Routledge anthology of poets on poets poetic responses to english poetry from chaucer to yeats

THE ROUTLEDGE ANTHOLOGY OF POETS ON POETS THE ROUTLEDGE ANTHOLOGY OF POETS ON POETS Poetic responses to English poetry from Chaucer to Yeats Selected, arranged, edited, annotated, and introduced by DAVID HOPKINS London and New York First published in hardback as English Poetry by Routledge 1990 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005 To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk Paperback edition first published 1994 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1990, 1994 David Hopkins All right reserved No part of the this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 0-203-36011-7 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-37267-0 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-11847-6 (Print Edition) CONTENTS Acknowledgements Preface Introduction vii ix PART ONE: ON POETRY English poets’ reflections on the art of poetry 19 PART TWO: ON POETS English poets’ responses to their peers, from Chaucer to Yeats 69 Poets of the 14th and 15th centuries Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343–1400 The ballads The early Tudor poets Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42) Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (?1517–47) Edmund Spenser (c.1552–99) Sir Philip Sidney (1554–86) Sir Philip Sidney (1554–86) and Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621) George Chapman (?1559–1634) Edward Fairfax (d 1635) Christopher Marlowe (1564–93) William Shakespeare (1564–1616) The ‘metaphysical’ poets John Donne (1572–1631) Ben Jonson (1572–1637) George Sandys (1578–1644) George Herbert (1593–1633) Edmund Waller (1606–87) Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–66) John Milton (1608–74) Richard Crashaw (?1612–49) Samuel Butler (1612–80) 71 72 83 84 84 85 86 93 95 96 98 98 100 116 118 124 133 135 136 138 139 156 157 Sir John Denham (1615–69) Abraham Cowley (1618–67) Richard Lovelace (1618–57) Poets of the later 17th and early 18th centuries John Dryden (1631–1700) Thomas Shadwell (?1642–92) John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–80) John Oldham (1653–83) Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720) Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Thomas Parnell (1679–1718) Edward Young (1683–1765) Alexander Pope (1688–1744) John Dyer (1699–1757) James Thomson (1700–48) Poets of the mid-18th century Samuel Johnson (1709–84) William Shenstone (1714–63) Thomas Gray (1716–71) Mark Akenside (1721–70) William Collins (1721–59) Christopher Smart (1722–71) Thomas Warton (1728–90) William Cowper (1731–1800) Charles Churchill (1732–64) Thomas Chatterton (1752–70) George Crabbe (1754–1832) William Blake (1757–1827) The Regency and ‘Lake’ poets William Wordsworth (1770–1850) Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1832) Robert Southey (1774–1843) James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 158 158 164 165 168 175 176 177 178 178 179 179 181 190 190 193 193 194 194 197 197 198 199 199 202 203 204 207 209 211 227 228 230 231 vi The post-Wordsworth generation George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) John Clare (1793–1864) John Keats (1795–1821) Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) Robert Browning (1812–89) Emily Brontë (1818–48) Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–61) CONTENTS 232 233 238 244 247 252 254 257 258 George Meredith (1828–1909) William Morris (1834–96) Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) Robert Bridges (1844–1930) Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) Indexes 258 259 260 261 262 262 263 267 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks are due to the following for permission to reproduce material in this book: Baylor University for Browning’s epigram on Swinburne from Robert Secor, ‘Swinburne at his lyre; a new epigram by Browning’, Studies in Browning and His Circle, (1974) 2, 2, pp 58–60; Collins Publishers for Edmund Blunden’s The Death Mask of John Clare’ from Poems of Many Years (1957); the executors and estate of C.Day Lewis and The Hogarth Press and Jonathan Cape for C.Day Lewis’s ‘Birthday Poem for Thomas Hardy’ from Complete Poems (1954); Faber & Faber Ltd for W.H.Auden’s ‘New Year Letter’ from Collected Poems and ‘In Memory of W.B.Yeats’ from The English Auden, for quotations from T.S.Eliot’s The Metaphysical Poets’ in Selected Essays and from Ted Hughes’s Poetry in the Making and his ‘Note’ in A Choice of Shakespeare’s Verse; London Magazine for the interview between Philip Larkin and John Haffenden from London Magazine (1980) n.s 20; Longman for Roger Lonsdale’s text of William Collins’s ‘Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands’ from the Longman Annotated English Poets series; Macmillan Publishing Company, New York for Thomas Hardy’s ‘A Singer Asleep (Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837–1909)’ and ‘George Meredith (1828–1909)’—both from The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy, edited by James Gibson (New York, Macmillan, 1978)—for W.B.Yeats’s The Symbolism of Poetry’, ‘The Philosophy of Shelley’s Poetry’, ‘The Tragic Theatre’, ‘Edmund Spenser’, ‘William Blake and the Imagination’, and The Happiest of Poets’—all from W.B.Yeats, Essays and Introductions (New York, Macmillan, 1961) and Autobiography (New York, Macmillan, 1970); Professor Eric Robinson and Curtis Brown for John Clare’s ‘Shadows of Taste’ and ‘Lines on Cowper’ from John Clare (Oxford Authors) and his ‘To the Rural Muse’ from The Later Poems of John Clare (Oxford English Texts) and ‘To the Memory of Keats’ from The Early Poems of John Clare (Oxford English Texts); Stanley Thornes (Publishers) Ltd for Ted Hughes’s Introduction to Here Today PREFACE This volume contains a collection of poetic responses by the English poets to one another’s work It does not attempt to represent the full range of remarks which English poets have made about their fellow practitioners, but, rather, concentrates on those moments when, in reflecting on their art in general, on their own work, or on the work of one or more of their peers, they have been prompted to exhibit some features of the very activity which they are describing or commending The majority of the items included are full-dress poems, or extracts from larger poems, but I have included poets’ prose comments in those instances where the writing seems, in whole or in part, to be ‘aspiring to the condition of poetry’—where the writer is deploying rhythmical and metaphorical effects, verbal colouring, heightened diction, or impassioned rhetoric to a degree that one would not normally expect to find in discursive prose In the Introduction, I attempt to suggest the particular interest of poets’ specifically poetic responses to their art and to their fellow artists Any anthologist (particularly one faced with a body of material as large as that potentially eligible for the present volume) must establish clear and reasoned principles of selection if the end-product is to seem a coherent book, rather than merely an arbitrarily assembled collection of snippets But an anthologist must also recognise that, however unified he can make his collection, however much each of his extracts is freshly illuminated by the new environment in which it finds itself, an anthology can never be more than a provisional holding-together of a selective body of material, each item of which is temporarily ‘on loan’ from a number of other contexts in which it has slightly different kinds of significance Many items in this anthology are excerpted from larger works—the most immediate and important of all the contexts in which they live Beyond that, they form parts of their authors’ total oeuvres But they are also parts of other larger wholes The English poets’ responses to one another’s work can be only very partially represented by collecting their explicit statements To gain a complete sense of what the English poets meant to one another, one would have to take stock of the numerous and diverse ways in which the work of one poet is present in others’ work: in translation, adaptation, imitation, parody, allusion, echo—modes which often reveal poets’ reactions to their peers more fully and intimately than their explicit comments English poets have, moreover, been sometimes more deeply inspired and influenced by foreign poets than by their own compatriots And the work of some poets shows that they were deeply affected by peers on whom they left either little or no direct commentary, or commentary which gives a very misleading or imperfect sense of the nature of their interest A THOMAS HARDY (1840–1928) 261 —His singing-mistress verily was no other Than she the Lesbian,4 she the music-mother Of all the tribe that feel in melodies; Who leapt, love-anguished, from the Leucadian steep Into the rambling world-encircling deep Which hides her where none sees ((wr 1910; pub 1914) Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), from ‘A Singer Asleep (Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837–1909)’) see 123 n.4 and 381 n.2 uproar driving spray Sappho, Greek poetess (b c.612 BC) who lived on the island of Lesbos; Sappho is fabled to have thrown herself into the sea because her love for Phaon the boatman was unrequited Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) 383 Birthday Poem for Thomas Hardy Is it birthday weather1 for you, dear soul? Is it fine your way, With tall moon-daisies2 alight, and the mole Busy, and elegant hares at play By meadow paths where once you would stroll In the flush of day? I fancy the beasts and flowers there beguiled By a visitation That casts no shadow, a friend whose mild Inquisitive glance lights with compassion, Beyond the tomb, on all of this wild And humbled creation It’s hard to believe a spirit could die Of such generous glow; Or to doubt that somewhere a bird-sharp eye Still broods on the capers of men below, A stern voice asks the Immortals why They should plague us so.3 Dear poet, wherever you are, I greet you Much irony, wrong, Innocence you’d find here to tease or entreat you, And many the fate-fires have tempered strong, But none that in ripeness of soul could meet you Or magic of song Great brow, frail frame—gone Yet you abide In the shadow and sheen, All the mellowing traits of a countryside That nursed your tragi-comical scene; And in us, warmer-hearted and brisker-eyed Since you have been ((1948) Cecil Day Lewis (1904–72)4) 262 ON POETS Hardy was born on June 1840 ox-eyed daisies an allusion to Hardy’s references to the malign deities of ancient Greece (e.g in the last paragraph of Tess of the d’urbervilles [1891]) one of the ‘left-wing’ poets of the 1930s (his later work was less political); translated Virgil and Vatéry; became Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1951 and Poet Laureate in 1968; Day Lewis was buried at Stinsford, Dorset, next to the resting-place of Hardy’s heart Robert Bridges (1844–1930) 384 Bridges’s delicacy There is poetry that is like the white light of noon, and poetry that has the heaviness of woods, and poetry that has the golden light of dawn or of sunset; and I find in the poetry of Mr Bridges1 in the plays,2 but still more in the lyrics, the pale colours, the delicate silence, the low murmurs of cloudy country days, when the plough is in the earth, and the clouds darkening towards sunset; and had I the gift of praising, I would praise it as I would praise these things ((1914) William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), from ‘Reveries over Childhood and Youth’) see 377 n.4 Bridges wrote eight verse-plays between 1885 and 1894 Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) 385 Hopkins’s flagging inspiration The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame,1 Breathes once and, quenchèd faster than it came, Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song Nine months she then, years, nine years2 she long Within her wears, bears, cares and combs3 the same; The widow of an insight lost4 she lives, with aim Now known and hand at work now never wrong Sweet fire the sire of Muse, my soul needs this; I want5 the one rapture of an inspiration O then if in my lagging lines you miss The roll, the rise, the carol, the creation, My winter world, that scarcely breathes that bliss Now, yields you, with some sighs, our explanation ((wr 1889; pub 1918) Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89), ‘To R.B.’6) a flame blown by a glassblower which (as Hopkins himself put it) ‘darts out into a jet taper as a lance head and as piercing too’ In his Ars Poetica, Horace had suggested that a poem WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865–1939) 263 should be kept for nine years before publication; Hopkins’s poems were, indeed, left in rough copy for months, sometimes years as a mother grooms her child’s hair the original spark of inspiration (the poem’s ‘father’) is lost, but mind (its ‘mother’) knows that it is her task to bring it into the world lack Robert Bridges (see 377 n.4); Hopkins wrote this poem to his lifelong friend when depressed and burdened with his teaching and administrative duties at University College, Dublin, where he was Professor of Greek William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) 386 Yeats’s naked style I made my song a coat1 Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies2 From heel to throat; But the fools3 caught it, Wore it in the world’s eyes As though they’d wrought it Song, let them take it, For there’s more enterprise In walking naked.4 ((wr 1912; pub 1914) William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), ‘A Coat’ in Responsibilities) I made a coat for my song much of Yeats’s early work treated subjects from Irish myth and folklore Dublin hack poets who imitated Yeats’s early ‘Celtic’ manner ‘Yeats’s later style was altogether sparer and less consciously ‘literary’ than the idiom of his earlier poetry 387 The aged Yeats and his themes I I sought a theme and sought for it in vain, I sought it daily for six weeks or so Maybe at last, being but a broken man, I must be satisfied with my heart, although Winter and summer till old age began My circus animals were all on show, Those stilted boys,1 that burnished chariot,2 Lion and woman3 and the Lord knows what II What can I but enumerate old themes? First that sea-rider Oisin4 led by the nose Through three enchanted islands, allegorical dreams, Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose, Themes of the embittered heart, or so it seems, That might adorn old songs or courtly shows; But what cared I that set him on to ride, I, starved for the bosom of his faery bride?5 264 ON POETS And then a counter-truth filled out its play, The Countess Cathleen6 was the name I gave it; She,7 pity-crazed, had given her soul away, But masterful Heaven had intervened to save it I thought my dear8 must her own soul destroy, So did fanaticism and hate enslave it, And this brought forth a dream and soon enough This dream itself had all my thought and love And when the Fool and Blind Man stole the bread Cuchulain fought the ungovernable sea;9 Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said It was the dream itself enchanted me: Character isolated by a deed To engross the present and dominate memory Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of III Those masterful images because complete Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street, Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can, Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut Who keeps the till Now that my ladder’s gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart ((1939) William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), ‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’ in Last Poems) the Celtic characters in Yeats’s early work (see 386 n.2) belonging to the Ulster hero Cuchulain, a character in several of Yeats’s early poems and plays perhaps a reference to the sphynx figure who appears in several of Yeats’s poems the hero of Yeats’s early poem The Wanderings of Oisin (1889); Oisin was carried off to faeryland by Niamh, daughter of the sea god Yeats alludes to his own early love, Maude Gonne, momentarily identifying her with Niamh Yeats’s play, written for Maude Gonne and published in 1892 in Yeats’s play, the Countess Cathleen sells her soul to the demons to relieve a famine among her own people, but is forgiven because of the nobility of her motives Maude Gonne became deeply (fanatically, Yeats thought) involved in Irish politics, and in 1903 married the political activist, John MacBride in Yeats’s play On Baile’s Strand, Cuchulain dies fighting the sea 388 In Memory of W.B.Yeats He disappeared in the dead of winter:1 The brooks were frozen, the air-ports almost deserted, And snow disfigured the public statues; The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day O all the instruments agree The day of his death was a dark cold day WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865–1939) 265 Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.2 But for him it was his last afternoon as himself, An afternoon of nurses and rumours; The provinces of his body revolted, The squares of his mind were empty, Silence invaded the suburbs, The current of his feeling failed: he became his admirers.3 Now he is scattered among a hundred cities And wholly given over to unfamiliar affections; To find his happiness in another kind of wood And be punished under a foreign code of conscience The words of a dead man Are modified in the guts of the living But in the importance and noise of to-morrow When the brokers are roaring like beasts on the floor of the Bourse,4 And the poor have the sufferings to which they are fairly accustomed, And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom; A few thousand will think of this day As one thinks of a day when one did something slightly unusual O all the instruments agree The day of his death was a dark cold day You were silly like us:5 your gift survived it all; The parish of rich women, physical decay, Yourself; mad Ireland hurt you into poetry Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives In the valley of its saying where executives Would never want to tamper; it flows south From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs, Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives, A way of happening, a mouth Earth, receive an honoured guest; William Yeats is laid to rest: Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry 266 ON POETS Time that is intolerant Of the brave and innocent, And indifferent in a week To a beautiful physique, Worships language and forgives Everyone by whom it lives; Pardons cowardice, conceit, Lays its honours at their feet Time that with this strange excuse Pardoned Kipling and his views,6 And will pardon Paul Claudel,7 Pardons him for writing well In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate;8 Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise ((1939) Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–73)) Yeats died on 28 January 1939 because they survived him because his works—all that now remain of him—have a powerful effect on those who read them the Paris Stock Exchange in his article The Public v the Late Mr William Butler Yeats’ (1939), Auden has the Public Prosecutor list among Yeats’s ‘sillinesses’ his eccentric editing of The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, his sentimentality about the Irish peasantry, his snobbish frequenting of rich people’s (particularly rich ladies’) houses, his youthful belief in fairies, and his elderly addiction to obscurantist spiritualist ‘mumbo-jumbo’ the poet and story-writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) had been criticised for his jingoistic, pro-imperialist views the French poet and dramatist Paul Claudel (1868–1955), a fervent Catholic, held extreme right-wing political views; Yeats had himself often seemed to support authoritarian and antidemocratic political positions Auden’s poem was written on the eve of the Second World War INDEXES All references are to item numbers Index 1: Poets Poets who are the subject of poems or extracts in the anthology Akenside, Mark: Johnson on 283 Arnold, Matthew: Lang on 369 ballads: Sidney on 94 Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John: Jonson on 125; Rochester on 239 Blackmore, Sir Richard: Pope on 245 Blake, William: Auden on 303; Blake on 298; Hopkins on 325; D.G.Rossetti on 299; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 300; Yeats on 301, 302 Bridges, Robert: Yeats on 384 Brontë, Emily: Bridges on 377 Browning, Robert: R.Browning on 372; Landor on 373; Lang on 369; Swinburne on 376; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 374, 375 Bryan, Sir Francis: Drayton on 95 Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of: Rochester on 252 Butler, Samuel: Byron on 220; Harte on 219; Soames and Dryden on 177 Byron, George Gordon, Lord: Arnold on 324, 343, 344; E.B.Browning on 363; Byron on 336, 337; Clare on 341; Hogg on 339; Hunt on 304; Keats on 342; Lang on 345; Rogers on 338; Shelley on 340; Terrot on 296 Campbell, Thomas: Byron on 305; Hunt on 304 Carew, Thomas: Lord Herbert of Cherbury on 164; Pope on 231 Chapman, George: Drayton on 117; Jonson on 118; Keats on 119 Chatterton, Thomas: S.T.Coleridge on 291; Keats on 292 Chaucer, Geoffrey: Akenside on 88; Blake on 89; Chaucer on 78, 79; H.Coleridge on 93; S.T.Coleridge on 92; Daniel on 84; Drayton on 85; Dryden on 86, 87; Hoccleve on 80; Jonson on 125; Landor on 287, 359, 373; Lydgate on 81; Milton on 13; Skelton on 77, 82; Spenser on 83; Surrey on 96; Thomson on 104; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 374; Wordsworth on 90, 91 Churchill, Charles: Cowper on 290 Clare, John: Blunden on 357; Clare on 356 Clough, Arthur Hugh: Arnold on 378 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Byron on 314, 329; Hunt on 304; Keats on 153; Shelley on 330, 331; Wordsworth on 328 Collins, William: Wordsworth on 284 Congreve, William: Pope on 260 Cowley, Abraham: Addison on 225; Cowley on 222; Cowper on 228; Denham on 223; Johnson on 227; Landor on 229; Pope on 30, 226; Sprat on 224 Cowper, William: A.Brontë on 289; Clare on 288; Landor on 287 Crabbe, George: Byron on 295, 305; Crabbe on 293, 294; Hunt on 304; Praed on 297; Terrot on 296 Crashaw, Richard: Cowley on 218 Davies, Sir John: S.T.Coleridge on 52 Denham, Sir John: Denham on 221; Pope on 26 Donne, John: Carew on 165; Clare on 64; H.Coleridge on 168; S.T.Coleridge on 167; Corbet on 163; Godolphin on 166; Harte on 246; Lord Herbert of Cherbury on 164; Jonson on 160, 161, 162 Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of: Rochester on 252 Dryden, John: Anon (1700) on 243; Byron on 235, 315, 327; Dryden on 237, 238, 253; Gray on 248; Harte on 246; Hughes on 242; Johnson on 247; Landor on 249; Lansdowne on 241; Lee on 240; Lloyd on 37; Marvell on 268 INDEXES 190; Pope on 232, 244, 245, 259, 260; Rochester on 239; Wilson on 250 Duck, Stephen: Crabbe on 293 Dyer, John: Wordsworth on 272 eighteenth-century poets, mid-: Blake on 276 Fairfax, Edward: Collins on 120 Fanshawe, Sir Richard: Denham on 188 Flecknoe, Richard: Dryden on 251 fourteenth- and fifteenth-century poets: Skelton on 77 Garth, Sir Samuel: Pope on 260 Godolphin, Sidney: Rochester on 252 Gower, John: Skelton on 77 Gray, Thomas: Gray on 279; Johnson on 280; Mason on 281; Warton on 282 Hardy, Thomas: Lewis on 383 Herbert, George: Crashaw on 184; Dryden on 251; Harvey on 183 Hobbes, Thomas: Pitt on 265 Hood, Thomas: Hunt on 335 Hopkins, Gerard Manley: Hopkins on 385 Hunt, James Henry Leigh: Keats on 334 Johnson, Samuel: Cowper on 277 Jonson, Ben: Carew on 171; Cartwright on 175; Cowley on 222; Dryden on 176; Godolphin on 174; Herrick on 170; Johnson on 179; Jonson on 169; Milton on 12; Oldham on 178; Rochester on 239; Soames and Dryden on 177; Suckling on 173; Swinburne on 180; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 374; Waller on 172 Keats, John: E.B.Browning on 363; Clare on 361; Hood on 66, 362; Hunt on 335; Keats on 319, 358; Landor on 359; C.Rossetti on 365; D.G.Rossetti on 364; Shelley on 360; Yeats on 366 Kipling, Rudyard: Auden on 388 Kyd, Thomas: Jonson on 125 Landor, Walter Savage: Hunt on 335 Lansdowne, George Granville, Lord: Pope on 260 Lovelace, Richard: Marvell on 230 Lydgate, John: Skelton on 77 Lyly, John: Drayton on 115; Jonson on 125 Marlowe, Christopher: Drayton on 121; Hall on 122; Jonson on 125; Swinburne on 123; Yeats on 112 Meredith, George: Hardy on 379 ‘metaphysical’ poets: Johnson on 159; Pope on 158 Milton, John: Addison on 193, 194, 195; Arnold on 217; Byron on 212, 327; Clare on 215; S.T.Coleridge on 148, 209, 210, 211; Collins on 204; Cowper on 206; Dryden on 191; Gray on 203; Hayley on 207; Johnson on 199, 200, 201, 202; Keats on 334; Landor on 287; Lee on 240; Lloyd on 37; Marvell on 190; Mason on 205; Milton on 189; Pope on 27, 30, 197, 260; Roscommon on 182; helley on 213, 214; Tennyson on 216; Thomson on 198; Watts on 196; Wordsworth on 47, 208, 307 Moore, Thomas: Byron on 305; Hunt on 304 Morris, William: Yeats on 380 Ogilby, John: Pitt on 265 Oldham, John: Dryden on 253; Harte on 246 Otway, Thomas: Pope on 232 Parnell, Thomas: Goldsmith on 256 Pembroke, Mary Herbert, Countess of: Donne on 116 Pope, Alexander: E.B.Browning on 363; Byron on 270, 315, 327; Clare on 64; H.Coleridge on 93; Cowper on 268; Crabbe on 269; Gay on 264; Harte on 31, 266; Johnson on 247, 267; Lang on 271; Parnell on 263; Pitt on 265; Pope on 259, 260, 261; Swift on 262 post-Wordsworth generation: Hunt on 335 Procter, Bryan Walter (‘Barry Cornwall’)’: Hunt on 335 Regency and ‘Lake’ Poets: Byron on 305; Hunt on 304 INDEXES Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of: Rochester on 252 Rogers, Samuel: Byron on 305; Hunt on 304 Sandys, George: Carew on 182; Drayton on 181 Scott, Sir Walter: Byron on 305, 327; Hunt on 304; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 374 Scroope, Sir Car: Rochester on 252 Sedley, Sir Charles: Pope on 231; Rochester on 239, 252 seventeenth-century, later, and eighteenth-century poets: Byron on 235; Cowper on 234; Johnson on 233; Keats on 236; Pope on 231, 232 Shadwell, Thomas: Dryden on 251; Rochester on 252 Shakespeare, William: Akenside on 143; Arnold on 156, 344; H.Coleridge on 155; S.T.Coleridge on 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151; Collins on 144; Cowper on 287; Drayton on 124; Dryden on 128; Gray on 142; Johnson on 32, 34, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141; Jonson on 125, 126, 169; Keats on 65, 153, 154, 358; Landor on 152, 373; Mallet on 132; Milton on 12, 127; Pope on 27, 129, 130, 232, 260; Rochester on 239; Swinburne on 157; Thomson on 131; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 374; Watson on 370; Wordsworth on 45 Shelley, Percy Bysshe: Beddoes on 347; R.Browning on 349, 350; Hood on 66; Hunt on 335; D.G.Rossetti on 351; Shelley on 346; Swinburne on 354, 355; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 352, 353; Wade on 348 Shenstone, William: Mason on 278 Sidney, Sir Philip: Anon (1593) on 114; Drayton on 115; Sidney on 113 Sidney, Sir Philip, and Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Donne on 116 Smart, Christopher: R.Browning on 285 Southey, Robert: Byron on 305, 333; Hunt on 304; Wordsworth on 332 Spenser, Edmund: Barnfield on 101; 269 Browne on 102; S.T.Coleridge on 109; Crabbe on 106; Drayton on 100; Jonson on 125; Keats on 111, 334; Landor on 287, 359; Milton on 103; Pope on 30; Shelley on 60; Southey on 110; Spenser on 98, 99; Thomson on 104; Warton on 105; Wordsworth on 47, 107, 108; Yeats on 112 Sprat, Thomas: Pope on 231 Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of: rayton on 95; Turberville on 97 Swinburne, Algernon Charles: R.Browning on 381; Hardy on 382 Swift, Jonathan: Pope on 260; Swift on 255 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord: Dowson on 371; Lang on 369; Longfellow on 368; Tennyson on 367; Watson on 370 Thomson, James: Collins on 275; Johnson on 274; Mallet on 273 Thurlow, Edward: Hunt on 335 Tudor poets, early: Drayton on 95 Waller, Edmund: Collins on 204; Cotton on 185; Pope on 26, 30, 232; Rochester on 187; Soames and Dryden on 186 Warton, Thomas: Johnson on 286 Winchilsea, Anne Finch, Countess of: Wordsworth on 254 Wordsworth, William: Arnold on 324; E.B.Browning on 323; Byron on 305, 313, 314, 315; H.Coleridge on 321, 322; S.T.Coleridge on 308, 309, 310, 311, 312; Hopkins on 325; Hunt on 304; Keats on 65, 318, 319; Praed on 297; Shelley on 316, 317; Stephen on 326; Terrot on 296; Wordsworth on 90, 108, 306, 307 Wyatt, Sir Thomas: Drayton on 95; Surrey on 96 Wycherley, William: Rochester on 252 Yeats, William Butler: Auden on 388; Yeats on 386, 387 Young, Edward: Johnson on 258; Swift on 257 270 INDEXES Index 2: Authors of poems and extracts Addison, Joseph: on Cowley 225; on Milton 193, 194, 195 Akenside, Mark 36; on Chaucer 88; on Shakespeare 143 Anon (1593): on Spenser 114 Anon (1700): on Dryden 243 Arnold, Matthew: 70, 71, 72; on Byron 343, 344; on Clough 378; on Milton 217; on Shakespeare 156; on Wordsworth 324 Auden, Wystan Hugh: on Blake 303; on Yeats 388 Barnfield, Richard: on Spenser 101 Beddoes, Thomas Lovell: on Shelley 347 Blake, William: on Blake 298; on Chaucer 89; on poets of the mid-18th century 276 Blunden, Edmund: on Clare 357 Bridges, Robert: on E.Brontë 377 Brontë, Anne: on Cowper 289 Browne, William: on Spenser 102 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: 67, 68; on Keats 363; on Wordsworth 323 Browning, Robert: on R.Browning 372; on Shelley 349, 350; on Smart 285; on Swinburne 381 Byron, George Gordon, Lord: on Butler 220; on Byron 336, 337; on Coleridge 329; on Crabbe 294, 295; on Lake Poets 305; on Milton 212; on Pope and his predecessors 235; on Pope 270; on Scott 327; on Southey 333; on Wordsworth 313, 314, 315 Carew, Thomas: on Donne 165; on Jonson 171; on Sandys l82 Cartwright, William: on Jonson 175 Chaucer, Geoffrey: on Chaucer 78, 79 Clare, John: 64; on Byron 341; on Clare 356; on Cowper 288; on Keats 361; on Milton 215 Coleridge, Hartley: on Chaucer 93; on Donne 168; on Shakespeare 155; on Wordsworth 320, 321, 322 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54; on Chatterton 291; on Donne 167; on Milton 209, 210, 211; on Shakespeare 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151; on Spenser 109; on Wordsworth 308, 309, 310, 311, 312 Collins, William: on Fairfax 120; on Milton 204; on Shakespeare 144; on Thomson 275 Corbet, Richard: on Donne 163 Cotton, Charles: on Waller 185 Cowley, Abraham: 15, 16, 17; on Cowley 222; on Crashaw 218 Cowper, William: on Churchill 290; on Cowley 228; on Johnson 277; on Milton 206; on Pope 268; on Restoration poetry 234 Crabbe, George: on Crabbe 293, 294; on Pope 269; on Spenser 106 Crashaw, Richard: on Herbert 184 Daniel, Samuel: 4, 5, 6; on Chaucer 84 Denham, Sir John: on Cowley 223; on Denham 221; on Fanshawe 188 Donne, John: on Sidney and Mary Herbert 116 Dowson, Ernest: on Tennyson 371 Drayton, Michael: on Chapman 117; on Chaucer 85; on Marlowe 121; on poets of Henry VIII’s reign 95; on Sandys 181; on Shakespeare 124; on Sidney and Lyly 115; on Spenser 100 Dryden, John (see also Soames, Sir William): 18, 19; on Chaucer 86, 87; on Dryden 237, 238; on Jonson 176; on Milton 191; on Oldham 253; on Shadwell 251; on Shakespeare 128 Gay, John: on Pope 264 Godolphin, Sidney: on Donne 166; on Jonson 174 Goldsmith, Oliver: on Parnell 256 Granville, George, Lord Lansdowne: on Dryden 241 Gray, Thomas: on Dryden 248; on Gray 279; on Milton 203; on Shakespeare 142 Hall, Joseph: on Marlowe 122 Hardy, Thomas: on Meredith 379; on INDEXES Swinburne 382 Harte, Walter: 31; on Butler 219; on Dryden 246; on Pope 266 Harvey, Christopher: on Herbert 183 Hayley, William: on Milton 207 Herbert, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury: on Donne 164 Herrick, Robert: on Jonson 170 Hoccleve, Thomas: on Chaucer 80 Hogg, James: on Byron 339 Hood, Thomas: 66; on Keats 66, 362; on Shelley 66 Hopkins, Gerard Manley: on Hopkins 385; on Wordsworth 325 Hughes, Jabez: on Dryden 242 Hunt, James Henry Leigh: on postWordsworthian poets 335; on Regency Poets 304 Johnson, Samuel: 32, 33, 34, 35; on Akenside 283; on Cowley 227; on Dryden 247; on Gray 279; on Jonson 179; on ‘metaphysical’ poets 159; on Milton 199, 200, 201, 202; on Pope 247, 267; on post-Restoration tragedy 233; on Shakespeare 32, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141; on Thomson 274; on Warton 286; on Young 258 Jonson, Ben: 9, 10, 11; on Chapman 118; on Donne 160, 161, 162; on Jonson 169; on Shakespeare 125, 126 Keats, John: 65; on Byron 342; on Chapman 119; on Chatterton 292; on the couplet poets 236; on Hunt 334; on Keats 358; on Shakespeare 153, 154; on Spenser 111; on Wordsworth 318, 319 Landor, Walter Savage: on Browning 373; on Cowley 229; on Cowper 287; on Dryden 249; on Keats 359; on Shakespeare 152 Lang, Andrew: on Byron 345; on Pope 271; on Tennyson 369 Lee, Nathaniel: on Dryden 240; on Milton 240 Lewis, Cecil Day: on Hardy 383 Lloyd, Robert: 37 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: on Tennyson 368 Lydgate, John: on Chaucer 81 Mallet, David: on Shakespeare 132, 271 on Thomson 273 Marvell, Andrew: on Lovelace 230; on Milton 190 Mason, William: on Gray 281; on Milton 205; on Shenstone 278 Milton, John: 12, 13, 14; on Milton 189; on Shakespeare 127; on Spenser 103 Oldham, John: on Jonson 178 Parnell, Thomas: 21; on Pope 263 Pitt, Christopher: on Pope 265 Pope, Alexander: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30; on Cowley 226; on Dryden 244, 245; on later 17th- and early 18th-century poets 231, 232; on ‘metaphysical’ poets 158; on Milton 197; on Pope 259, 260, 261; on Shakespeare 129, 130 Praed, Winthrop Mackworth: on Crabbe 297; on Wordsworth 297 Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of: on Beaumont and Fletcher 239; on Dryden 239; on Jonson 239; on Rochester 252; on Sedley 239; on Shakespeare 239; on Waller 187 Rogers, Samuel: on Byron 338 Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of: 20; on Milton 192 Rossetti, Christina: on Keats 365 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel: on Blake 299; on Keats 364; on Shelley 351 Shakespeare, William: 7, Shelley, Percy Bysshe: 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63; on Byron 340; on Coleridge 330, 331; on Keats 360; on Milton 213, 214; on Shelley 346; on Wordsworth 316, 317 Sidney, Sir Philip: 2, 3; on the ballads 94; on Sidney 113 Skelton, John: on Chaucer 82; on medieval poets 77 Soames, Sir William and Dryden, John: on Jonson 177; on Waller 186 Southey, Robert: on Spenser 110 Spenser, Edmund: 1; on Chaucer 83; on Spenser 98, 99 Sprat, Thomas: on Cowley 224 Stephen, James Kenneth: on Wordsworth 326 272 INDEXES Suckling, Sir John: on Jonson 173 Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of: on Wyatt 96 Swift, Jonathan: on Pope 262; on Swift 255; on Young 257 Swinburne, Algernon Charles: on Browning 375; on Jonson 180; on Marlowe 123; on Shakespeare 157; on Shelley 354, 355 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord: 69; on Milton 216; on Tennyson 367 Terrot, Charles Hughes: on Crabbe 296 Thomson, James: on Chaucer 104; on Milton 198; on Shakespeare 131; on Spenser 104 Thomson, James (‘B.V.’): 73; on Blake 300; on Browning 374, 375; on Shelley 352, 353 Turberville, George: on Surrey 97 Wade, Thomas: on Shelley 348 Waller, Edmund: on Jonson 172 Warton, Thomas: on Gray 282; on Spenser 105 Watson, Sir William: on Tennyson 370 Watts, Isaac: on Milton 196 Wilson, John (‘Christopher North’) 55; on Dryden 250 Wordsworth, William 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48; on Chaucer 90, 91; on Coleridge 328; on Collins 284; on Dyer 272; on Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea 254; on Milton 208; on Southey 332; on Spenser 107, 108; on Wordsworth 306, 307 Yeats, William Butler: 74, 75, 76; on Blake 301, 302; on Bridges 384; on Keats 366; on Morris 380; on Spenser 112; on Yeats 386, 387 Young, Edward: 22 Index 3: General topics acrostics: Cowley on 17; Dryden on 251 adventurousness of poets: Browning on 350; Gray on 203; Hayley on 207; Hogg on 339; Johnson on 199, 200, 267; Keats on 319; Landor on 373; Marvell on 190; Milton on 189; Shelley on 340, 346; Thomson on 198 alexandrine: Pope on 26 aloofness of poet: S.T.Coleridge on 147 blank verse: Addison on 193; Johnson on 258; Lloyd on 37; Marvell on 190; Roscommon on 192; Watts on 196 burlesque: Harte on 219 civilisation, poetry and: Dryden on 18; Pope on 25, 30 comedy: Carew on 171; Cartwright on 175; Dryden on 176; Johnson on 179; Oldham on 178; Soames and Dryden on 177; Waller on 172 comprehensiveness of poet’s soul: H Coleridge on 155; Dryden on 87, 128; Wordsworth on 38 conceits: Carew on 165; H.Coleridge on 168; Cowley on 17; Johnson on 159; Landor on 229; Pope on 158 consolation, poetry as: Arnold on 324; H.Coleridge on 320; S.T.Coleridge on 308, 310; Jonson on 10; Shelley on 316; Warton on 282; Wordsworth on 108, 307 correctness: Pope on 232; Soames and Dryden on 186 couplets, heroic: Clare on 64; Denham on 221; Dryden on 253; Gray on 248; Keats on 236; Lloyd on 37; Pope on 232; Wilson on 250 creator, poet as: Akenside on 36; Anon (1700) on 243; Beddoes on 347; E.B Browning on 67; Byron on 336; Cowley on 15, 16; Denham on 223; Johnson on 32, 133, 199; Pope on 27, 29; Shakespeare on 7; Shelley on 57, 62, 63, 317, 340; Sidney on 2; Thomson on 198; Wordsworth on 38 demands of poetic calling: Arnold on 71; INDEXES 273 Cowley on 222; Hopkins on 385; Johnson on 33, 179; Jonson on 11, 125; Pope on 24; Roscommon on 20 diction, poetic: Anon (1700) on 243; Browning on 350; Carew on 165; H.Coleridge on 93, 168; Pope on 26, 28; Soames and Dryden on 186 didacticism: Keats on 318; Shelley on 60 divine nature of poetry: Beddoes on 347; E.B.Browning on 67, 68; Clare on 361; Cowley on 16; Cowper on 206; Daniel on 5, 6; Lord Herbert of Cherbury on 164; Jonson on 9; Lang on 369; Milton on 14; Pope on 25, 232; Shelley on 59, 62, 330; Sprat on 224; Swinburne on 180; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 73, 352, 353; Wade on 348; Waller on 172 H.Coleridge on 93; Hood on 66; Johnson on 134; Jonson on 169; Lang on 345; Lansdowne on 241; Marvell on 230; Pope on 245; Wordsworth on 45 fire, poetical: Beddoes on 347; Gray on 248; Johnson on 247; Pope on 27; Shelley on 63 fusing power of poet: Arnold on 324; S.T.Coleridge on 52, 310; Cowley on 17; Hughes on 242; Johnson on 136, 140, 247; Shelley on 60, 62, 317; Waller on l72 future, poetry and the: R, Browning on 350; S.T.Coleridge on 308; Shelley on 61, 62, 63, 346; Wordsworth on 307; Yeats on 302 egotism of poet: Carew on 171; S.T Coleridge on 211; Keats on 65, 318; Shelley on 317 empathy, poet’s power of: R.Browning on 372; S.T.Coleridge on 92, 311 (iv); Gray on 142; Johnson on 135, 159; Keats on 65; Roscommon on 20; Shelley on 60, 62 enchanter, poet as: Sidney on 3; Wilson on 55 English language, poetry and the: Akenside on 88; Anon (1700) on 243; Carew on 165; Chaucer on 79; H Coleridge on 93; Daniel on 5; Drayton on 85, 115, 181; Dryden on 18; Jonson on 118; Lord Herbert of Cherbury on 164; Pitt on 265; Skelton on 77; Spenser on 83; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 353; Turberville on 97 envy provoked by poets: R.Browning on 349; Clare on 361; Harte on 266; Jonson on 169; Keats on 292; Landor on 359; Lang on 271; Marvell on 230; Milton on 189 (ii); Pitt on 265; Pope on 245; D.G Rossetti on 364; Shelley on 340; Thomson on 273; Wordsworth on 46 epic: Addison on 193; Arnold on 217; Marvell on 190; Milton on 189; Pitt on 265; Roscommon on 192; Shelley on 214; Spenser on 98, 99 genius, poetic: Arnold on 344; Clare on 341; S.T.Coleridge on 291, 310, 311; Cowley on 17; Johnson on 247, 267, 274; Keats on 292, 319; Wordsworth on 44 fashion, poetry and: Clare on 64; heroic plays: Lansdowne on 241 imagery: S.T.Coleridge on 49, 52, 311 (iii); Johnson on 159, 274, 280, 283; Keats on 358; Wordsworth on 307 imitation: Carew on 165; Cowley on 225; Denham on 223; Dryden on 176; Jonson on 11 (iii), 171; Shelley on 56; Sprat on 224 immortality, poetic: Arnold on 156; Blake on 89; Browne on 102; Byron on 270; Clare on 64, 215, 341; S.T.Coleridge on 308; Cowley on 15, 224; Crabbe on 269; Daniel on 84; Denham on 223; Hardy on 379; Hoccleve on 80; Hood on 66; Johnson on 137, 179; Jonson on 125; Keats on 292; Landor on 249; Marvell on 230; Milton on 127; Pope on 25, 30; C.Rossetti on 365; D.G.Rossetti on 364; Shakespeare on 8; Shelley on 57, 58, 59, 61, 62; Spenser on 1, 83; Wordsworth on 40 inspiration: R.Browning on 285; Cowley on 17; Daniel on 6; Donne on 116; Dryden on 19; Hopkins on 385; Jonson on 11; Marvell on 190; 274 INDEXES Milton on 189; Pope on 23, 129; Shakespeare on 7; Shelley on 62, 346; Sidney on 113; Spenser on 99; Wordsworth on 307 judgement, poetic: Pope on 23 legislator, poet as: Johnson on 33; Shelley on 63 memory and the poet: Mason on 205; Wordsworth on 307 metre: H.Coleridge on 93; S.T Coleridge on 50; Lloyd on 37; Wordsworth on 42; Yeats on 74 mock-heroic: Harte on 31; Parnell on 263 morality, poetry and: Anon (1593) on 114; Arnold on 72; Auden on 388; Byron on 270; S.T.Coleridge on 320; Corbet on 163; Cowper on 268, 277; Crabbe on 269; Goldsmith on 256; Harte on 266; Johnson on 33; Mallet on 273; Milton on 103; Pope on 259, 260, 261; Shelley on 60, 62, 214; Surrey on 96; Swift on 255; Thomson on 104; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 353; Warton on 105, 282; Wilson on 55; Wordsworth on 108, 307 music, poetry and: Anon (1700) on 243; Barnfield on 101; R.Browning on 350; S.T.Coleridge on 53; Cowley on 16; Donne on 116; Dowson on 371; Hardy on 382; Hood on 66, 362; Lewis on 383; Milton on 12, 13, 14; Pope on 244; Shelley on 59; Sidney on 3; Soames and Dryden on 186; Swinburne on 355; Tennyson on 69, 216; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 352, 353 nature, poetry and: Akenside on 36; Arnold on 70, 324, 344; Blake on 89, 276, 298; E.B.Browning on 323; R.Browning on 285, 349, 350; Byron on 295; Clare on 64, 288, 356, 361; H.Coleridge on 320, 321; S.T Coleridge on 52, 146, 308, 311, 312; Collins on 275; Cowley on 16; Dryden on 87, 191; Godolphin on 174; Gray on 142; Hopkins on 325; Johnson on 33, 35, 128, 129, 134, 136, 159, 199, 233, 274; Keats on 236, 319; Landor on 287; Lewis on 383, 384; Mallet on 132; Mason on 278, 281; Oldham on 178; Pope on 23, 27, 29, 158; Shelley on 56, 57, 62, 316, 317, 360; Sidney on 2; Soames and Dryden on 177; Stephen on 326; Swinburne on 354; Terrot on 296; Thomson on 131; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 375; Wade on 348; Waller on 172; Wordsworth on 38, 39, 40, 48, 272, 306, 307; Yeats on 380 ‘negative capability’, poet’s: Keats on 153 obscenity in poetry: Cowley on 17; Cowper on 234; Dryden on 237, 238; Rochester on 239 octosyllabics: Byron on 220; Harte on 219 ode: Byron on 220, 329; S.T.Coleridge on 49; Gray on 248; Johnson on 286; Sprat on 224 organism, poem as: S.T.Coleridge on 50, 51, 54, 146; Johnson on 32; Keats on 358; Pope on 27, 28; Shakespeare on 7; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 73; Wordsworth on 43 panegyric: Cotton on 185; Rochester on 187 passions, poetry and the: H.Coleridge on 155; Crabbe on 106; Godolphin on 166; Johnson on 33, 133, 134, 135, 233; Mallet on 132; Oldham on 178; Parnell on 21; Pope on 129, 244; Shelley on 62; Wordsworth on 38, 42, 45, 307; Yeats on 301 past, poetry as dialogue with: Chaucer on 79; Cowley on 15; Daniel on 4; Dryden on 87; Hoccleve on 80; Shelley on 56 pastoral: Arnold on 378; Crabbe on 293, 294; Spenser on 99; Mason on 278 philosophy, poetry and: S.T.Coleridge on 148; Cowper on 206; Denham on 223; Hoccleve on 80; Johnson on 233; Jonson on 10; Sidney on 2; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 73; Wordsworth on 39, 328; Yeats on 75 pleasure, poetry and: Jonson on 10; Milton on 12; Shelley on 59, 62; Sidney on 3; Thomson (‘B.V.’) on 73; Wordsworth on 39, 42, 307; Yeats on 112 INDEXES pictorial poetry: Collins on 144; Yeats on 112, 380 pindarics: Addison on 225; Gray on 248, 279; Pope on 226; Sprat on 224 prose, poetry and: Wordsworth on 41 public poetry: Auden on 388; Byron on 333; Jonson on 169; Lee on 240; Spenser on 98; Swift on 257; Wordsworth on 208, 332 quibbles: Johnson on 139, Pope on 197 reincarnation, poetic: Denham on 223; Landor on 359; Pitt on 265; Roscommon on 20; Spenser on 83; Sprat on 224 religious poetry: A.Brontë on 289; Carew on 165, 182; Corbet on 163; Cowley on 16, 218; Cowper on 206; Crashaw on 184; Donne on 116; Godolphin on 166; Goldsmith on 256; Harvey on 183; Johnson on 35; Milton on 14, 189; Southey on 110; Wordsworth on 91 Restoration, poetry and the: Cowper on 234; Dryden on 237; Johnson on 233; Pope on 231 rhyme: Byron on 337; Clare on 64; S.T Coleridge on 167; Daniel on 6; Denham on 188; Dryden on 238; Lloyd on 37; Marvell on 190; Pope on 26; Wilson on 250; Wordsworth on 42 rhythm: Wordsworth on 42; Yeats on 74 satire: Cowper on 234, 290; Crabbe on 269; Dryden on 251, 253; Harte on 31, 246, 266; Jonson on 162; Lee on 240; Pope on 259, 260, 261; Swift on 257, 262; Young on 22 science, poetry and: Sidney on 2; Wordsworth on 40 sonnet: Johnson on 286; Sidney on 113; Turberville on 97; Wordsworth on 47 sound and sense: Pope on 26; Thomson 275 (‘B.V.’) on 352, 353 sublime, the: Addison on 195; Byron on 212; S.T.Coleridge on 209; Gray on 203; Johnson on 35, 159, 201; Keats on 65; Lloyd on 37; Marvell on 190; Roscommon on 193; Thomson on 198; Warton on 282; Watts on 196 tragedy: Hall on 122; Johnson on 34, 233; Milton on 13; Yeats on 76 transcendental truths of poetry: Blake on 89; E.B.Browning on 68; Clare on 64; S.T.Coleridge on 52, 310; Cowley on 16; Johnson on 33, 134, 137; Landor on 373; D.G.Rossetti on 351; Shelley on 58, 59, 61, 62, 63; Spenser on 83; Swinburne on 157; Wordsworth on 39, 40, 308 translation: Addison on 225; Carew on 182; Collins on 120; Denham on 188, 223; Donne on 116; Drayton on 181; Dryden on 18; Jonson on 117, 118; Keats on 119; Pitt on 265; Roscommon on 20; Sprat on 224; Swift on 262 transporting power of poetry: S.T Coleridge on 147, 151; Johnson on 141; Keats on 154; Parnell on 21; Pope on 27; Wordsworth on 42; Yeats on 76 vision, poetic: Auden on 303; Blake on 298; E.B.Browning on 323, 363; Keats on 319; Wordsworth on 307; Yeats on 75, 366 wit: Addison on 225; Carew on 165; H.Coleridge on 168; S.T.Coleridge on 150, 167; Cowley on 15, 17; Cowper on 228, 290; Donne on 116; Dryden on 128, 176, 238, 251; Harte on 31; Harvey on 183; Lord Herbert of Cherbury on 164; Herrick on 170; Johnson on 159, 227; Jonson on 11, 160, 169; Landor on 229; 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