INDEX
Reading edition
Addison, Joseph, 21
“Ælla” (T. Chatterton’s), 163
Akenside, Mark, 16, 27, 69-70, 138-9, 189, 195
Dr. Johnson’s criticism, 16
“Epistle to Curio,” 195
Latinism, 69-70
Personification, 138-9
“Pleasures of the Imagination,” 69
“Alma” (M. Prior’s), 75
“Amyntor and Theodora,” 142
“Anti-Jacobin, The,” 173 n.
“Approach of Summer, The,” 179
“Archaism,” 17-21, 80-101
Aristotle, 10-12, 185
Armstrong, John, 69-70, 110
Arnold, Matthew, 2, 41, 181, 198, 201
“Art of Preserving Health,” 69, 110
Bailey, J. C., 169 n.
Ballads, 95-7, 196
Barfield, Owen, 202 n.
“Bastard, The,” 111
Beattie, James, 19, 93 n., 125
Beers, H. A., 97 n.
“Beowulf, The,” 104 n.
Binyon, Laurence, 13 n.
“Birth of Flattery, The” (G. Crabbe’s), 168
Blair, Robert, 110, 176 n.
Blake, William, 28, 46-7, 77, 99, 124, 129, 136-59, 163-7, 179-80, 181, 187 n., 198, 202
Allegory and Vision, remarks on, 165
Artist, as, 136, 159 n.
Compounds, 124, 129
Felicity of diction, 46-7, 202
“Imitation of Spenser,” 47, 165
“Muses, To the,” 47
Mysticism, 164
Personifications, 163-7, 179-80
“Piper, The,” 202
“Songs of Experience,” 46, 165 n., 166
“Songs of Innocence,” 46, 165
Stock diction, 46-7
Blount, T., 93
Boswell’s “Life of Johnson,” 16 n.
“Botanic Garden” (E. Darwin’s), 12, 51-2, 126, 173-5
Bowles, William Lisle, 48
Boyce, S., 162
Bruce, Michael, 122
Burns, Robert, 28, 100, 198
Bysshe, Edward, 30
“By-ways Round Helicon”, 195 n.
Campbell, Dykes, 128 n.
Canning, George, 139, 173 n.
Capell, Edward, 95-6
“Castaway, The,” 49, 170
“Castle of Indolence,” 90-2, 161
Chapman, George, 105
“Charge to the Poets” (W. Whitehead’s), 20 n.
“Chase, The” (W. Somerville’s), 68, 110, 142
Chatterton, Thomas, 19, 42-3, 97-8, 123-4, 162-3
Compounds, 123-4
Personifications, 162-3
“Rowley Poems,” 97-8
Stock diction, 42-3
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 26, 84-6, 133
Chaucerian imitations, 84-6
Chesterfield, Lord, 20
“Child of Quality, Lines to” (M. Prior’s), 195
“Choice, The” (J. Pomfret’s), 195
Churchill, John, 139-40, 169-70
Classical literature (connexion with romantic), 181-2
Coleridge, H. N., 156 n.
Coleridge, S. T., 1, 13, 24, 31, 32, 51, 100, 127-8, 156, 173, 182, 193, 204
Archaisms, 100
Compounds, 127-8
Darwin, E., remarks, on, 13, 173
Gray’s personifications, on, 156
Imagination, on, 13
“Letters,” 173 n.
Pope’s style, on, 24, 32, 193
Collins, William, 16, 40-1, 71, 98, 116-7, 129, 149, 150-5, 166, 167, 191, 196
Archaisms, 98
Compounds, 116-7, 129
Dr. Johnson’s criticisms of, 16, 40, 151
“Odes,” 149 n., 150-5
Personifications, 150-5, 166, 167, 178, 179, 191
Romantic forerunner, a, 196
Stock diction, 40-1
Compound epithets, 4, 102-31, 204
“Convention and Revolt in Poetry,” 200 n.
Coventry, F., 147
Cowper, William, 20, 24, 31, 48-50, 73-4, 76, 126, 168-73
Archaism, on, 20
Compounds, 126
Familiar style, on the, 24
“Homer” translation, 48, 74, 126
Latinism, 73-5
“Olney Hymns,” 49, 169
Personifications, 169-73, 179
Stock diction, 48-9
“Table Talk,” 49
“Task, The,” 49, 73-4, 170-1
Crabbe, George, 50-1, 124-5, 167-8, 179, 195, 204
Compounds, 124-5
Dryden’s style, on, 204
Personifications, 167-8, 179
Stock diction, 50-1
Croxall, Samuel, 93 n.
Cunningham, John, 27, 189
Darwin, Erasmus, 12, 37, 51-2, 53, 120, 173-5
Davenant, Sir William, 21
Denham, Sir John, 15
Dennis, John, 11 n.
De Quincey, Thomas, 52
“Descriptive Sketches,” 52, 175, 176 n.
“Deserted Village, The,” 45-6, 111-2, 195
Diderot, Denis, 203
Dodsley, Robert, 147, 195
Drayton, Michael, 107
Drinkwater, John, 9 n.
Dryden, John, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 26-7, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 58-9, 81-2, 83, 105-6, 109, 134, 181, 194, 204
“Annus Mirabilis,” 8
Archaisms, 18, 81-2
Chaucer “translations,” 26-7
Compounds, 105-6
“Essays” and “Prefaces,” 7-11
“Hind and Panther,” 195
Language of poetry, on, 8-9
Latinism, 58-9
Periphrasis, use of, 28, 33
Personifications, 134
“Religio Laici,” 194
Royal Society, 7
Satire, 106, 140
Technical terms, on, 21
“Duellist, The” (Charles Churchill’s), 140 n.
Dyer, John, 39, 70, 109, 142, 188-9
Earle, J., 35 n.
“Economy of Vegetation,” 12, 126, 173-4
Edmonds, C., 173 n.
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” 42, 72, 157, 159, 195, 198
“Eloisa to Abelard,” 134
Emerson, O., 104 n.
“English Lyric in the Age of Reason,” 195
“Enthusiast, The,” 71, 121, 149
“Epistle to Curio” (M. Akenside’s), 195 n.
Epithalamium (W. Thompson’s), 160
“Essay on Criticism,” 9-10, 29 n., 195
“Eton College, Ode on a Distant View of,” 156
Evelyn, John, 7
“Evening, Ode to,” 41, 116, 155
“Evening Walk, The,” 52, 127, 175-6
“Excursion, The” (David Mallet’s), 142
“Faerie Queene,” 87, 94, 99, 133, 159-60, 192
Falconer, William, 22, 43-4
“Fleece, The,” (J. Dyer’s), 39, 70
Fletcher, Giles, 57
Fletcher, Phineas, 57
“Fugitive Poets” (Bell’s), 122, 147 n., 195
Furetière, Antoine, 5
Gay, John, 33, 109
Gibbon, Edward, 198
Glanvill, Joseph, 7
Goldsmith, Oliver, 14-15, 20, 44-6, 72, 111-2, 140-1, 195
Archaism, on, 20
Compounds, in, 117-8
Diction of poetry, on, 15
Latinism, 72-3
Personifications, 141-2, 179
Stock diction, 44-6
Graeme, James, 122
Grainger, James, 70, 110, 142
“Grave,” the (Robert Blair’s), 110
Gray, Thomas, 8, 16-17, 18-19, 21-2, 31, 41-2, 67, 71-2, 93 n., 98-9, 117-20, 146, 155-9, 177, 196
Archaisms, on, 18-19, 98-9
Coinages, on, 21
Compounds, 117-20
Diction of poetry, on, 8, 16-17
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” 42, 72, 157, 159, 195, 198
Latinism, 71-2
Personifications, 155-9, 177, 191
Plain colloquial style, 17, 195
Romantic forerunner, A, 150, 196
Stock diction, 41-2
Technical terms, on, 22
Grierson, H. J. C., 159 n.
“Grongar Hill,” 39, 109, 184, 188, 190
Hamilton, William (of Bangor), 146
“Hind and Panther, The,” 195
“Horror, Ode to,” 148
Hughes, John, 83
Hume, David, 198
“Hymn to May” (W. Thompson’s), 160
“Il Bellicoso,” 147
“Il Pacifico,” 147
“Il Penseroso,” 71, 176
“Inebriety,” 167
Jago, R., 122
Johnson, Dr., 15-16, 17, 19-20, 23, 31, 40-2, 44, 72-3, 111, 119, 140-1, 151, 159, 177, 179
Archaism, 19-20
Collins, on, 150, 151
Compounds, 111, 119-20
Diction, on, 15-16
“Dictionary,” 140 n.
Dryden, on, 8
Gray’s personifications, on, 156 n.
Latinism, 73
Personifications, 140-1, 177, 179
Pope’s style, on, 23, 31, 193
Satire, 139
Stock diction, 45
Jonson, Ben, 17-18
Keats, John, 126, 128, 129, 144, 187, 188, 192, 196, 203, 204
Kersey, John, 97
“L’Allegro,” 162, 176
Langhorne, J., 122
Langland, William, 133
Latinism, 56-79, 191-2
Lee, Vernon, 197 n.
“Legacy of Greece, The,” 199
Lessing’s “Laokoon,” 12 n.
Lloyd, Robert, 88 n.
“London” (Dr. Johnson’s), 111, 140-1
“Loves of the Plants” (E. Darwin’s), 12, 173
“Loves of the Triangles” (G. Canning’s), 173 n.
Lowes, Professor J. L., 200
“Lyrical Ballads,” 1, 2, 175
Lyttleton, G., 119
Maeterlinck, M., 200
Mallet, D., 110, 144 n., 142
Marlowe, Christopher, 105 n.
Marriott, Dr., 147
Mason, William, 86, 146-7
Masson, David, 58 n.
Mendez, Moses, 88, 122
Milton, John, 8, 33-6, 41, 57-8, 60, 61, 62, 66, 70, 71, 72, 76, 77, 81, 94, 107, 133, 136, 142, 146-7, 148, 149, 150, 176-7, 191-2
Archaism, 81, 94
Compound epithets, 105
Diction, 34-6, 57-8
Imitated in eighteenth century, 60-70, 76-7, 146-50, 191-2
Latinism, 57-8, 177
Personification, 133, 137, 142, 146-7, 176-7
“Monody written near Stratford-on-Avon,” 149 n.
Murray, Gilbert, 199
Nashe, Thomas, 105 n.
Neo-classicism, 9-13, 53-4
“Night Thoughts” (E. Young’s), 28, 68-9, 136-8
“Nocturnal Reverie” (Countess of Winchilsea’s), 187
Old English Compounds, 104
“Ossian” poems, 19, 166
“Paradise Lost,” 34-6, 57-8, 76, 133, 136, 184
Parnell, Thomas, 135-6
“Passions, Ode to the,” 153
“Penshurst” (F. Coventry’s), 147
Percy, Bishop, 96-7
Personification and abstraction, 133-80, 190-1
Phelps, W. L., 142 n.
Philips, John, 37, 60-1, 86, 109, 142
“Pity, Ode to” (W. Collins’), 153
“Pleasures of the Imagination” (M. Akenside’s), 69, 138-9, 189
“Pleasures of Melancholy, The” (T. Warton’s), 71, 121
“Poetical Character, Ode on the” (W. Collins’s), 152
“Poetical Sketches” (W. Blake’s), 99, 167, 181
Pomfret, John, 195
Pope, Alexander, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21-2, 23-4, 25, 29, 31-4, 36-7, 40, 42, 45, 46, 48, 50, 54, 59-60, 67, 73, 81, 82-3, 85, 106-9, 111, 115, 130, 134, 135, 136, 139, 140, 183, 184, 185, 189, 193-4, 204
Archaism, 18, 82-3
Compounds, 21, 106-9
Diction, 33, 36-7
“Dunciad,” 18, 134
“Essay on Criticism,” 14, 29 n., 195
Heroic couplet, 29-30, 31-2
“Homer,” 2, 14, 17, 31-2, 40, 48, 184
Language of poetry, 9-10
Latinism, 59-60
Personifications, 134
Satire, 139, 140
Potter, R., 122
Prior, Matthew, 75, 87, 95, 195
“Progress of Error” (W. Cowper’s), 170
“Progress of Poetry” (Thomas Gray’s), 72
“Prolusions” (E. Capell’s), 95-6
“Rape of the Lock,” 134
“Religio Laici,” 194
“Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,” 19, 96-7
Ritson, Joseph, 96 n.
Robertson, J. L., 6 n., 62
Rogers, Samuel, 125-6
Romanticism, connexion with classicism, 181-2
Rowley poems, 42-4, 97-8, 162-3
“Ruins of Rome” (J. Dyer’s), 109, 142
Ruskin, John, 180
Russell, A. J. B., 164 n.
Savage, Richard, 75, 111, 136
Schmidt’s “Shakespeare Lexicon,” 35
“Schoolmistress, The,” 88-9, 161
Scott, John, 123
Scott, Sir Walter, 100, 192
“Seasons, The” (J. Thomson’s), 37-9, 62-8, 112-6, 142-6, 190, 196, 198
Shakespeare, William, 35, 105 n., 129
Shawcross, T. (see “Biographia Literaria”).
Shelley, P. B., 126, 178, 203, 204
Shenstone, W., 26, 29, 75, 88-9, 118 n., 161
“Shorter Poems of the Eighteenth Century,” 195 n.
Sidney, Sir Philip, 105 n.
Smart, Christopher, 169 n.
Somerville, William, 110, 142
“Song to David,” 169 n.
Spence, Joseph, 12
Spenser, Edmund, 80-1, 105 n., 133, 159-60, 191, 192
Spenserian imitations, 18, 84, 86-94, 160-2, 178, 191, 192
Sprat, Thomas, 6, 7
Stock diction, The, 25-55, 183-7
“Stones of Venice, The” (J. Ruskin’s), 180 n.
“Storie of William Canynge,” 163
“Sugar Cane, The,” 70, 110, 142
Swift, Jonathan, 139
Symbolism, 13, 164, 179, 180
Symons, Arthur, 47 n.
“Syr Martin,” 93, 125, 162 n.
“Table Talk” (S. T. Coleridge’s), 156 n.
“Table Talk” (W. Cowper’s), 49, 170
Taine, H., 183
“Task, The” (W. Cowper’s), 49, 73-4, 170-1
Theory of diction, 5-24
Thomson, James, 37-9, 62-8, 76, 77, 78, 90-2, 94, 112-6, 131, 142-6, 161, 167, 179, 186, 188
“Castle of Indolence,” 90-2, 161
Compounds, 112-6, 131
Diction generally, 37, 67
Latinism, 62-8, 78, 192
Miltonic borrowings, 37, 66
Nature poet, a, 37, 78, 186
Personifications, 142-6, 161, 166, 178-9
Romantic forerunner, a, 196
“Seasons, The,” 37-9, 62-8, 112-6, 142-6, 190, 195, 196, 198
Stock diction, 37-8
Thompson, W., 61-2, 85, 89-90, 118 n.
“Tintern Abbey, Lines written above,” 131
“Traveller, The” (O. Goldsmith’s), 45, 72, 112, 141
Trenery, Grace R., 95 n.
“Triumph of Isis,” 149 n.
Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 86, 98 n.
Upton, John, 93 n.
“Vacation, The,” 147
“Vale Abbey, Lines written at” (T. Warton’s), 149
“Valetudinarian, The,” 147
“Vanity of Human Wishes,” 73, 111, 140-1, 195
“Village, The” (G. Crabbe’s), 167, 168, 195
“Vision of Patience” (S. Boyce’s), 162
“Vision of Solomon” (W. Whitehead’s), 162
Wakefield, Benjamin, 95 n.
Waller, Edmund, 15
Walpole, Horace, 119, 156 n.
“Wanderer, The” (R. Savage’s), 111, 136
Ward, A. W., 204 n.
Warton, Joseph, 21, 70-1, 121, 134, 148-9
Warton, Thomas, 71, 83, 84, 85, 86, 120-1, 149
Watson, George, 100 n.
Watts, Isaac, 49
Welsted, Leonard, 59 n.
Wesley, John, 49, 50, 198
Wesley, Charles, 49
West, Gilbert, 118 n.
White, Gilbert (of Selborne), 28
White, H. O., 148 n.
Whitehead, W., 20 n., 122, 162
Williams, I. O., 195 n.
Wilson, Sir James, 100 n.
Winchilsea, Anne, Countess of, 61, 109, 187-8
“Windsor Forest,” 134
Wordsworth, William, 1, 3, 13, 15, 24, 25, 27 n., 28, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 48, 51-3, 67, 68, 77, 79, 97, 115, 132, 175, 182, 185, 187, 189, 192, 193, 197, 201, 204
Archaism, 100
Compounds, 127
Darwin’s (Erasmus) influence, 52-4, 175
Latinism, 79, 192
Percy’s “Reliques,” on, 97
Personifications, 133, 175-6, 178, 180
Pope’s style, on, 24
“Prefaces,” 1, 53, 132, 182, 197, 204
“Prelude, The,” 184-5
Wyche, Sir Peter, 7
“Yardley Oak” (W. Cowper’s), 131, 172
Yeats, W. B., 164 n.
Young, Edward, 9 n., 28, 68-9, 136-8, 151