Editorial note — ANCIENTS
Reading edition
1. Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen (Glasgow, 1855), Vol. IV. For a list of Ogilvie’s works consult Stephen and Lee, Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 1921-22), Vol. XIV. For an estimation of Ogilvie’s relation to the theology of his own day consult James McCosh, The Scottish Philosophy (London, 1875).
2. Life of Samuel Johnson, ed. George Birkbeck Hill (Oxford, 1887), I., 421, 425.
3. Norman Maclean, “From Action to Image: Theories of the Lyric in the Eighteenth Century,” in Critics and Criticism Ancient and Modern, ed. R. S. Crane (Chicago, 1952), pp. 408-463.
4. Ibid., p. 439.
5. John Crowe Ransom, The New Criticism (New York, 1941), p. 15.
6. An Inquiry into the Fine Arts (London, 1784), p. 6.
This facsimile of An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients (1762) is reproduced from a copy in the Duke University Library.