[Footnote 5: John Crowe Ransom, _The New Criticism_ (New York, 1941), p. 15.] [Footnote 6: _An Inquiry into the Fine Arts_ (London, 1784), p. 6.] BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE This facsimile of _An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients_ (1762) is reproduced from a copy in the Duke University Library. POEMS on SEVERAL SUBJECTS. To Which Is Prefix’d, AN ESSAY on the LYRIC POETRY of the ANCIENTS; In TWO LETTERS inscribed to The Right Honourable JAMES Lord DESKFOORD. By _JOHN OGILVIE_, A.M. [Illustration] _LONDON:_ Printed for G. KEITH, at the _Bible-and-Crown_ in _Gracechurch-Street_. M. DCC. LXII. CONTENTS. [Transcriber’s Note: Although the facsimile includes this full Table of Contents, only the introductory section-- the Essay on Lyric Poetry-- was reprinted.] An ESSAY on the LYRIC POETRY of the ANCIENTS. LETTER I. Page iii LETTER II. xxxix ODES, &c. _To MELANCHOLY_ 1 _To the GENIUS OF SHAKESPEAR_ 8 _To TIME_ 16 _To SLEEP_ 23 _To EVENING_ 29 _To INNOCENCE_ 36 _The DAY OF JUDGMENT. A Poem._ BOOK I. 49 BOOK II. 79 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. The 148th PSALM paraphrased 107 VERSES to a Lady, with VOLTAIRE’S _Temple of Taste_ 112 A TOWN ECLOGUE 116 JUPITER and the CLOWN. A Fable 120 An Elegy on the DEATH of a LINNET 128 An EVENING PIECE 131 To Miss ---- with a Flower 134 SAPPHO’s Ode to VENUS translated 136 To the Memory of Mrs. ---- 138 To the Memory of Mr. H*** M***. An Elegy 143 To the Memory of the late pious, and ingenious Mr. HERVEY 147 The Third Chapter of HABAKKUK paraphrased 152 An ESSAY on the LYRIC POETRY of the ANCIENTS. Humbly Inscribed to the RIGHT HONOURABLE JAMES Lord DESKFOORD. An E S S A Y on the LYRIC POETRY of the ANCIENTS. LETTER I. MY LORD,