Still more have "The Seasons" and "The Castle of Indolence" of James Thomson retained, and are likely to retain, the public favour. "The Seasons" is a treasury of the life and imagery of the country, animated by a true love of Nature and of God, and abounding in passages of fire, healthy feeling, and strong sense, often of sublime conceptions, in a somewhat stiff and vicious style. "The Castle of Indolence" is a model of metrical harmony and luxurious fancy, in the Spenserian stanza. Another poet of the same time and country--Scotland--is Allan Ramsay, who, in his native dialect, has painted the manners and sung the rural loves of Scotland in his "Gentle Shepherd" and his rustic lyrics. Till Burns, no Scottish poet so completely embodied the spirit, feelings, and popular life of his country. Amongst a host of verse-makers, then deemed poets, but who were merely imitators of imitators, we must except Gray, with his nervous lyrics, and, above all, his ever-popular "Elegy in a Country Churchyard." Gray also has a genuine vein of wit and merriment in his verse. Collins was a poet who under happier conditions might have done the greatest things. Parnell's "Hermit," Blair's "Grave," Shenstone's "School Mistress," Akenside's "Imagination," can yet charm some readers, and there are others in great numbers whose works yet figure in collections of the poets, or whose individual poems are selected in anthologies, as Smith, King, Sprat Bishop of Rochester, Duke, Montague Earl of Halifax, Nicholas Rowe, Dyer--author of the "Fleece," "Grongar Hill," and "Ruins of Rome,"--Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire, Fenton, Somerville--author of "The Chase," "Field Sports," etc.,--Hammond--author of "Love Elegies,"--Lord Lyttelton, Mallet, Mickle--author of the ballads of "Cumnor Hall," "There's Nae Luck about the House," and translator of the "Lusiad" of Camoens,--Shaw, Harte, West, Cawthorne, Lloyd, Gilbert Cooper, Grainger--author of "The Sugar Cane," and the once popular ballad of "Bryan and Pereene,"--Dodsley, poet and bookseller, Boyse--author of "The Deity," a poem, etc.,--Smollett--more remarkable as a novelist and historian,--Michael Bruce, Walsh, Falconer--author of "The Shipwreck,"--Yalden, Pattison, Aaron Hill, Broome, Pitt--the translator of Virgil,--John Philips--author of "Cider," a poem, "The Splendid Shilling," etc.,--West, and others. In fact, this age produced poets enough to have constituted the rhythmical literature of a nation, had they had as much genius as they had learning.