EPIC AND DRAMATIC POEM 9 AS IT EXISTS IN THE ILIAD, ÆNEID AND PARADISE LOST. BY ANSELM BAYLY, LL.D. Stothard del LONDON Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1789. OF the following fheets it need only be faid by way of Preface, that whether eftimable or not, they have one property, that of originality. They are indebted very little to the ancients, fuch as Ariftoxenus on Mufick, Ariftotle and Horace on Poetry, and Cicero on Orátory, or to the moderns, Boffu, Dryden, Pope, Addison, or any other writer whatever, on thofe fubjects. The obfervations on Mufick and Oratory are the refult of many years experience, and on Poetry, of ftudying the originals themfelves, Homer, the father and preceptor of musick, poetry and oratory, and Virgil and Milton, his fons and pupils. * See the Vignette in the Frontispiece, where Homer, under this character and idea, is crowned by one of the Graces. |