His _Cooper's Hill_ (in 1642) was the first example of what Johnson calls local poetry--poetry, that is, devoted to the celebration of a particular place; and, moreover, it was one of the early models of the rhythm which became triumphant in the hands of Dryden.

One couplet is still familiar:-- Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.
The poem has some vigorous descriptive touches, but is in the main a forcible expression of the moral and political reflections which would be approved by the admirers of good sense in poetry.
Pope's _Windsor Forest_, which appeared in the beginning of 1713, is closely and avowedly modelled upon this original.

There is still a considerable infusion of the puerile classicism of the Pastorals, which contrasts awkwardly with Denham's strength, and a silly episode about the nymph Lodona changed into the river Loddon by Diana, to save her from the pursuit of Pan.

But the style is animated, and the descriptions, though seldom original, show Pope's frequent felicity of language.

Wordsworth, indeed, was pleased to say that Pope had here introduced almost the only "new images of internal nature" to be found between Milton and Thomson.