. Poetical works of James Montgomery . ixion. Imitated from the Italian of Crescimbeni . 368To a Bride. Imitated from the Italian of P. Salandri . . 369 CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PageOn the Siege of Genoa by the French Army in IG**. Imitated from the Italian of Gaetana Passerini 369 Imitated from the Italian of Petrarch 370 On the Siege of Famagusta, in the Island of Cyprus, by the Turks, in 1571. Imitated from the Italian of Benedetto Dalluva 370 On the Sepulture of Christ. Imitated from the Iliulian of Gabriello Fiamma 371 On Judith Returning to Bethulia with the head of Holofornes in her hand.
. Poetical works of James Montgomery . ixion. Imitated from the Italian of Crescimbeni . 368To a Bride. Imitated from the Italian of P. Salandri . . 369 CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PageOn the Siege of Genoa by the French Army in IG**. Imitated from the Italian of Gaetana Passerini 369 Imitated from the Italian of Petrarch 370 On the Siege of Famagusta, in the Island of Cyprus, by the Turks, in 1571. Imitated from the Italian of Benedetto Dalluva 370 On the Sepulture of Christ. Imitated from the Iliulian of Gabriello Fiamma 371 On Judith Returning to Bethulia with the head of Holofornes in her hand. From the Italian of Giovambatista Zappi . 371For a Nun, on taking the Veil. From the Italian of Eustachio Manfredi 372 From Petrarch 372 The Swiss Cowherds Song, in a Foreign Land. Imitated from the French 373 Meet again 373 Via Crucis, Via Lucis 374 German War Song 375 FROM DANTE. Ugolino and Ruggieri 376 Maestro Adamo 379 Dante and Beatrice 382 The River of Life 383 The Portal of Hell 386 Anleus 387 Cain 388 Farinata 389 Notes 393. MEMOIE. OF THE AUTHOR. James Montgomery is admitted by all the critics tobe at the head of the rehgious poets of the present the bard of Olney, no one has surpassed him inpurity of sentiment or fervour of devotion. For halfa century he has been slowly and constantly increasingin the popular favour, and his reputation has now acompass and a solidity w^hich forbid all thought of itsdecay. Of the throng of competitors among whom he haswon his laurels, Crabbe, Byron, Southey, Coleridgeand Campbell have gone before him into the regionof the Unknown; and Rogers and Wordsworth, hisvenerable brothers, are permitted with him to linger atthe gates of the Future and listen to the applauses ofposterity. They are the noblest impersonations ofPiety, Philosophy, and Taste, and they are all im-mortal. In the last and completest edition of his works, pub-lished recently in London, Mr. Montgomery hasgiven in various prefaces and notes an account of his 7 M
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