Serving To Illustrate Some

PASSAGES IN THE THIRD DIALOGUE.

Guarda, che mal fato O giovenil vaghezza non ti meni Al magazino de le ciancie, ab fuggi, Fuggi quell incantato alloggiamento. Quivi habitan le maghe, che incantande Fan traveder, e traudir ciascuno. TASSO.

CONTENTS OF THE LETTERS.

Letter I. The Subject proposed.

II. Origin of Chivalry.

III. Characteristics of, accounted for.

IV. Heroic and Gothic manners, compared.

V. Their differences, noted.

VI. Gothic manners more poetical, than the Heroic.

VII. Their effect on SPENSER, MILTON, SHAKESPEAR.

VIII. Fairy Queen criticized—the method of that poem explained and justified.

IX. TASSO’S Gier. Lib. considered—history of the Italian poetry.

X. Fairy way of writing—vindicated.

XI. Gothic poetry, whence fallen into disrepute.

XII. Steps of its decline, traced.