PAGE NO. 206 CCX Switzerland was usurped by the French under 209 ccxv This battle was fought Dec. 2, 1800, between the Hohen 212 CCXVIII After the capture of Madrid by Napoleon, Sir J. Moore retreated before Soult and Ney to Corunna, and was killed whilst covering the embarcation of his troops. His tomb, built by Ney, bears this inscription 'John Moore, leader of the English armies, slain in battle, 1809.' 225 ccxxix The Mermaid was the club-house of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other choice spirits of that age. 226 ccxxx Maisie: Mary.-Scott has given us nothing more complete and lovely than this little song, which unites simplicity and dramatic power to a wild-wood music of the rarest quality. No moral is drawn, far less any conscious analysis of feeling attempted :the pathetic meaning is left to be suggested by the mere presentment of the situation. A narrow criticism has 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. 231 CCXXXIV correi: covert on a hillside. Cumber: trouble. 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. 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. 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 appears to be,-On the PAGE NO. 285 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. 1. 24 Amphitrite was daughter to Ocean. 289 CCLXXv 1. 21 Maenad: a frenzied Nymph, attendant on Dionysos in the Greek mythology. 290 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.' 292 the Kind: the human race. 293 CCLXXVII Proteus represented the everlasting changes, united with ever-recurrent sameness, of the Sea. CCLXXIX the Royal Saint: Henry VI. 301 CCLXXXVII The single absolutely first-rate Ode (among Odes on the great scale) known to the Editor (for Shelley's Adonais is an Elegy), produced in this century:-and, like Adonais, the poet's greatest achievement. 308 ccxc 1. 5 prease: press. Sidney's poetry is singularly unequal; his short life, his frequent absorption in public employment, hindered doubtless the development of his genius. His great contemporary fame, second only, it appears, to Spenser's, has been hence obscured. At times he is heavy and even prosaic; his simplicity is rude and bare; his verse unmelodious. These, however, are the defects of his merits. In a certain depth and chivalry of feeling, -in the rare and noble quality of disinterestedness (to put it in one word),-he has no superior, hardly perhaps an equal, amongst our Poets; and after or beside Shakespeare's Sonnets, his Astrophel and Stella, in the Editor's judgment, offers the most intense and powerful picture of the passion of love in the whole range of our poetry. 309 ccxc From W. J. Linton's Rare Poems' (1883): a selection containing many pieces which deserve the epithet for their beauty not less than for their unfamiliarity. This gracious lyric appeared in one of the Elizabethan song-books. CCXCII With better taste, and less diffuseness, Quarles might (one would think) have retained more of that high place which he held in popular estimate among his contemporaries. PAGE NO. 310 ссxcп A masterpiece of humour, grace, and gentle feeling, all, with Herrick's unfailing art, kept precisely within the peculiar key which he chose,-or Nature for him,-in his Pastorals. L. 2 the god unshorn: Imberbis Apollo. 311 1. 10 beads: prayers. 312 CCXCIV: see note on LXXV. CCXCV This magnificent song occurs in the long poem which Smart is reported to have written whilst confined as a madman. 313 ccxcvi Burns himself, despite two attempts, failed to improve this little absolute masterpiece of music, tenderness, and simplicity:-this Roinance of a life in eight lines. It has a rival in quality in ccxCIX. - CCXCVII Written in 1773, towards the beginning of Cowper's second attack of melancholy madness-a time when he altogether gave up prayer, saying, ‘For him to implore mercy would only anger God the more.' Yet, had he given it up when sane, it would have been 'major insania.' 314 CCXCVIII Cowper's last original poem, founded upon a story told in Anson's 'Voyages.' It was written March 1799; he died April, 1800. INDEX OF WRITERS WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH ALEXANDER, William (1580-1640) XXII ANON:-IX, XVII, XL, LXXX, LXXXVI, XCI, XCIV, XCVII, CVI, BACON, Francis (1561-1626) LVII BARBAULD, Anna Laetitia (1743-1825) CLXV BLAKE, William (1757-1827) CCXCIX BURNS, Robert (1759-1796) cxxv, CXXXII, CXXXIX, CXLIV, BYRON, George Gordon Noel (1788-1824) CLXIX, CLXXI, CAMPBELL, Thomas (1777-1844) CLXXXI, CLXXXIII, CLXXXVII, 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) cir COWPER, William (1731-1800) CXXIX, CXXXIV, CXLIII, CLX, CLXI, CLXII, CCXCVII, CCXCVIII 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 (18 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 Ꮓ HERRICK, Robert (1591-1674?) LXXXII, LXXXVIII, XCII, XCIII, XCVI, CIX, CX, CCXCIII 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 PHILIPS, Ambrose (1671-1749) CXXI QUARLES, Francis (1592-1644) CCXCIV 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 -1726) CLXIII SEWELL, George SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) CLXXII, CLXXVI, CLXXXIV, SHIRLEY, James (1596-1666) LXVIII, LXIX SIDNEY, Philip (1554-1586) XXIV, CCXC SMART, Christopher (1722-1770) ccxcv SOUTHEY, Robert (1774-1843) CCXVI, CCXXVIII SPENSER, Edmund (1553–1598-9) LIII |