INDEX
Reading edition
Abbaye de Creteil, 303-4
Acton, Lord, 328
Addison, J., relation of, to Romanticists, 70-1; 68, 76, 82
Agnes de Castro, by Catharine Trotter, 43-5
Akenside, 74
Allard-Méeus, J., 273
Alroy, by B. Disraeli, 161
American criticism, and Edgar Allan Poe, 104, 105
Anne, Queen, 58
Annabel Lee, by E.A. Poe, 103, 112
Argyll, Duke of, 320
Ariosto, 84, 85
Arnauld, Angelique, 39
Arnold, M., 3, 68, 71, 133, 267
Arnold, Dr. T., Mr. Strachey's portrait of, 326-7
Asquith, Mr., Romanes lecture of, 332-5
Bacon, 17
Bagehot, W., 96
Balfour, A.J., re standards of taste, 4, 5, 10
Ballenden, Sarah, 40
Baring, M., poems of, 265, 273-5
Barrie, Sir J., 100
Barry, Mrs., 57
Batsford, Lord Redesdale at, 217-8, 222, 224-8, 229
Baudelaire, 106
Bayle, 59
Behn, Aphra, 39
Bell, T., of Selborne, 182
Berkeley, 98
Betterton, 48, 57
Birch, Rev. Dr., 61
Blake, W., 5, 90
Blessington, Lady, 131
Boileau, 70, 77, 82
Booth, 57
Bottomley, G., 262
Bridges, R., War poetry of, 161; 110
de Brillac, Mlle., 44
Brontë, Charlotte, dislike of Dewsbury, 142-3;
message of, arose from pain and resistance, 144;
her unhappiness, its causes, 145-6;
defiance the note of her writings, 146-50
Brontë, Emily, 149
Brontës, The Challenge of the, address delivered on, 141-50;
their connexion with Dewsbury, 141-2
Brooke, Rupert, poems of, 268-70
Browning, R., 9, 81, 132
Brunetière, 7
Bruxambille, 95
Bryant, 107, 108
Bulwer-Lytton, E., ambiguity of his position in literature, 117;
R. Lytton's biography, 118, 121;
Lord Lytton's biography, 117, 118-9, 120, 122, 129, 130, 131, 133, 137;
autobiography, 119-20;
story of matrimonial troubles, 121-9;
character, 129-30;
acquaintances and friends, 130-2;
relations with contemporary writers and poets, 132-4;
stormy life, 134;
unfavourable attitude of critics towards, 134-5;
popularity of his writings, 135-6;
versatility and merits, 136-7; 178
Bulwer-Lytton, Mrs., opposition to Bulwer-Lytton's marriage, 124-7
Burghclere, Lady, open letter to, on Lady D. Nevill, 181-96
Burnet, George, 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60
Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop, patron of the Trotters, 41, 52, 53
Burnet, Mrs., 52, 53
Burney, Dr., 33
Burton, 96
Byron, 76, 104, 108, 148, 161-2
Carlyle, 100
Carlyle, Mrs., her opinion of Keats, 9
Catullus, 84
Charles II, 40, 41
Chateaubriand, 74
Chatterton, 87
Cibber, Colley, 44
Classic poetry, Romanticists' revolt against principles of, 70-90
Clough, A.H., 325, 328
Cockburn, Mr., 60, 61
Coleridge, 104, 108, 274
Collier, Jeremy, attack on stage immorality, 47
Collins, 86, 110
Colonisation, England's debt to Walter Raleigh, 24-5
Congreve, Catherine Trotter's relations with, 43, 47, 48, 50; 57, 58
Coningsby, by B. Disraeli, 153, 164, 165-6, 169, 170-2, 173
Contarini Fleming, by B. Disraeli, 159-61, 162
Corbett, N.M.F., poems of, 275
Cowes in war time, 219-21
Cowley, 82
Cowper, 253
Crabbe, G., Hardy compared with, 248
Cranch, C.P., 105
Cromer, Lord, essay on, 196-216;
intellectual and literary activity, 197-8;
as a speaker, 198-200;
interest in House of Lords Library, 200;
classical tastes, 200-203;
conversation, attitude to life and letters, 204-8;
correspondence and reflections, 208-10;
humour, 210-12;
verse, 212-15;
literary activities, 215-16
Dacier, Mme., 52
Dacre, by Countess of Morley, 153, 156
Dante, 225-6
Dartmouth, George, Earl of, 40, 42
D'Aubigné, 78
Daudet, A., 252
Daudet, E., 229-30
Davies, W.H., 262
De Vere, Mrs., 59
Devey, Miss, "Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton," by, 121
Dewsbury, the Brontës' connexion with, 141-2
Dickens, C, 100, 128, 131
Disraeli, B., novels of, address, 153-78;
not taken seriously as an author, 153-4;
three periods of writing, 154-5;
contemporary fiction, 155-6;
Vivian Grey, 156-9;
The Young Duke, 157;
Henrietta Temple, 159;
Contarini Fleming, 159-60;
Byron's influence on, 161;
Voltaire's influence on, 162;
fascinated by Venice, 163;
Venetia, 163;
Parliamentary experience and literary results, 164;
Coningsby, 165-6;
Sybil, 167-8;
Tancred, 169-72;
Prime Minister, 172;
Lothair, 173-8; 131, 135
Donne, J., 78, 111, 236, 244, 252
Dorset, Charles, Earl of, 43
Dowden, 34
Doyle, Sir A.C., 103
Dryden, 34, 49, 50, 70, 82, 274
Du Bos, Abbé, 90
Durham, Lord, 131
Dyer, 70
Elizabeth, Queen, sympathy between Raleigh and, 18
Eloisa to Abelard, by Pope, its appeal to Romanticists, 83-4
Emerson, 107
Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey, review of, 318-32
English Poetry, The Future of, 289-309;
instances of national lapses in poetic output, 290;
necessity of novelty of expression and difficulties arising, 291-2;
advantages of vernacular poetry, 293;
future poetry bound to dispense with obvious description and reflection and to take on greater subtlety of expression, 294-7;
Wordsworth's speculations concerning nineteenth-century poetry, 298-9;
prospect of social poetry, 299-301;
"effusion of natural sensibility" more probable, 302-3;
French experiments, 303-4;
as to disappearance of erotic poetry, 305-6;
dramatic poetry and symbolism, 306-9
Essay on Criticism, by Pope, Romanticists' attack upon, 71-4
Essay on Genius of Pope, by J. Warton, 80-3
Farquhar, 48
Fatal Friendship, by C. Trotter, 47-8
Fawcett, Rev. J., 97
Fenn, Mr., 60
Fletcher, John, songs of, 35
For Annie, by E.A. Poe, 112
Ford, songs of, 35
Forster, John, 131-2, 133
France, Anatole, 7
Gaskell, Mrs., 141
Gautier, T., 6, 10
Genoa, Duke of, 133
Georgian poetry, its pre-war characteristics, 261-2
Gibbon, 98
Gibson, W.W., 262
Gilbert, Sir H., 25
Gilpin, 87
Godolphin, Henrietta, 58
Goethe, 161
de Goncourt, E., 252
Gongora, 78
Gordon, General, 15;
Mr. Strachey's portrait of, 329-30
Gore, Mrs., 178
de Gourmont, Rémy, his opinion of Sully-Prudhomme, 9, 10
de Gournay, Mlle., 39
Granville, 47
Graves, R., poetry of, 280-1
Gray, 89, 108
Greene, 32
Grenfell, J., poems of, 271-3
Guiana, Raleigh's "gold mine" in, 20
Halifax, Lord, 50
Handel, 80
Harcourt, Mrs., 57
Hardy, Thomas, lyrical poetry of, 233-58;
independence of his career as a poet, 233-4;
unity and consistence of his poetry, 234;
sympathy with Swinburne, 235;
historic development of lyrics, 236;
novel writing interfering with, 237-8;
place of poetry in his literary career, 238;
"Wessex Ballads" and "Poems of Past and Present," 238-40;
"The Dynasts" and "Times' Laughing Stocks," 240-2;
"Satires of Circumstance," 242-3;
"Moments of Vision," 243-4;
technical quality of his poetry, 244;
metrical forms, 245-6;
pessimistic conception of life, 247-8;
compared with Crabbe, 248;
consolation found by, 249-51;
compared with Wordsworth, 251;
human sympathy, 251;
range of subjects, 252-5;
speculations on immortality, 256;
"The Dynasts," 68, 257;
unchangeableness of his art, 257-8;
"Song of the Soldiers," 263
Hawthorne, 107
Hayley, 5
Hazlitt, 301
Henrietta Temple, by B. Disraeli, 153, 159
Heywood, songs of, 35
Higgons, Bevil, 43
Hobbes, 98
Hodgson, W.N., 284
Homer, 12
Hooker, 17
Hope, H.T., 164
Housman, A.E., 268
Hugo, V., 6, 12, 111, 134
Hume, 98
Hunt, Leigh, 104
Inglis, Dr., 51, 58
Ireland, Raleigh in, 23
James I, distrust and treatment of Raleigh, 19, 20, 21
James II, 42
Johnson, Dr., his opinion of the Wartons, 86, 98
Jowett, Dr., 320
Keats, Mrs. Carlyle's opinion of, 9; 5, 90, 104, 105
King, Peter, 53, 59
Kipling, R., poetry of, 300
Landon, Letitia, 131
Lansdowne, Lord, 191
Lauderdale, Earl of, 42
Lauderdale, Maitland, Duke of, 40, 41
Lawson, H., poems of, 284
Lee, 50
Leibnitz, 42, 54, 55, 56, 59
Lemaître, J., 7
Lewis, "Monk," 162
Locke, Catharine Trotter's defence of, 53-5;
death of, 55; 42
Lockhart, 135
Lodge, 32
Lothair, by B. Disraeli, 173-8
Love at a Loss, by Catharine Trotter, 51
Lowell, 108
Lucas, Lord, 274
Lyly, John, 31
Lytton, Bulwer-, see Bulwer-Lytton.
Lytton, Lord, biography of Bulwer-Lytton, 117, 118-19, 120, 122, 129, 130, 131, 133, 137
Lytton, R., biography of Bulwer-Lytton, 118, 121
Macaulay, Lord, 320-1
Macpherson, 86
Malebranche, 52
Malherbe, 70, 77
Mallarmé, 77, 106
Malory's Morte d'Arthur, 85
Manley, Mrs., 44, 45, 46, 61
Manning, Cardinal, Mr. Strachey's portrait of, 323, 330-2
Manoa, 19
Mant, 73
Marinetti, M., 305, 318
Marini, 78
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, 57
Marlborough, Duke of, Catharine Trotter's poem of welcome to, 58
Marlowe, songs of, 34
Marsh, E., 261
Masham, Lady, 55, 56, 59
Massinger, 35
Melbourne, Lord, 131
Memories, by Lord Redesdale, 216, 217, 219, 221
Milton, influence upon eighteenth-century poetry, 79; 82, 110
Mitford, Major Hon. C, 218
Mockel, A., 112
Moments of Vision, by T. Hardy, 243-4
Monckton-Milnes, Sir R., 133
Morris, 104
Myers, F., 320
Nevill, Lady Dorothy, Open Letter to Lady Burghclere on, 181-96;
memoirs of, 181-2;
writer's friendship with, 182;
appearance and physical strength, 183-4;
characteristics, 184-5;
a spectator of life, 186-7;
attitude to the country, 187;
wit, conversation and correspondence, 187-92;
relation to literature and art, 192-4;
emotional nature, 194-6
Nevill, Ralph, Memoirs of Lady D. Nevill by, 181-2
Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of, 39
Nichols, R., poetry of, 276-80
Nietzsche, 219-20
Nightingale, Florence, Mr. Strachey's Life of, 324
Norris, John, 52, 53
Obermann, 76
Observations on the Faerie Queene, by T. Warton, 84-6
Ode on the Approach of Summer, by T. Warton, 79
Odes, by J. Warton, 69, 75, 80
Otway, 50
Panmure, Lord, 325-6
Paris, Gaston, 7, 8
Parnell, 76
Parr, Dr. S., 120
Pater, W., 71
Patmore, C., 237
Peacock, 104
Peele, 32
Péguy, C., 268
Pelham, by Sir E. Bulwer-Lytton, the author of, 117-37; 135, 155
Pepys, S., 27
Perth, 4th Earl of, 40, 42
Philip van Artevelde, by H. Taylor, 107
Piers, Lady, 50, 51
Piers, Sir G., 50
Pix, Mrs. Mary, 45, 46, 61
Poe, E.A., centenary of, address on, 103-13;
importance as a poet ignored, 103;
original want of recognition of, 104-5;
his reaction to unfriendly criticism, 105-6;
essential qualities of his genius, 106-7;
contemporary conception of poetry, 107-8;
his ideal of poetry, 108;
influences upon, 108-9;
early verses, poetic genius in, 109;
melodiousness of, 110-11;
symbolism of, 112-13
Poems and Ballads, by A.C. Swinburne, Bulwer-Lytton's support of, 133-4
Poems of Past and Present, by T. Hardy, 238-40
Pope, Romanticists' revolt against classicism of, 70-90; 68
Prussia, Sophia Charlotte, Queen of, 58
Rabelais, 90
Radcliffe, Mrs., 85, 162
Raleigh, North Carolina, foundation of, 25-6
Raleigh, W., junr., 20
Raleigh, Sir W., address delivered on Tercentenary celebration of, 15-27;
patriotism and hatred of Spain, 15-17, 21-2;
character, 18;
adventurous nature, 18-19;
James I and, 19-20;
his El Dorado dreams, 20;
fall and trial, 21;
savage aspects of, 23;
as a naval strategist, 23-4;
genius as coloniser, 24-5;
imprisonment and execution, 26-7
Ramsay, Allan, 70
Redesdale, Lord, last days of, 216-30;
literary career, 216-7;
vitality: pride in authorship and garden, 217-8;
death of son, 218;
"Memories," 219;
loneliness and problem of occupying his time, 219-22;
origin of last book, its theme, 222-4;
last days, 224-30
René, 76
Rentoul, L., poems of, 284
Retté, A., 112
Reynolds, 104
Ritson, Joseph, attack upon T. Warton, 88-9
Roanoke, Virginia, British settlement in, 25
Roche, Lord and Lady, 23
Romanticism, Two Pioneers of, Joseph and Thomas Warton, address on, 65-90
Romantic movement, features of, 71-90
Rossetti, D.G., 104, 136
Rousseau, J.J., English Romanticists' relation to, 68, 68, 75
Ruskin, 100
Russell, Odo, 330
Sainte-Beuve, 6
Sappho, 84
Sassoon, S., poems of, 282-4
Satires of Circumstance, by T. Hardy, 242-3
Satow, Sir E., 223
Scott, Sir W., 108, 128, 135
Scudéry, M. de, 39
Seaman, Sir G., war invective of, 264
Selbourne, Lord, 320
Selden, 98
Senancour, 74
Sentimental Journey, The, by L. Sterne, 96, 100
Seventeenth century, English women writers of, 39
Shakespeare, the Songs of, 31-5;
their dramatic value, 31-3;
lyrical qualities, 33-5;
comparison with contemporary lyricists, 35; 17, 82
Shelley, 74, 104, 108, 162
Shenstone, 70
Shepherd of the Ocean, The, 15-27
Shorter, C., 141
Some Soldier Poets, 261-85;
outbreak of war poetry, 262-3;
mildness of British Hymns of Hate, 264-5;
military influence upon poetic feeling, 265-6;
tendency to dispense with form, 266;
common literary influences, 267-8;
Rupert Brooke, 268-70;
J. Grenfell, 271-3;
M. Baring, 273-5;
N.M.F. Corbett, 275;
E.W. Tennant, 275;
R. Nichols, 276-80;
R. Graves, 280-1;
S. Sassoon, 282-4;
C.H. Sorley, W.N. Hodgson, K. Lawson, L. Rentoul, R.E. Vernède, 284
Sorley, C.H., poems of, 284
Southey, 5, 104
Spain, Anglo-Spanish rivalry in days of Walter Raleigh, 16-17, 21-3, 24
Spenser, 17, 82, 84, 111
Stephen, Sir Leslie, 106, 237
Sterne, Laurence, Essay on the Charm of, 93-100;
birth and childhood, 93-4;
temperament, 94-5;
intellectual development, 95-6;
alternation of feeling about, 97;
English literature's debt to, 98;
his "indelicacy," 99;
irrelevancy, 99;
Shandean influences upon literature, 100
Sterne, Mrs., 93
Sterne, Roger, 93
Stevenson, R.L., 100
Strachey, Lytton, "Eminent Victorians" by, review of, 318-32
Stukeley, Sir L., 21
Sully-Prudhomme, fluctuations in taste as regards, 5-9
Sumners, Montagu, 39
Swinburne, A. C, Bulwer-Lytton and, 133-4;
Hardy's sympathy with, 235; 68, 81, 111
Symbolism and poetry, 308-9
Tales of Old Japan, by Lord Redesdale, 216
Tancred, by B. Disraeli, 153
Taste, fluctuations in, 3-12;
regarding Wordsworth, 3-4;
Mr. Balfour's conclusions, 4-5, 10;
volte-face concerning Sully-Prudhomme, 5-10
Tea-Table Miscellany, 70
Temple, Mrs., 45
Tennant, E.W., poetry of, 275
Tennyson, Victorian opinion of, 320-1; 7, 12, 81, 106, 116, 132, 299
Thackeray, 144
The Bamboo Garden, by Lord Redesdale, 216
The Bells, by E.A. Poe, 111
The Dynasts, by T. Hardy, 240, 257
The Enthusiast, by Joseph Warton, importance of, 69, 73
The Female Wits, by Catharine Trotter, 45-6
The Raven, by E.A. Poe, 108, 111
The Revolution in Sweden, by Catharine Trotter, 57-8
The Unhappy Penitent, by Catharine Trotter, 50-1
The Young Duke, by B. Disraeli, 153, 157
Thomson, James, 78, 307
Thomson's Castle of Indolence, 68
Times' Laughing Stocks, by T. Hardy, 240-2
Tottel's Miscellany, 261
Tristram Shandy, by L. Sterne, 94, 96, 98, 99, 100
Trotter, Capt. D., R.N., 40
Trotter, Catharine, 39-62;
precocity, 39, 42;
parentage, 40;
poverty, 41-2;
early verses, 43;
correspondence with celebrated people, 43;
Agnes de Castro, 43-5;
The Female Wits, 45-6;
Fatal Friendship, 47-9;
elegy on Dryden's death, 49-50;
The Unhappy Penitent, 50-1;
Love at a Loss, 51;
friendship with the Burnets, 52;
philosophical studies, 42, 52-3;
enthusiasm for Locke, 53, 55;
The Revolution in Sweden, 54, 57;
correspondence with Leibnitz, 55;
indignation at aspersions on feminine intellectuality, 56-7;
poem of welcome to Marlborough, 58;
attachment to G. Burnet, 59-60;
marriage with Mr. Cockburn, 60;
later life, 60-1
Trotter, Mrs., poverty of, 41
Tupper, 5
Turkey Company, 40
Ulalume, by E.A. Poe, 103, 107, 109, 112
Upchear, Henry, 31
Veluvana, by Lord Redesdale, theme of, 222-4, 226
Venetia, by B. Disraeli, 163
Venice, its fascination for Disraeli, 163
Verbruggen, Mrs., 45
Verlaine, Paul, 7
Vernède, R.E., poems of, 284
de Verville, B., 95, 95, 96
Victorian Age, the Agony of, 313-37
Virgil, 12
Vivian Grey, by B. Disraeli, 155, 156, 157-9
Voltaire, 3, 162
Waller, 82
Warburton, Dr., 33, 81, 97
Ward, Mrs. Humphrey, 144, 327
Ward, Plumer, novels of, 155, 156, 178
Warton, Joseph and Thomas; Two Pioneers of Romanticism, address on, 65-90;
parentage and early habits, 66-7;
heralds of romantic movement, 67;
literary contemporaries and atmosphere, 68;
Joseph, the leading spirit, 68-9;
The Enthusiast, its romantic qualities, 69;
their revolt against principles of classic poetry, 70-4;
characteristic features of early Romanticism, 74-9;
Miltonic influence, 79-80;
Essay on the Genius of Pope, 80-4;
Observations on the Faerie Queene, 84-6;
Johnson's criticism of, 86-7;
Ritson's attack upon Thomas, 88;
defects of, 89-90
Webster's White Devil, 34
Wessex Ballads, by T. Hardy, 238-40
Wheeler, R.D. (Lady Lytton), Miss Devey's Life of, 121;
story of marriage with Bulwer-Lytton, 121-9
Whitehead, 74
William III, 41
Willis, N.P., 105
Wilson, Harriette, 130-1
Wolseley, Lord, 328
Wooler, Miss, 141, 142, 143
Wordsworth, Hardy compared with, 251;
speculations concerning future poetry, 298-9; 3, 4, 10, 74, 78, 90, 104, 107, 108, 110, 253
Wycherley, 44
Yeats, 70
Young, 68, 69, 81