INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
James Thomson and the travel writers - his imitators in poems about the best
Indies - motives for travel during the eighteenth century - the manifold
relations between poets and travel- writers - the theory of travel in prose
and verse. • •
CHAPTER TWO.
TRAVELLING IN EUROPE.
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of
an inferiority, from his not having seen it is expected
a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to
see the shores of the Mediterranean. • •
CHAPTER THREE.
GREAT BRITAIN. • •
CHAPTER FOUR.
PRIMITIVE POETRY AND THE TRAVEL BOOKS
