The most celebrated of these poems, but far from the best, is "The Spleen." "The Petition for an absolute Retreat," and the "Nocturnal Reverie," are of much superior merit.

See also for favourable specimens, p.

156; "On the Death of Mr.Thynne," p.

263; and p.

280, "Fragment." The Fable of "Love, Death, and Reputation," p.