12 Poetry.' [Chap. XX. 



that country. This work, with several essential 

 faults, combines beauties and excellences which 

 render it worthy of attention. The otlier work 

 which comes under the same denomination is 

 The Passage of the Belt, by count de Gyllenborg, 

 from which the author has derived considerable 

 reputation among his countrymen. The Rossiada 

 of Kheraskof, a Russian nobleman, was before 

 mentioned as entitled to respectful notice, not 

 only because it possesses considerable merit as a 

 poem, but because it was the first successful atr 

 tempt to inlist the Russian language in the ser- 

 vice of the epic muse, and because its appearance 

 may be considered as forming an important epoch 

 in the history of Russian poetry. 



The translations of different epic poems, in the 

 course of this century, were so numerous, that to 

 give a list and character of them all would lead us 

 into a field far too extensive. But it would be 

 impardonable, even in this short sketch, to omit 

 taking notice of a few beside those which have 

 been already mentioned. The celebrated Italian 

 epic poem Giemisalemme Liberata^ by Tasso, has 

 also been elegantly translated into English, during 

 this period, by Mr. Hoole. The first three books 

 had been previously presented in an English dress 

 by Mr. Brooke ; on whose work Mr. Hoole passes 

 the most Ii];)eral encomiums. To give a version 

 of the whole was reserved for the latter gentle- 

 man, who executed the task with very honoura- 

 ble success. Shortly afterwards, the Lusiad of 

 Camoens, on which the Portuguese rest their claim 

 to epic honours, was translated into English by 

 Mr. Micklc, which, in spirit and elegance, is cou? 



