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mere presentment of the situation. Inexperienced critics have often named this, which may be called the Homeric manner, superficial, from its apparent simple facility: but first rate excellence in it (as shown here, in CXCVI, CLVI, and CXXIX) is in truth one of the least common triumphs of Poetry.-This style should be compared with what is not less perfect in its way, the searching out of inner feeling, the expression of hidden meanings, the revelation of the heart of Nature and of the Soul within the Soul,-the Analytical method, in short,-most completely represented by Wordsworth and by Shelley. Cumber: trouble. CCXXXV Two intermediate stanzas have been here omitted. They are very ingenious, but, of all poetical qualities, ingenuity is least in accordance with pathos. 243 CCXLIII This poem has an exaltation and a glory, joined with an exquisiteness of expression, which place it in the highest rank amongst the many masterpieces of its illustrious Author.

231 CCXXXIV correi: covert on a hillside.

252 CCLII interlunar swoon: interval of the Moon's invisibility. 257 CCLVI Calpe: Gibraltar. Lofoden: the Maelstrom whirlpool off the N.W. coast of Norway.

259 CCLVII This lovely poem refers here and there to a ballad by Hamilton on the subject better treated in CXXVII and CXXVIII.

271 CCLXVIII Arcturi: seemingly used for northern stars.-And wild roses &c. Our language has no line modulated with more subtle sweetness. A good poet might have written And roses wild-yet this slight change would disenchant the verse of its peculiar beauty. 275 CCLXX Ceres' daughter: Proserpine. God of Torment: Pluto. CCLXXI This impassioned address expresses Shelley's most rapt imaginations, and is the direct modern representative of the feeling which led the Greeks to the worship of Nature.

284 CCLXXIV The leading idea of this beautiful description of a day's landscape in Italy is expressed with an obscurity not unfrequent with its author. It appears to be,-On the voyage of life are many moments of pleasure, given by the sight of Nature, who has power to heal even the worldliness and the uncharity of man.

285 286

1. 24 Amphitrite was daughter to Ocean.

1. 1 Sungirt City: It is difficult not to believe that
the correct reading is Seagirt. Many of Shelley's
poems appear to have been printed in England
during his residence abroad: others were printed
from his manuscripts after his death. Hence pro-
bably the text of no English Poet after 1660 con-
tains so many errors.
See the Note on No. IX.

289 CCLXXV 1. 21 Maenad: a frenzied Nymph, attendant on Dionysus in the Greek mythology.

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290 CCLXXV 1.4 Plants under water sympathize with the seasons of the land, and hence with the winds which affect them.

291 CCLXXVI Written soon after the death, by shipwreck, of Wordsworth's brother John. This Poem should be compared with Shelley's following it. Each is the most complete expression of the innermost spirit of his art given by these great Poets:-of that Idea which, as in the case of the true Painter, (to quote the words of Reynolds,) 'subsists only in the mind: The sight never beheld it, nor has the hand expressed it; it is an idea residing in the breast of the artist, which he is always labouring to impart, and which he dies at last without imparting.'

293 OCLXXVIII Proteus represented the everlasting changes, united with ever-recurrent sameness, of the Sea.

CCLXXIX the Royal Saint. Henry VI.

INDEX OF WRITERS

WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH

ALEXANDER, William (1580-1640) XXII

BACON, Francis (1561-1626) LVII
BARBAULD, Anna Laetitia (1743-1825) CLXV
BARNEFIELD, Richard (16th Century) XXXIV
BEAUMONT, Francis (1586-1616) LXVII

BURNS, Robert (1759-1796) cxxv, CXXXII, CXXXIX, CXLIV,
CXLVIII, CXLIX, CL, CLI, CLIII, CLV, CLVI

BYRON, George Gordon Noel (1788-1824) CLXIX, CLXXI,
CLXXIII, CXC, CCII, CCIX, CCXXII, CCXXXII

CAMPBELL, Thomas (1777-1844) CLXXXI, CLXXXIII, CLXXXVII,
CXCVII, CCVI, CCVII, CCXV, CCLVI, CCLXII, CCLXVII, CCLXXXIII
CAREW, Thomas (1589-1639) LXXXVII

CAREY, Henry (— -1743) CXXXI

CIBBER, Colley (1671-1757) cxix

COLERIDGE, Hartley (1796-1849) CLXXV

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) CLXVIII, CCLXXX

COLLINS, William (1720-1756) CXXIV, CXLI, CXLVI

COLLINS, (18th Century) CLXIV

CONSTABLE, Henry (156--?-1604?) xv

COWLEY, Abraham (1618-1667) CII

COWPER, William (1731-1800) CXXIX, CXXXIV, CXLIII, CLX,

CLXI, CLXII

CRASHAW, Richard (1615 ?-1652) LXXIX

CUNNINGHAM, Allan (1784-1842) CCV

DANIEL, Samuel (1562-1619) xxxv

DEKKER, Thomas (-

-1638?) LIV

DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631) XXXVII

DRUMMOND, William (1585-1649) II, XXXVIII, XLIII, LV, LVIII,

LIX, LXI

DRYDEN, John (1631-1700) LXIII, CXVI

ELLIOTT, Jane (18th Century) cxxvi

FLETCHER, John (1576—1625) civ

GAY, John (1688-1732) cxxx

GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774) cxxxvIII

GRAHAM,

(1735-1797) CXXXIII

GRAY, Thomas (1716-1771) CXVII, CXX, CXXIII, CXL, CXLII,
CXLVII, CLVIII, CLIX

HERBERT, George (1593-1632) LXXIV

HERRICK, Robert (1591-1674?) LXXXII, LXXXVIII, XCII, XCIII,

XCVI, CIX, CX

HEYWOOD, Thomas (-

1649?) LII

HOOD, Thomas (1798-1845) CCXXIV, CCXXXI, CCXXXV

JONSON, Ben (1574-1637) LXXIII, LXXVIII, XC

KEATS, John (1795-1821) CLXVI, CLXVII, CXCI, CXCIII, CXCVIII,

CXCIX, CCXXIX, CCXLIV, CCLV, CCLXX, CCLXXXIV

LAMB, Charles (1775-1835) CCXX, CCXXXIII, CCXXXVII

LINDSAY, Anne (1750-1825) CLII

LODGE, Thomas (1556-1625) XVI

LOGAN, John (1748-1788) cXXVII

LOVELACE, Richard (1618-1658) LXXXIII, XCIX, C

LYLYE, John (1554-1600) LI

MARLOWE, Christopher (1562-1593) v

MARVELL, Andrew (1620-1678) LXV, CXI, CXIV

MICKLE, William Julius (1734-1788) CLIV

MILTON, John (1608-1674) LXII, LXIV, LXVI, LXX, LXXI, LXXVI,
LXXVII, LXXXV, CXII, CXIII, CXV

MOORE, Thomas (1780-1852) CLXXXV, CCI, CCXVII, CCXXI,

CCXXV

NAIRN, Carolina (1766-1845) CLVII
NASH, Thomas (1567-1601?) I

PHILIPS, Ambrose (1671-1749) CXXI
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744) CXVIII
PRIOR, Matthew (1664-1721) CXXXVII

ROGERS, Samuel (1762-1855) CXXXV, CXLV

SCOTT, Walter (1771-1832) CV, CLXX, CLXXXII, CLXXXVI, CXCII,
CXCIV, CXCVI, CCIV, CCXXX, CCXXXIV, CCXXXVI, CCXXXIX,
CCLXIII

SEDLEY, Charles (1639-1701) LXXXI, XCVIII

SEWELL, George (-

-1726) CLXIII

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616) III, IV, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI,
XII, XIII, XIV, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXIII, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII,
XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXVI, XXXIX, XLII, XLIV, XLV,
XLVI, XLVIII, XLIX, L, LVI, LX

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) CLXXII, CLXXVI, CLXXXIV,

CLXXXVIII, CXCV, CCIII, CCXXVI, CCXXVII, CCXLI,
CCLII, CCLPX, CCLX, CCLXIV, CCLXV, CCLXVIII,
CCLXXIV, CCLXXV, CCLXXVII, CCLXXXV, CCLXXXVIII

CCXLVI,

CCLXXI,

SHIRLEY, James (1596-1666) LXVIII, LXIX

SIDNEY, Philip (1554-1586) XXIV

SOUTHEY, Robert (1774-1843) CCXVI, CCXXVIII

SPENSER, Edmund (1553-1598-9) LIII

SUCKLING, John (1608-9-1641) CI

SYLVESTER, Joshua (1563-1618) xxv

THOMSON, James (1700-1748) CXXII, CXXXVI

VAUGHAN, Henry (1621-1695) LXXV
VERE, Edward (1534–1604) XLI

WALLER, Edmund (1605-1687) LXXXIX, XCV

WEBSTER, John (—

1638?) XLVII

WITHER, George (1588-1667) CIII

WOLFE, Charles (1791-1823) CCXVIII

WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850) CLXXIV, CLXXVII, CLXXVIII,
CLXXIX, CLXXX, CLXXXIX, CC, CCV111, CCX, CCXI, CCXII, CCXIII,
CCXIV, CCXIX, CCXXIII, CCXXXVIII, CCXL, CCXLII, COXLIII,
CCXLV, CCXLVII, CCXLVIII, CCXLIX, CCL, CCL1, CCLIII, CCLIV,
CCLVII, CCLVIII, CCLXI, CCLXVI, CCLXIX, CCLXXII, CCLXXIII,
CCLXXVI, CCLXXVIII, CCLXXIX, CCLXXXI, CCLXXXII, CCLXXXVI,
CCLXXXVII

WOTTON, Henry (1568-1639) LXXII, LXXXIV

WYAT, Thomas (1503-1542) XXI, XXXIII

UNKNOWN: IX, XVII, XL, LXXX, LXXXVI, XC1, XCIV, XCVII, CVI,
CVII, CVIII, CXXVIII

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