...occur in what Samuel Johnson later denominated " local poetry, of which the fundamental subject ig some particular landscape to be poetically described, with...historical retrospection or incidental meditation." e Johnson's definition puts the emphasis where it belonged in his own time, on the element of description,...

...Denham's Cooper's Hill, had called " local poetry." " The fundamental subject," said the Doctor, " is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation." Thus in both Crowe and Gary we have the description of the scene from a particular hill,2 the note...

...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection, or incidental meditation'-.' This is best seen by summarizing the poem. After an invocation to Cooper's Hill, the poet looks from...

...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retroignorant of Denham's work until he had completed three acts of his own play, which was modeled...

...Johnson called the species founded by Denham "local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection, or incidental meditation." Both Dryden and Johnson agreed in singling out for praise in "Cooper's Hill" the following four lines:...

...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection, or incidental meditation' (cited in Kenner, 1964, p. 398). Denham 's poem was quite unlike Ben Jonson's account of Penshurst...

...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape to be poetically described, with...supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.7 The possibility of dullness or banality inherent in this generic project is only the complement...

...Johnson's famous definition of "local poetry") "the fundamental subject is some particular landscape ... poetically described, with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection and incidental meditation" ("Denham" 77). In addition to the three elements mentioned by Johnson -...

...species of composition that may be denominated local portry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape to be poetically described, with...historical retrospection or incidental meditation. The typical thematic variety and loose structure of poems such as "Cooper's Hill" have tended to bring...

...accordance with Johnson's description of the form Denham had pioneered as one in which a landscape is "poetically described, with the addition of such embellishments...historical retrospection or incidental meditation" 25 —Dyer includes a number of moral reflections suggested by the landscape, explaining the ground...