ton, Dryden, Fletcher, Ford, Gay,
Goldsmith, Gray, Mrs. Hemans, Herbert, Herrick, Hood, Ben Jonson, Keats,
Keble, Landor, Marlowe, Marvel, Massinger, Milton, Moore, Otway, Pope,
Prior, Rogers, Rowe, Scott, Shakespeare, Shelley, Shenstone, Southey,
Spenser, Thomson, Waller, Wordsworth, Young. With many others of less
celebrity.

=Poets' Corner=, in the south transept of Westminster Abbey. No one knows
who christened the corner thus. With poets are divines, philosophers,
actors, novelists, architects and critics.

The "corner" contains a bust, statue, tablet, or monument, to five of
our first-rate poets: viz., Chaucer (1400), Dryden (1700), Milton
(1674), Shakespeare (1616), and Spenser (1598); and some seventeen of
second or third class merit, as Addison, Beaumont (none to Fletcher), S.
Butler, Campbell, Cowley, Cumberland, Drayton, Gay, Gray, Goldsmith,
Ben Jonson, Macaulay, Prior, Rowe, Sheridan, Thomson and Wordsworth.

[Asterism] Dryden's monument was erected by Sheffield, duke of
Buckingham. Wordsworth's statue was erected by a public subscription.

=Poetry= (_The Father of_), Orpheus (2 _syl._) of Thrace.

_Father of Dutch Poetry_, Jakob Maerlant; also called "The Father of
Flemish Poetry" (1235-1300).

_Father of English Poetry_, Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400).

_Father of Epic Poetry_, Homer.

He compares Richardson to Homer, and predicts for his memory the
same honors which are rendered to the Father of Epic Poetry.--Sir
W. Scott.

=Poetry--Prose.= Pope advised Wycherly "to convert his poetry into prose."

=Poganuc=, small Puritan town in New England as it was 100 years
ago.--Harriet Beecher Stowe, _Poganuc People_ (1876).

=Po'gram= (_Elijah_), one of the "master minds" of America, and a member
of Congress. He was possessed with the idea that there was a settled
opposition in the British mind against the institutions of his "free and
enlightened country."--C. Dickens, _Martin Chuzzlewit_ (1844).

=Poinder= (_George_), a city officer.--Sir W. Scott, _Heart of Midlothian_
(time, George II.).

=Poins=, a companion of Sir John Falstaff.--Shakespeare, 1 and 2 _Henry
IV._ (1597, 1598).

The chronicles of that day contain accounts of many a mad prank
which [_Lord Warwick, Addison's step-son_] played ... [_like_] the
lawless freaks of the madcap prince and Poins.--Thackeray.

=Poison.= It is said that Mithrid[=a]t[^e]s VI., surnamed "the Great,"
had so forti