Index
Accius quoted, 244
Addison, 15: 272: 281
Æschylus, 59; quoted, 62; his descriptions of Nature, 241; his theology, 267: 261: 364
Alcæus, 287
Alcman quoted, 240
Alamanni, 123
Anacreon, 286
Anthology, Greek, 116: 117: 243
Antimachus of Colophon, his Poems, 289
Antipater of Sidon, 116
Apollonius Rhodius, 78; beauty of his descriptions, 242-3
Archilochus quoted, 287
Ariosto quoted, 79; his Orlando, 113
Aristophanes, 242: 260: 280; his censure of Euripides, 265
Aristotle, 63: 67; influence on Spenser, 120-1; style, 122; his doctrine of the καθαρσις, 264-5; his Æsthetics, 265-6; Poetics, 274-6; his Rhetoric, 287
Armstrong, Dr. John, his connection with Thomson, 333
Arnold, Matthew, 63; quoted, 21: 105: 106: 194: 272-3
Athenæus, 293
Ausonius, his Rosæ, 246
Avitus, 251
Bacon, Lord, his Sylva Sylvarum, 114; his Latin style, 122; quoted, 182; on poetry, 279
Barclay, his Argenis, 129
Barnum, the late Mr., on Advertisement, 158
Beaconsfield, Lord, quoted, 219
Benecke, Mr. E. F. M., his Antimachus of Colophon and Position of Women in Greek Poetry reviewed, 283-93
Bentley, Richard, 160
Bernays, Prof., on the καθαρσις of Aristotle, 265
Boileau, 125
Bolingbroke, Lord, 119: 321
Boswell, James, 134
Bowden, Rev. H. Sebastian, his Religion of Shakespeare reviewed, 351-69
Brewer, Rev. Prof., quoted, 361
Brown, Mr. J. T. T., his Authorship of the Kingis Quair reviewed, 172-82
Browne, Sir Thomas, his Hydriotaphia, 102; quoted, 368
Browning, Robert, on the Comparative Study of Ancient and Modern Classical Literature, 64
Browning, Mrs., 297
Burke, Edmund, 71: 100-1: 125: 126
Burns, Robert, 145; Comparison with Catullus, 347
Butcher, Prof. S. H., his Some Aspects of the Greek Genius reviewed, 255-69
Butler, Bishop, quoted, 214
Butler, Mr. Samuel, on Shakespeare's Sonnets, 222-4
Cædmon quoted, 95
Caine, Mr. Hall, 28
Callimachus, 242
Camoens, 350
Campbell, Prof. Lewis, 259
Carew, Thomas, 305
Catullus, his descriptions of Nature, 245: 336-9; quoted, 285; characteristics of his genius, 335; his Attis, 339-40; his pathos, 337-8; his connection with Lesbia, 342-5; parallel between Poems to Lesbia and Shakespeare's Sonnets, 345-6; his versatility, 346; comparison with Burns, 347; Mr. Tremenheere's version of the Love Poems, 347-9
Cawthorn, John, 60
Chaucer, 53: 6: 122-3
Churchill, Charles, quoted, 159
Cicero, influence on English prose, 61; as a critic of rhetoric, 278-9; on immortality, 360
Clarendon, 123
Classics, influence of the Greek and Roman Classics on English Literature, 58-63; exclusion of from Schools of Literature by the English Universities, 45-64; effects of this illustrated, 76-83
Claudian quoted, 246
Colvin, Mr. Sidney, his edition of Stevenson's Letters reviewed, 165-71
Coleridge, S. T., 127: 130: 281
Coleridge, the late Lord, on Greek, 255
Cory, William, 253
Cousin, Victor, his theory of beauty and art, 272
Criticism, reasons of present degraded state of, 13-26; characteristics of current criticism described, 26-30: 270-1; effects on literature generally, 31-4; refusal of the Universities to train critics and men of letters, 38-44; lethargy and indifference of scholars, progressive degradation of literature the certain result, 43-44
Critics, characteristics of popular, 27-31: 93-109: 110-32: 151-7
Crowe, William, 249
Cynewulf, 95
Dante, 49; quoted, 335; his Sonnets and Canzoni, 350
De Quincey, Thomas, characteristics of, 203-4; his comparative failure, 204; Mr. Hogg's recollections of, 203-10
Douglas, Gavin, his translation of Virgil, 96-7
Drayton, Michael, 60
Dryden, his Discourse on Epic Poetry, 65; quoted, 153; on the functions of poetry, 280; his translations, 148
Dubos, the Abbé, 281
Dunbar, William, 176; Mr. Smeaton's Life of, reviewed, 183-92; characteristics of his poetry, 190-1
Dyer, John, his descriptive poetry, 248
Earle, Prof., on relation of Classics to English Literature, 59 (note)
Earle, John, his Microcosmographie, 129
Editors, their relation to current literature, 22; in no way responsible for the present condition of current literature, 23-24
Ennius, 59
Euripides, 82; his fine pictures of Nature, 242; quoted, 262; his Alcestis quoted, 286
Feltham, Owen, his Resolves, 129
Flaccus, Valerius, 246
Fletcher, Phineas, 101
Foote, Samuel, quoted, 205
Fox, John, his Book of Martyrs, 113
Fraunce, Abraham, his Countess of Pembroke's Ivy Church, 309
Froude, James Anthony, on the effect of discouraging the study of the Classics, 65
Garnett, Father, 354
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 102
Gervinus, Prof., quoted, 360
Glanville, Joseph, 104
Gibbon, Edward, 125: 150: 195
Goethe, 49: 86; quoted, 273: 360: 362
Goldsmith quoted, 247
Gosse, Edmund, his Short History of Modern English Literature reviewed 110-32
Gossing, analysis of the accomplishment, 115; compared with Euphuism, id.
Gower, John, 124; Confessio Amantis, 195
Gray, Thomas, on Lydgate, 98
Greene, Robert, 14
Hall, William, Mr. Sidney Lee on, 216
Hampole, Richard of, his Pricke of Conscience, 179
Harrison, Mr. Frederic, 35
Hawes, Stephen, his Pastime of Pleasure, 200
Heraclitus quoted, 361
Hermesianax quoted, 287
Hill, Aaron, 331
Hoccleve, Thomas, 198
Hogg, Mr. James, his Recollections of De Quincey reviewed, 203-10
Homer quoted, his fine descriptions of Nature, 237-9; his women, 286: 288; his description of Hades, 297
Hooker quoted, 362
Horace, influence of his Epistles and Satires on English poetry, 60; quoted, 151: 297: 301; deficient in poetic sensibility, 336
Hroswitha, 251
Huxley, Prof., on Merton Chair at Oxford, 38
Ibycus, 240
Jago, Richard, 249
James I. of Scotland, his Kingis Quair, 172; its genuineness vindicated, 174-82
Japp, Dr. Alexander, Life of De Quincey, 209
Jebb, Prof., his services to Greek Literature, 258
Johnson, Dr., quoted, 152
Jonson, Ben, on Poetry, 280
Jowett, Prof., quoted, 64
Jusserand, M., his Literary History of the English People reviewed, 193-202
Keats, John, 127: 298: 347
Landor, W. S., 298
Lang, Mr. Andrew, 259
Lauderdale, 310
Leaf, Mr. Walter, 259
Lee, Mr. Sidney, his Life of Shakespeare reviewed, 211-8; on Shakespeare's Sonnets, 229-30
Le Gallienne, Mr. Richard, his Retrospective Reviews reviewed, 151-7
Leopardi quoted, 20: 300
Lesbia and Catullus, 335-50
Lessing, on Philologists, 86; his Laocoon, 41; his Hamburgishe Dramaturgie, 67
Log-rolling, its pernicious effects, 133-44
Longinus, the Treatise attributed to, discussed, 276-8; quoted, 270
Lydgate, his style and versification, 98; id., 115; characteristics of his poetry, 198-9
Macaulay, Lord, 141: 155
Mallet, David, claim to authorship of Rule Britannia discussed, 321-4
Malory, Thomas, 201
Mannyng, his Handlying of Synne, 195
Marlowe, Christopher, 14
Martial, his epigrams, 337
Max Müller, Prof., 52
Meleager, his Anthology, 116-7; quoted, 243
Menander quoted, 262
Mimnermus, his love poetry to Nanno, 287
Milton quoted, 41 (note): 62; his apology for Smectymnuus, quoted, 103; on poetry, 267; quoted, 212; music of his verse, 317
Mitford, Rev. J., on the corrections in Thomson's Seasons, 330-4
Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, 125: 306
Morel, M. Léon, his Monograph on Thomson, 319
More, Sir Thomas, his Utopia, 101
More, Henry, 274
Morgan, Sir George Osborne, his Translation of Virgil's Eclogues reviewed, 308-17
Morley, Mr. John, 63; quoted, 64
Myers, Mr. Ernest, 259
Müller, Prof. E., his Geschichte der Theorie der Kunst bei den Alten, 264
Ogilvie, John, 310
Ovid, 60: 177: 178: 246
Pacuvius, his Dulorestes quoted, 244
Palgrave, Francis Turner, his Landscape in Poetry reviewed, 236-49; an appreciation of, 250-4
Pater, Walter, 63: 152: 265: 267
Pecock, Reginald, his Repressor, 128-9
Petrarch, 287: 296
Persius quoted, 158
Phillips, Mr. Stephen, his poems reviewed, 294-300
Pindar quoted, 262; his word pictures, 240
Plato, his Symposium, 78-9; quoted, 263; his theory of poetry, 274: 276
Plutarch, his pictures of women, 290
Pomfret, John, his Choice, 101
Pope quoted, 84; on Philologists, 86; quoted, 138; his Satires and Epistles, 125; his alleged revision of Thomson's Seasons discussed, 328-32
Propertius quoted, 246
Publishers, honourable character of the leading, 23
Quarterly Review, article on From Shakespeare to Pope, 40
Quintilian as a critic, 278
Raffety, Mr. Frank W., his Books worth Reading reviewed, 145-50
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, quoted, 173
Rossetti, William Michael, his edition of Shelley's Adonais, 76-83
Rucellai, his dramas and his L'Api, 124
Sainte-Beuve, his essays, 41; on Philologists, 86; his criticism, 270; the master of Matthew Arnold, 281
Saintsbury, Prof., his Short History of English Literature reviewed, 93-109
Sallust, 61
Schiller, 41
Schick, Dr., on Lydgate's versification, 99
Schipper, Dr. J., on Dunbar, 187
Schmeding, Dr. G., his Monograph on Thomson, 318
School of English Literature at Oxford, its deplorable organization, 45-72; how this may be remedied, 73-5
Scott of Amwell, 249
Scott, Sir Walter, on Dunbar, 186
Self-Advertisement, its organization and effects, 158-64
Seneca, influence on English prose, 61
Sedulius, 251
Shaftesbury, third Earl of, his style, 117-9
Shakespeare, 62: 81-2; Clarendon Press edition of his Hamlet, 84-92; quoted, 154: 158; Mr. Lee's Life of, 211-8; scantiness of traditions of, 213; his sonnets, various theories, 219-20; about difficulties of supposing them autobiographical, 225-6; his relations with Southampton and Pembroke, 228-34; story in the Sonnets probably fictitious, 235; religion of Shakespeare, 351-69; his politics, 352-3; not a Roman Catholic, 352-6; on death, 357-8; silence about a future life, 359, and about metaphysical questions, 360; comparison in this respect with Aristotle, 360; his theology, 362-4; on prayer, 365; on conscience, 366; his attitude to Christianity, 366; when his ethics are Christian, 368; his religious ideas summed up, 368-9
Sharp, Archbishop, quoted, 218
Shelley, his Adonais, 76-83; absurd criticism of his style, 126
Shenstone, William, 249
Sidney, Sir Philip, 131
Simpson, Richard, 351: 368
Smart, Christopher, his Song to David, 340
Smeaton, Mr. Oliphant, his life of Dunbar reviewed, 183-92
Sophocles, 242; his ethics, 267-9; quoted, 285; his ideal man, 366
Spenser, Edmund, 112: 113; influence of Greek and Latin Classics on, 120-1; influence of, on Milton, 121; on the functions of poetry, 280
Stanihurst, Richard, 308
Stephen, Mr. Leslie, 35
Stesichorus, his Calyce, 287
Stevenson, R. L., Letters reviewed, 165-71
Strabo quoted, 287
Swift, Jonathan, his Sentiments of a Church of England Man, 113; Tale of a Tub, 149
Tacitus quoted, 20: 192: 254; as a critic, 278-9; on immortality, 360
Talleyrand quoted, 210
Tennyson, Lord, 62: 162-3: 245: 247: 298: 337; as a critic, 252
Terence, women of, 292
Text-Books on English Literature, specimens of, 76-150
Thackeray on Wordsworth and Moore, 250
Theocritus, 243
Theognis quoted, 262
Thomson, James, 243; quoted, 248; claim to the authorship of Rule Britannia vindicated, 321-8; corrections in the Seasons discussed, 328-34
Thorpe, Thomas, 216: 227: 235
Tovey, Rev. D. C., his edition of Thomson's poems reviewed, 318-34
Tremenheere, Mr. J. H. A., his version of Catullus' Love Poems, 335-50
Trissino, his Sofonisba, 123
Thucydides, 258: 260; on hope, 262
Tupper, Martin, 251
Tyler, Mr. Thomas, on Shakespeare's Sonnets, 228
Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 223: 234
Universities, their indifference to the interests of literature, 38-40: 45-50; effects of the exclusion of the Greek and Roman Classics from the so-called Schools of Literature at Oxford and Cambridge, 55-71
Varro, as a critic, 278
Virgil, his beautiful descriptions of Nature, 245-6; his Eclogues, 308-17
Voltaire on Philologists, 86
Walters, Cuming, on Shakespeare's Sonnets, 220-1
Warburton, Bishop, 205; quoted, 270
Warton, Dr. Joseph, on Thomson's poetry, 330
Warton, Thomas, on Lydgate, 98
Watson, Mr. William, great beauty of his English hexameters, 317
Wharton, Dr., his Sappho, 152
Willmott, Rev. Aris, his Gems from English Literature, 163-4
Willoughby, his Avisa, 101: 225
Wordsworth, William, 153; on Dyer's poetry, 248; his poems on classical legends, 298
Worsfold, Mr. Basil, his Principles of Criticism reviewed, 270-82
Wrangham, Archdeacon, 310
Wright, Dr. Aldis, his edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet, 84-92
Wright, Mr. W. H. Kearley, his West Country Poets reviewed, 301-7
Wyntown, his Chronicle, 180-1
Xenophon on women, 290
Young, Edward, quoted, 87
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