The Minstrel: or The Progress of Genius, and Other Poems

Excerpt from The Minstrel: or the Progress of Genius, and Other Poems:

The Minstrel is certainly one of the most delightful productions that have ever been elaborated by the cautious hand of taste. It exhibits scarcely any powers of invention; it can make no pretensions to originality of structure or design; although it bears the indubitable marks of poetic genius, that genius is not of the highest order. Still, so beautiful are the sentiments, so perfectly elegant is the execution, and so interesting the subject as a sketch of intellectual biography, that few poems in the language are more adapted to please, and by pleasing to exert over the mind of the reader a beneficial influence. In fact, it does honour to Dr. Beattie equally as a poet and a philosopher.

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