Amos Jones Cook, The Student's Companion: Containing a Variety of Poetry and Prose, selected from the most celebrated authors. To which are added Miscellaneous Matters, particularly designed to improve youth in reading and parsing the English Language. 2nd Edition (Concord: Isaac Hall, 1825)

Information about the collection: The author's name is not listed in the TOC, but it is listed after the poem in the volume itself. The preface is divided into two section: "on poetry" and "on the study of poetry in general." The titles that read like titles of criticism (e.g. On the style of...) quite often are, with Dr. Johnson and Dr. Aikin cited more than the others.

From the Prefatory notes: If indeed, pleasure were the ultimate object of Poetry, there are some, who, in the rigor of austere wisdom, would maintain, that the precious days of youth might be more advantageously employed, than in cultivating a taste for it. To obviate their objections, it is necessary to remind them, that Poetry has ever claimed the power of conveying instruction, in the most effectual manner, by the vehicle of pleasure.

Table of Contents: 

On Poetry
On the study of Poetry in general
A Hymn
Hymn on Providence
On the style of Addison as a writer
Pythagoras and the Countryman
Hymn, from Psalm 148
Friendship
Ode on the death of Thomson
The Pleasures of Heaven
Prayer
The House of Industry
Faded Hours
Music of Light
Summer
On the style of Thomson
The Pleasures of Memory
Remarks on the Pleasures of Memory and the Author
Night Thoughts
On the style of Young
The Minstrel
On the style of Dr. Beattie
Man
Pope and Dryden compared
Daphne--a Pastoral
On Pastoral Poetry
Extract from Milton's Paradise Lost
On the style of Milton
Rural Sounds, as well as Rural Sights, delightful
The Rose
On the style of Cowper
Pleasures of Imagination
Remarks on Pleasures of Imagination
Alexander's Feast
Remarks on Alexander's Feast
The Deserted Village
The character of Goldsmith and his writings
The Art of Poetry
A Summer evening's Meditation
Cheerfulness
Epitaph
Jupiter to the inferior Deities, &c.
The Passions -- An Ode
Remarks on the Passions
A Hymn to the Deity on the seasons of the Year
Lessons of Wisdom
Remarks on Dr. Armstrong
A Monody on the death of Lady Lyttleton
Character of Lord Lyttleton and his writings
The Rake and the Hermit
Character of William Wilkie and his writings
An Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard
The Epitaph
Character of Gray and his writings
On the Seven Sciences. -- Grammar, Rhetoric
Logic -- Arithmetic -- Geometry
Music -- Astronomy
On the Five Senses. -- Hearing
Seeing -- Feeling
Smelling -- Tasting
The Ten Commandments
Rules and Observations
Questions on Grammar
Select copies for small hand
Words selected from the foregoing work
Words, two or more of which are of the same sound