE, JOHN. Written at Mount Edgcumbe.-In Poems, 1794?; re-
printed in W. H. K. Wright's West-Country Poets, 1896, pp. 38-40.
(Octosyllabics.)

DAVIS, T. Eastham hill, a loco-descriptive poem, Monmouth, 1796.
Not seen.

MACKAY, J. Quebec hill, or Canadian scenery, 2 parts, 1797.-See Mo.
Rev., enl., xxiv. 210-12.

BOWLES, W. L. St. Michael's mount, Salisbury, 1798.

MAURICE, THOMAS. Grove-hill, 1799.

CUNNINGHAM, PETER. St. Anne's hill, 3d ed., Chertsey, 1833. (Elegiac
stanzas.)

SHOEL, THOMAS. Mileshill [St. Michael's mount], 1803. Not seen.
WOODLEY, GEORGE. Mount-Edgcumbe, Devonport, 1804. Not seen.
MAURICE, THOMAS. Richmond hill, 1807.-See Mo. Rev., enl., lv. 132–8.
SKURRAY, FRANCIS. Bidcombe hill, 1808. Not seen.

HOGG, THOMAS. St. Michael's mount, 4 cantos, 1811.

REDDING, CYRUS. Mount Edgcumbe, 1811.-See Wright's West-Country
Poets, 1896, p. 397.

TUCKER, W. J. Honiton-hill, Bath, 1811.-See ib. 457-8.

PENTICROSS, WILLIAM. Witenham-hill, 1812. Not seen; may be the one noted under 1777 above.

YEATMAN, H. F. Brent knoll, Sherborne, 1817. Not seen.

THELWALL, JOHN. Shooter's hill.-Poetical Recreations, 1822, pp. 232–4. (Elegiac stanzas.)

B. OTHER POEMS

1679 w. 1745 p. ANON. Belvoir: a Pindaric ode upon Belvoir castle.-J. Nichols's History of Leicestershire, 1795, vol, ii, pt. i, app., 50-61. (Pindarics.) LEWIS, Relation of a journey to Tunbridge Wells, with a description of the wells, 1693. Not seen.

HARRISON, WILLIAM. Woodstock park.-Dodsley's Miscellany, 1758, v. 188-201.

ANON. Windsor-castle, 1708.

1693

1706

1708

1712

1713

1715

ANON. The country seat, a description of Langdon, near Plymouth, 1715.
Not seen.

1718

GOLDWIN, WILLIAM. A poetical description of Bristol, 1712. Not seen.
POPE, ALEXANDER. Windsor forest, 1713.

ANON. Greenwich park, etc., inscribed to the duke of Montagu, 1718.
Not seen.

JONES, SAMUEL. Whitby, 1718. Not seen.

bef.1723 p. WARD, JAMES. Phoenix park.-Miscellaneous Poems, published by Mr.

1724

1726

1727

1727 W.

1731-8

Concanen, 1724, pp. 379-91.

AMORY, THOMAS. A poem in the praises of Taunton, 1724. Not seen.
HOWARD, LEONARD. Greenwich park.-Poetical Works, n. d., pp. 28–60.
ANON. Description of Tunbridge, 1727. Not seen.

PECK, FRANCIS. Belvoir castle.-J. Nichols's History of Leicestershire,
1795, vol. ii, pt. i, app., 61-6.

BOYSE, SAMUEL. Loch Rian (Chalmers's English Poets, 1810, xiv. 533-4); The triumphs of nature (ib. 534-8); Nature (ib. 567-8); Retirement (ib. 576-9). The last three poems describe the parks at Stowe, Dalkeith, and Yester.

1 The American poems, Greenfield Hill by Timothy Dwight (N. Y., 1794), Beacon Hill by S. W. Morton (Boston, 1797), and Milton Hill by H. M. Lisle (Boston, 1803), may also be noticed.

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 Crit. Rev., xvi. 316.

RITSO, GEORGE. Kew gardens, 1763. See ib. 394-5.

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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.

1774

1775 1776

1777

1778

1779 W.

1782

1783

1784?

ELLIS, GEORGE. Bath, its beauties and amusements, Bath, 1774. Not seen.
ANON. Bath and it's environs, 3 cantos, Bath, 1775.

MAURICE, THOMAS. Netherby (Oxford, 1776); Hagley (Oxford, 1776).
MUNDY, F. N. C. Needwood forest, Lichfield, 1776.-See Stebbing Shaw's
History of Staffordshire, 1798, i. 68-70, second pagination. (Octosyl-
labics.)

REEVE, JOSEPH. Ugbrooke park, 1776.-See Wright's West-Country
Poets, 1896, p. 398.

HUNTINGFORD, THOMAS. Nun's path [near Warminster], a descriptive
poem, pt. 1, Salisbury, 1777. Not seen.

HEARD, WILLIAM. A sentimental journey to Bath, Bristol, and their en-
virons, a descriptive poem, 1778. Not seen.

WALTERS, DANIEL. Landough, a loco-descriptive poem.-John Walters's
Poems, Oxford, 1780, pp. 135-42.

MAUDE, THOMAS. Verbeia, or Wharfdale, York, 1782.-See Crit. Rev.,
lv. 257-60.

DAVIES, EDWARD. Blaise castle, a prospective poem, Bristol, 1783. Not

seen.

THOMAS, ANN. Shetland.-Probably in Poems, 1784: see Wright's West-
Country Poets, 1896, p. 437.

HADWEN, W. Rusland.-Univ. Mag., lxxvii. 152-3.

1785

1786

ANON. Matlock, a farewell descriptive poem, 1786.-See Mo. Rev.,
313; no extract.

lxxv.

1787-9

1788

1789

COWLEY, HANNAH. The Scottish village, 1786. (Alternate rime.)

RHODES, T. Dunstan park, or an evening walk, 1786.-See Crit. Rev., lxi. 234; no extract.

MAVOR, WILLIAM. Blenheim (1787); A new description of Blenheim (1789, not seen).

ANON. Chatsworth, 1788.-See Crit. Rev., lxvi. 488–9.

WHALLEY, T. S. Mont Blanc, an irregular lyric poem, 1788.-See Gent.
Mag., lviii. 146-7, 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.

1789 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

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.) 1818 SHOEL, THOMAS. Glastonbury Tor, Sherborne, 1818. Not seen. 1819-20 WOODLEY, GEORGE. Cornubia [Cornwall], 5 cantos, 1819; Devonia [Devon], 5 cantos, 1820. Not seen.

1820 w. 1826-36 p. POLWHELE, RICHARD. Dartmoor.-Reminiscences, 1836, iii. 63-84. 1821 HEMANS, FELICIA D. Dartmoor, 1821.

1823

1828

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

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

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