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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

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