ADVERTISEMENT. I cannot too often and too earnestly repeat, (as, even among sensible men, there is still so much misunderstanding on the subject,) that there is not, nor ever has been, a QUESTION about the old story of “ART and "NATURE," with reference to the poetry of Pope. The subject of" Art and Nature" was originally a mere incidental half-sentence, leading to the main proposition, respecting Pope, that "Satires and Moral Essays, however "perfectly executed, could not entitle the writer to the FIRST "and highest rank in poetry, the eternal basis of which "is founded on the unchangeable PASSIONS of the HUMAN 66 HEART, not on varying manners and modes of ARTI66 FICIAL LIFE." It was Lord BYRON who rang the peal on NATURE and ART! As Lord BYRON, in his unsubstantiated but shewy rhetoric, brought various instances to prove, that in every instance enumerated, from the ship on the sea to the fallen temples of Athens, poetry derived her most interesting materials from works of art; it was necessary to prove that all his instances, so far from establishing his position, established the contrary: for instance, that a sailing ship became chiefly a beautiful poetical object from its association |