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Updated: May 13, 2025
Friend, and the elegant Dr. Mead. Among the poets of this era, we number John Philips, author of a didactic poem, called Cyder, a performance of real merit; he lived and died in obscurity William Congreve, celebrated for his comedies, which are not so famous for strength of character and power of humour, as for wit, elegance, and regularity Vanburgh, who wrote with more nature and fire, though with less art and precision Steele, who in his comedies successfully engrafted modern characters on the ancient drama Farquhar, who drew his pictures from fancy rather than from nature, and whose chief merit consists in the agreeable pertness and vivacity of his dialogue Addison, whose fame as a poet greatly exceeded his genius, which was cold and enervate; though he yielded to none in the character of an essayist, either for style or matter Swift, whose muse seems to have been mere misanthropy; he was a cynic rather than a poet, and his natural dryness and sarcastic severity would have been unpleasing, had not he qualified them, by adopting the extravagant humour of Lueian and Rabelais Prior, lively, familiar, and amusing Rowe, solemn, florid, and declamatory Pope, the prince of lyric poetry; unrivalled in satire, ethics, and polished versification the agreeable Parnel the wild, the witty, and the whimsical Garth Gay, whose fables may vie with those of La Fontaine, in native humour, ease, and simplicity, and whose genius for pastoral was truly original.
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