Use made of books of travel and exploration by English poets, 1729-1790
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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
James Thomson and the travel writers - his imitators in poems about the best
Indies - motives for travel during the eighteenth century - the manifold
relations between poets and travel- writers - the theory of travel in prose
and verse.
CHAPTER TWO.
TRAVELLING IN EUROPE.
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of
an inferiority, from his not having seen it is expected
a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to
see the shores of the Mediterranean.
CHAPTER THREE.
GREAT BRITAIN.
CHAPTER FOUR.
PRIMITIVE POETRY AND THE TRAVEL BOOKS.
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