history, Romantic period Johnson’s views 126 as literature 122, 123 Mackenzie’s views 125 and poetry 7, 118 popularity 123 reviewing of 125, 127, 128 sentimental novels, inclusion of verse 129–32 treated as poetry 120 Wordsworth’s dislike of 120 See also poetry; prose odes 26–8 Odes to the Pillory 15 O’Donnell, Brennan, on Wordsworth’s views of meter 110 Old Testament, as hallmark of standard English 80 Old Tom of Oxford 15, 29 Ong, Walter J 247, 253 Opie, Amelia xvi, 21, 118, 119 Oracle and Public Advertiser 224 “oral literature” 253