TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Page 258 is blank in the original.
The initials A.D. are unspaced in the original. The initials B. C. have been changed to B.C. to match.
The following spelling variations occur in the text. The names appear as in the original.
| Abu l'Atahiya | Abu l' Atihiya | |
| Aeneid | Æneid | |
| Aelfric | Ælfric | |
| Chekhov | Tchekov | |
| Jehudah HaLevi | Jehudah Ha Levi | |
| Mac Guckin de Slane | MacGuckin de Slane | McGuckin de Slane |
The following corrections have been made to the text:
Page 19: the assumption that all the intellectual[original has intellecual]
Page 29: "[quotation mark missing in original]All kinds of ecstasy, however differently
Page 40: literature of power in his opinion[original has opinon] is permanent
Page 43: restated by the Italian critic Castelvetro[original has Castelevetro]
Page 57: Balzac's novel Père[original has Pére] Goriot
Page 65: one in prose of Eloise's[original has Eloises's]
Page 88: under the title Poetry and Its Varieties[original has Varities]
Page 95: sown with stars, wherever[original has where-ever hyphenated across lines]
Page 97: pre-Socratic philosophers[original has philsophers] like Parmenides
Page 108: article on Irish Literature in the Britannica[original has Brittanica]
Page 109: says Gosse in his article in the Britannica[original has Brittanica]
Page 120: in this care, have time for better things."[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 122: New Study of English Poetry by Henry Newbolt[original has Newboldt]
Page 130: he is more advanced than[original has that] we are
Page 136: others were also absorbed as[original has a] to the difference
Page 138: preface to his Mademoiselle[original has Madamoiselle] de Maupin
Page 146: former is not wholly intuitive[original has intuitve]
Page 168: Shelley, Nietzsche[original has Nietsche], and Butler
Page 178: in the sense of recording his own individuality[original has individualty]
Page 185: See his essay on Casanova[original has Cananova] in Affirmations
Page 185: Shelley, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Goethe[original has Gothe] and Ibsen
Page 186: Wilkinson did not have to seek rhymes[original has ryhmes]
Page 209: is[original has ii] attributed to Ibn Alaamidi
Page 238: theories of aesthetic[original has esthetic] emotion
Page 253: Abu Ali[original has ali] al Qali, 222
Page 253: Baqui,[comma missing in original] 211, 214
Page 253: Bossuet[original has Bossnet], 87, 228
Page 253: Castelvetro[original has Castelevetro], 43, 179
Page 253: Coleridge, S. T., 12, 47, 48, 49, 77, 78, 121,[comma missing in original] 173
Page 253: Croce, 15, 28, 81, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150[original has 50], 239
Page 254: Elliot[original has Elliott], Ebenezer, 88
Page 254: Erasmus,[comma missing in original] 43
Page 255: Ibn Khallikan[original has Khallikans], 209
Page 255: Imru'ul[original has Imru 'ul] Qays, 206, 215, 217[original has 218]
Page 255: Khalil,[comma missing in original] Ahmad, 221
Page 255: Neilson, William[original has Willian] A., 33
Page 255: Newbolt[original has Newboldt], Henry, 171
Page 255: Nidhami[original has Nidham] I Arudi, 204
Page 256: Nietzsche, 28, 30, 53, 81, 124, 154, 163, 168[original has 166], 171, 181, 189, 242
Page 256: Senancour[original has Sénancour], 49
Page 257: Tha'alibi[original has Tha 'alibi], 223
Page 257: Untermeyer[original has Untermyer], Louis, 118, 158
Page 257: Yeats, William Butler, 71, 165[original has extraneous comma]
Page 259: Areopagitica[original has Aeropagitica], 122, 178
Page 260: Eugénie[original has Eugéne] Grandet, 59
Page 260: History of English Poetry,[comma missing in original] 89
Page 260: Julius Cæsar[original has Caesar], 56
Page 260: Laocoon[original has Laocoön], 62
Page 260: Les Misérables[original has Miserables], 58
Page 261: Mademoiselle[original has Madamoiselle] de Maupin, 138
Mr. Sludge, "the Medium,"[original has quotation marks around the entire title] 125
Page 261: Nibelungen[original has Niebelungen] Lied, 102, 154
Page 262: Télémaque[original has Télemaque], 86
Page 263: Peloponnesian[original has Peloponessian] War, 53, 137
[52:A] Wilhelm[original has Wilhem] A. Ambros
[193:A] The Function of the Poet.[original has extraneous quotation mark]
The index entry for Mark Twain was alphabetized under "Mark". Entry has been moved to its proper place.
In the two Indexes, several page number references are incorrect in the original. The following table shows the page number references in the original and the corrected page references. The changes have been made in the Indexes.
| Index Entry | Incorrect page references |
Correct page references |
| Aristotle | 193, 221 | 191, 220 |
| Arnold, Matthew | 117 | 118 |
| Bacon, Francis | 52 | — |
| Burke, Edmund | 120 | 121 |
| Butcher, S. H. | 159 | 160 |
| Cicero | 119 | 120 |
| De Quincey, Thomas | 87 | 88 |
| Eaton, Walter P. | 115 | 116 |
| Hegel | 121 | 122 |
| Henley, Walter | 117 | 118 |
| Homer | 93 | 96 |
| Ibsen, Henrik | 48 | 49 |
| Keats, John | 247 | — |
| Milton, John | 49, 236 | 48, 238 |
| Morley, John | 168 | 178 |
| Moore, Thomas | 49 | 48 |
| Nicholson, D. H. S. | 218 | 217 |
| Nietzsche | 166 | 168 |
| Plato | 49, 52, 132 | 48, —, 133 |
| Pope, Alexander | 7 | 75 |
| Saintsbury, George | 221 | 220 |
| Schofield, W. H. | 212 | 214 |
| Shelley, P. B. | 29 | — |
| Spenser, Edmund | 236 | 235 |
| Swinburne, A. C. | 29 | 23 |
| Wordsworth, William | 29, 30 | —, 31 |
| Wulfstan | 107, 108 | 108, 109 |
| Beowulf | 108 | 109 |
| Birth of Tragedy | 29 | 30 |
| Brand | 60 | 59 |
| Defense of Poetry | 73 | 74 |
| Master Builder | 59 | 58 |
| Poetics | 221 | 220 |
| Wild Duck | 59 | 58 |