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thought and close reasoning in verse :-as the next is equally characteristic of Shelley's wayward intensity. 240 253 Bonnivard, a Genevese, was imprisoned by the Duke of Savoy in Chillon on the lake of Geneva for his courageous defence of his country against the tyranny with which Piedmont threatened it during the first half of the Seventeenth century.-This noble Sonnet is worthy to stand near Milton's on the Vaudois

massacre.

241 254 Switzerland was usurped by the French under Napoleon in 1800 Venice in 1797 (255).

243 259

This battle was fought Dec. 2, 1800, between the
Austrians under Archduke John and the French
under Moreau, in a forest near Munich.
Linden means High Limetrees.

Hohen

247 262 After the capture of Madrid by Napoleon, Sir J. Moore retreated before Soult and Ney to Corunna, and was killed whilst covering the embarkation of his troops.

258 273

257 272 The Mermaid was the club-house of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other choice spirits of that age. 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 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. 263 277 Wolfe resembled Keats, not only in his early death by consumption and the fluent freshness of his poetical style, but in beauty of character:-brave, tender, energetic, unselfish, modest. Is it fanciful to find some reflex of these qualities in the Burial and Mary? Out of the abundance of the heart. correi: covert on a hillside. Cumber: trouble. This book has not a few poems of greater power and more perfect execution than Agnes and the extract which we have ventured to make from the deephearted author's Sad Thoughts (No. 224). But none are more emphatically marked by the note of exquisiteness.

264 278 265 280

266 281 270 283

st. 3 inch: island.

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Lamb. This tender and original little piece seems
clearly to reveal the work of that noble-minded and
afflicted sister, who was at once the happiness, the
misery, and the life-long blessing of her equally
noble-minded brother.

278 289 This poem has an exaltation and a glory, joined with
an exquisiteness of expression, which place it in the
highest rank among the many masterpieces of its
illustrious Author.

289 300 interlunar swoon: interval of the moon's invisibility.

294 304

295 305

Calpe: Gibraltar.

Lofoden the Maelstrom whirl-
pool off the N.W. coast of Norway.
This lovely poem refers here and there to a ballad by
Hamilton on the subject better treated in 163 and

164.

And

307 315 Arcturi: seemingly used for northern_stars.
wild roses, &c. Our language has perhaps no line
modulated with more subtle sweetness.
308 316 Coleridge describes this poem as the fragment of a
dream-vision,-perhaps, an opium-dream?—which
composed itself in his mind when fallen asleep after
reading a few lines about the Khan Kubla' in
Purchas' Pilgrimage.

312 318 Ceres' daughter: Proserpine. God of Torment:
Pluto.

320 321

321

The leading idea of this beautiful description of a
day's landscape in Italy appears to be-On the 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. 23 Amphitrite was daughter to Ocean.
325 322 1. 21 Maenad: a frenzied Nymph, attendant on
Dionysos in the Greek mythology. May we not call
this the most vivid, sustained, and impassioned
amongst all Shelley's magical personifications of
Nature?

326

327 323

328

1. 5 Plants under water sympathize with the seasons
of the land, and hence with the winds which affect
them.

Written soon after the death, by shipwreck, of
Wordsworth's brother John. This poem may be pro-
fitably 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.'
the Kind: the human race.

331 327 the Royal Saint: Henry VI.

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331 328 st. 4 this folk: its has been here plausibly but, perhaps, unnecessarily, conjectured.-Every one knows the general story of the Italian Renaissance, of the Revival of Letters.-From Petrarch's day to our own, that ancient world has renewed its youth: Poets and artists, students and thinkers, have yielded themselves wholly to its fascination, and deeply penetrated its spirit. Yet perhaps no one more truly has vivified, whilst idealizing, the picture of Greek country life in the fancied Golden Age, than Keats in these lovely (if somewhat unequally executed) stanzas:-his quick imagination, by a kind of 'natural magic,' more than supplying the scholarship which his youth had no opportunity of gaining.

No. 195 This poem, under the title Absence, has been set to an air worthy of its beauty, by Mr. F. H. Crossley (published 1889: Augener, London).

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INDEX OF WRITERS

WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH

Numbers refer to pome

ALEXANDER, William (1580-1640) 29

BARBAULD, Anna Laetitia (1743—1825) 207
BARNEFIELD, Richard (16th Century) 45
BEAUMONT, Francis (1586-1616) 90

BLAKE, William (1757-1827) 174, 180, 181, 208

BURNS, Robert (1759-1796) 161, 168, 176, 184, 188, 189, 190,
191, 193, 196, 197

BYRON, George Gordon Noel (1788-1824) 212, 214, 216, 234,
246, 253, 266, 275

CAMPBELL, Thomas (1777-1844) 225, 231, 241, 250, 251, 259,
295, 304, 310, 314, 332

CAMPION, Thomas (c. 1567-1620) 25, 26, 50, 52, 55, 59, 76, 79,
101, 143

CAREW, Thomas (1589-1639) 112

CAREY, Henry (– -1743) 167

CIBBER, Colley (1671-1757) 155

COLERIDGE, Hartley (1796-1849) 218

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) 211, 316, 329

COLLINS, John (18th Century) 206

COLLINS, William (1720-1756) 153, 160, 178, 186

COWLEY, Abraham (1618-1667) 130, 137

COWPER, William (1731-1800) 165, 170, 183, 200, 202, 203, 204,

205