- Abercrombie, Lascelles, 197 n., 201 n.
- Addison, Joseph, 21
- “Ælla” (T. Chatterton’s), 163
- Akenside, Mark, 16, 27, 69-70, 138-9, 189, 195
- Dr. Johnson’s criticism, 16
- “Epistle to Curio,” 195
- Latinism, 69-70
- Personification, 138-9
- “Pleasures of the Imagination,” 69
- “Alma” (M. Prior’s), 75
- “Amyntor and Theodora,” 142
- “Anti-Jacobin, The,” 173 n.
- “Approach of Summer, The,” 179
- “Archaism,” 17-21, 80-101
- Aristotle, 10-12, 185
- Armstrong, John, 69-70, 110
- Arnold, Matthew, 2, 41, 181, 198, 201
- “Art of Preserving Health,” 69, 110
- Babbitt, I., 13 n., 203 n.
- Bailey, J. C., 169 n.
- Ballads, 95-7, 196
- Barfield, Owen, 202 n.
- “Bastard, The,” 111
- Beattie, James, 19, 93 n., 125
- Beers, H. A., 97 n.
- “Beowulf, The,” 104 n.
- Binyon, Laurence, 13 n.
- “Biographia Literaria,” 13 n., 24 n., 48 n., 51 n., 127 n., 156 n., 173 n., 185 n.
- “Birth of Flattery, The” (G. Crabbe’s), 168
- Blair, Robert, 110, 176 n.
- Blake, William, 28, 46-7, 77, 99, 124, 129, 136-59, 163-7, 179-80, 181, 187 n., 198, 202
- Allegory and Vision, remarks on, 165
- Artist, as, 136, 159 n.
- Compounds, 124, 129
- Felicity of diction, 46-7, 202
- “Imitation of Spenser,” 47, 165
- “Letters,” 47 n., 164 n., 187 n.
- “Muses, To the,” 47
- Mysticism, 164
- Personifications, 163-7, 179-80
- “Piper, The,” 202
- “Songs of Experience,” 46, 165 n., 166
- “Songs of Innocence,” 46, 165
- Stock diction, 46-7
- Blount, T., 93
- Boswell’s “Life of Johnson,” 16 n.
- “Botanic Garden” (E. Darwin’s), 12, 51-2, 126, 173-5
- Bowles, William Lisle, 48
- Boyce, S., 162
- Bruce, Michael, 122
- Burns, Robert, 28, 100, 198
- Bysshe, Edward, 30
- “By-ways Round Helicon”, 195 n.
- Campbell, Dykes, 128 n.
- Canning, George, 139, 173 n.
- Capell, Edward, 95-6
- “Castaway, The,” 49, 170
- “Castle of Indolence,” 90-2, 161
- Chapman, George, 105
- “Charge to the Poets” (W. Whitehead’s), 20 n.
- “Chase, The” (W. Somerville’s), 68, 110, 142
- Chatterton, Thomas, 19, 42-3, 97-8, 123-4, 162-3
- Compounds, 123-4
- Personifications, 162-3
- “Rowley Poems,” 97-8
- Stock diction, 42-3
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, 26, 84-6, 133
- Chaucerian imitations, 84-6
- Chesterfield, Lord, 20
- “Child of Quality, Lines to” (M. Prior’s), 195
- “Choice, The” (J. Pomfret’s), 195
- Churchill, John, 139-40, 169-70
- Classical literature (connexion with romantic), 181-2
- Coleridge, H. N., 156 n.
- Coleridge, S. T., 1, 13, 24, 31, 32, 51, 100, 127-8, 156, 173, 182, 193, 204
- Archaisms, 100
- Compounds, 127-8
- Darwin, E., remarks, on, 13, 173
- Gray’s personifications, on, 156
- Imagination, on, 13
- “Letters,” 173 n.
- Pope’s style, on, 24, 32, 193
- Collins, William, 16, 40-1, 71, 98, 116-7, 129, 149, 150-5, 166, 167, 191, 196
- Archaisms, 98
- Compounds, 116-7, 129
- Dr. Johnson’s criticisms of, 16, 40, 151
- “Odes,” 149 n., 150-5
- Personifications, 150-5, 166, 167, 178, 179, 191
- Romantic forerunner, a, 196
- Stock diction, 40-1
- Compound epithets, 4, 102-31, 204
- “Convention and Revolt in Poetry,” 200 n.
- Courthope, W. J., 9 n., 17 n., 45 n., 50 n., 57 n., 133 n., 149 n., 194 n.
- Coventry, F., 147
- Cowper, William, 20, 24, 31, 48-50, 73-4, 76, 126, 168-73
- Archaism, on, 20
- Compounds, 126
- Familiar style, on the, 24
- “Homer” translation, 48, 74, 126
- Latinism, 73-5
- “Letters,” 20 n., 48 n., 74 n.
- “Olney Hymns,” 49, 169
- Personifications, 169-73, 179
- Stock diction, 48-9
- “Table Talk,” 49
- “Task, The,” 49, 73-4, 170-1
- Crabbe, George, 50-1, 124-5, 167-8, 179, 195, 204
- Compounds, 124-5
- Dryden’s style, on, 204
- Personifications, 167-8, 179
- Stock diction, 50-1
- Croxall, Samuel, 93 n.
- Cunningham, John, 27, 189
- Darwin, Erasmus, 12, 37, 51-2, 53, 120, 173-5
- Davenant, Sir William, 21
- Denham, Sir John, 15
- Dennis, John, 11 n.
- De Quincey, Thomas, 52
- “Descriptive Sketches,” 52, 175, 176 n.
- “Deserted Village, The,” 45-6, 111-2, 195
- Diderot, Denis, 203
- Dodsley, Robert, 147, 195
- Doughty, Oswald, 98 n., 195 n.
- Drayton, Michael, 107
- Drinkwater, John, 9 n.
- Dryden, John, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 26-7, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 58-9, 81-2, 83, 105-6, 109, 134, 181, 194, 204
- “Annus Mirabilis,” 8
- Archaisms, 18, 81-2
- Chaucer “translations,” 26-7
- Compounds, 105-6
- “Essays” and “Prefaces,” 7-11
- “Hind and Panther,” 195
- Language of poetry, on, 8-9
- Latinism, 58-9
- Periphrasis, use of, 28, 33
- Personifications, 134
- “Religio Laici,” 194
- Royal Society, 7
- Satire, 106, 140
- Technical terms, on, 21
- “Duellist, The” (Charles Churchill’s), 140 n.
- Dyer, John, 39, 70, 109, 142, 188-9
- Earle, J., 35 n.
- “Economy of Vegetation,” 12, 126, 173-4
- Edmonds, C., 173 n.
- “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” 42, 72, 157, 159, 195, 198
- “Eloisa to Abelard,” 134
- Elton, Oliver, 10 n., 135 n., 182 n., 186 n., 197 n.
- Emerson, O., 104 n.
- “English Lyric in the Age of Reason,” 195
- “Enthusiast, The,” 71, 121, 149
- “Epistle to Curio” (M. Akenside’s), 195 n.
- Epithalamium (W. Thompson’s), 160
- “Essay on Criticism,” 9-10, 29 n., 195
- “Eton College, Ode on a Distant View of,” 156
- Evelyn, John, 7
- “Evening, Ode to,” 41, 116, 155
- “Evening Walk, The,” 52, 127, 175-6
- “Excursion, The” (David Mallet’s), 142
- “Faerie Queene,” 87, 94, 99, 133, 159-60, 192
- Falconer, William, 22, 43-4
- “Fleece, The,” (J. Dyer’s), 39, 70
- Fletcher, Giles, 57
- Fletcher, Phineas, 57
- “Fugitive Poets” (Bell’s), 122, 147 n., 195
- Furetière, Antoine, 5
- Gay, John, 33, 109
- Gibbon, Edward, 198
- Glanvill, Joseph, 7
- Goldsmith, Oliver, 14-15, 20, 44-6, 72, 111-2, 140-1, 195
- Archaism, on, 20
- Compounds, in, 117-8
- Diction of poetry, on, 15
- Latinism, 72-3
- Personifications, 141-2, 179
- Stock diction, 44-6
- Graeme, James, 122
- Grainger, James, 70, 110, 142
- “Grave,” the (Robert Blair’s), 110
- Gray, Thomas, 8, 16-17, 18-19, 21-2, 31, 41-2, 67, 71-2, 93 n., 98-9, 117-20, 146, 155-9, 177, 196
- Archaisms, on, 18-19, 98-9
- Coinages, on, 21
- Compounds, 117-20
- Diction of poetry, on, 8, 16-17
- “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” 42, 72, 157, 159, 195, 198
- Latinism, 71-2
- Letters, 8 n., 16 n.
- Personifications, 155-9, 177, 191
- Plain colloquial style, 17, 195
- Romantic forerunner, A, 150, 196
- Stock diction, 41-2
- Technical terms, on, 22
- Grierson, H. J. C., 159 n.
- “Grongar Hill,” 39, 109, 184, 188, 190
- Hamilton, William (of Bangor), 146
- Hill, G. B., 8 n., 15 n., 16 n., 23 n., 112 n., 151 n.
- “Hind and Panther, The,” 195
- “Horror, Ode to,” 148
- Hughes, John, 83
- Hume, David, 198
- Hutchinson, T., 52 n., 68 n., 97 n., 132 n., 176 n.
- “Hymn to May” (W. Thompson’s), 160
- “Il Bellicoso,” 147
- “Il Pacifico,” 147
- “Il Penseroso,” 71, 176
- “Inebriety,” 167
- Jago, R., 122
- Johnson, Dr., 15-16, 17, 19-20, 23, 31, 40-2, 44, 72-3, 111, 119, 140-1, 151, 159, 177, 179
- Archaism, 19-20
- Collins, on, 150, 151
- Compounds, 111, 119-20
- Diction, on, 15-16
- “Dictionary,” 140 n.
- Dryden, on, 8
- Gray’s personifications, on, 156 n.
- Latinism, 73
- Personifications, 140-1, 177, 179
- Pope’s style, on, 23, 31, 193
- Satire, 139
- Stock diction, 45
- Jonson, Ben, 17-18
- Keats, John, 126, 128, 129, 144, 187, 188, 192, 196, 203, 204
- Ker, W. P., 7 n., 8 n., 9 n., 11 n., 18 n., 21 n.
- Kersey, John, 97
- “L’Allegro,” 162, 176
- Langhorne, J., 122
- Langland, William, 133
- Latinism, 56-79, 191-2
- Lee, Vernon, 197 n.
- “Legacy of Greece, The,” 199
- Legouis, E., 53 n., 127 n., 175 n.
- Lessing’s “Laokoon,” 12 n.
- Lloyd, Robert, 88 n.
- “London” (Dr. Johnson’s), 111, 140-1
- “Loves of the Plants” (E. Darwin’s), 12, 173
- “Loves of the Triangles” (G. Canning’s), 173 n.
- Lowes, Professor J. L., 200
- “Lyrical Ballads,” 1, 2, 175
- Lyttleton, G., 119
- Maeterlinck, M., 200
- Mallet, D., 110, 144 n., 142
- Marlowe, Christopher, 105 n.
- Marriott, Dr., 147
- Mason, William, 86, 146-7
- Masson, David, 58 n.
- Mendez, Moses, 88, 122
- Mickle, William, 93, 125, 162 n., 171 n.
- Milton, John, 8, 33-6, 41, 57-8, 60, 61, 62, 66, 70, 71, 72, 76, 77, 81, 94, 107, 133, 136, 142, 146-7, 148, 149, 150, 176-7, 191-2
- Archaism, 81, 94
- Compound epithets, 105
- Diction, 34-6, 57-8
- Imitated in eighteenth century, 60-70, 76-7, 146-50, 191-2
- Latinism, 57-8, 177
- Personification, 133, 137, 142, 146-7, 176-7
- “Monody written near Stratford-on-Avon,” 149 n.
- Morel, Leon, 39 n., 63 n., 78 n., 91 n., 114 n., 145 n.
- Murray, Gilbert, 199
- Nashe, Thomas, 105 n.
- Neo-classicism, 9-13, 53-4
- “Night Thoughts” (E. Young’s), 28, 68-9, 136-8
- “Nocturnal Reverie” (Countess of Winchilsea’s), 187
- Old English Compounds, 104
- “Ossian” poems, 19, 166
- “Paradise Lost,” 34-6, 57-8, 76, 133, 136, 184
- Parnell, Thomas, 135-6
- “Passions, Ode to the,” 153
- “Penshurst” (F. Coventry’s), 147
- Percy, Bishop, 96-7
- Personification and abstraction, 133-80, 190-1
- Phelps, W. L., 142 n.
- Philips, John, 37, 60-1, 86, 109, 142
- “Pity, Ode to” (W. Collins’), 153
- “Pleasures of the Imagination” (M. Akenside’s), 69, 138-9, 189
- “Pleasures of Melancholy, The” (T. Warton’s), 71, 121
- “Poetical Character, Ode on the” (W. Collins’s), 152
- “Poetical Sketches” (W. Blake’s), 99, 167, 181
- Pomfret, John, 195
- Pope, Alexander, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21-2, 23-4, 25, 29, 31-4, 36-7, 40, 42, 45, 46, 48, 50, 54, 59-60, 67, 73, 81, 82-3, 85, 106-9, 111, 115, 130, 134, 135, 136, 139, 140, 183, 184, 185, 189, 193-4, 204
- Archaism, 18, 82-3
- Compounds, 21, 106-9
- Diction, 33, 36-7
- “Dunciad,” 18, 134
- “Essay on Criticism,” 14, 29 n., 195
- Heroic couplet, 29-30, 31-2
- “Homer,” 2, 14, 17, 31-2, 40, 48, 184
- Language of poetry, 9-10
- Latinism, 59-60
- Personifications, 134
- Satire, 139, 140
- Potter, R., 122
- Prior, Matthew, 75, 87, 95, 195
- “Progress of Error” (W. Cowper’s), 170
- “Progress of Poetry” (Thomas Gray’s), 72
- “Prolusions” (E. Capell’s), 95-6
- Raleigh, Sir Walter, 35 n., 58 n., 66 n.
- “Rape of the Lock,” 134
- “Religio Laici,” 194
- “Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,” 19, 96-7
- Reynolds, Myra, 28 n., 61 n., 75 n.
- Ritson, Joseph, 96 n.
- Robertson, J. L., 6 n., 62
- Rogers, Samuel, 125-6
- Romanticism, connexion with classicism, 181-2
- Rowley poems, 42-4, 97-8, 162-3
- “Ruins of Rome” (J. Dyer’s), 109, 142
- Ruskin, John, 180
- Russell, A. J. B., 164 n.
- Saintsbury, George, 29-30, 76 n., 106, 130, 131, 194 n.
- Sampson, John, 47 n., 99 n., 165 n.
- Savage, Richard, 75, 111, 136
- Schmidt’s “Shakespeare Lexicon,” 35
- “Schoolmistress, The,” 88-9, 161
- Scott, John, 123
- Scott, Sir Walter, 100, 192
- “Seasons, The” (J. Thomson’s), 37-9, 62-8, 112-6, 142-6, 190, 196, 198
- Selincourt, B. de, 35 n., 128 n.
- Shakespeare, William, 35, 105 n., 129
- Shawcross, T. (see “Biographia Literaria”).
- Shelley, P. B., 126, 178, 203, 204
- Shenstone, W., 26, 29, 75, 88-9, 118 n., 161
- “Shorter Poems of the Eighteenth Century,” 195 n.
- Sidney, Sir Philip, 105 n.
- Skeat, W. W., 43 n., 97, 98 n., 102 n.
- Smart, Christopher, 169 n.
- Smith, Gregory, 14 n., 18 n., 56 n.
- Somerville, William, 110, 142
- “Song to David,” 169 n.
- Spence, Joseph, 12
- Spenser, Edmund, 80-1, 105 n., 133, 159-60, 191, 192
- Spenserian imitations, 18, 84, 86-94, 160-2, 178, 191, 192
- Spingarn, J. E., 5 n., 6 n., 7 n.
- Sprat, Thomas, 6, 7
- Stock diction, The, 25-55, 183-7
- “Stones of Venice, The” (J. Ruskin’s), 180 n.
- “Storie of William Canynge,” 163
- “Sugar Cane, The,” 70, 110, 142
- Sweet, Henry, 102 n., 103 n.
- Swift, Jonathan, 139
- Symbolism, 13, 164, 179, 180
- Symons, Arthur, 47 n.
- “Syr Martin,” 93, 125, 162 n.
- “Table Talk” (S. T. Coleridge’s), 156 n.
- “Table Talk” (W. Cowper’s), 49, 170
- Taine, H., 183
- “Task, The” (W. Cowper’s), 49, 73-4, 170-1
- Theory of diction, 5-24
- Thomson, James, 37-9, 62-8, 76, 77, 78, 90-2, 94, 112-6, 131, 142-6, 161, 167, 179, 186, 188
- “Castle of Indolence,” 90-2, 161
- Compounds, 112-6, 131
- Diction generally, 37, 67
- Latinism, 62-8, 78, 192
- Miltonic borrowings, 37, 66
- Nature poet, a, 37, 78, 186
- Personifications, 142-6, 161, 166, 178-9
- Romantic forerunner, a, 196
- “Seasons, The,” 37-9, 62-8, 112-6, 142-6, 190, 195, 196, 198
- Stock diction, 37-8
- Thompson, W., 61-2, 85, 89-90, 118 n.
- “Tintern Abbey, Lines written above,” 131
- “Traveller, The” (O. Goldsmith’s), 45, 72, 112, 141
- Trenery, Grace R., 95 n.
- “Triumph of Isis,” 149 n.
- Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 86, 98 n.
- Upton, John, 93 n.
- “Vacation, The,” 147
- “Vale Abbey, Lines written at” (T. Warton’s), 149
- “Valetudinarian, The,” 147
- “Vanity of Human Wishes,” 73, 111, 140-1, 195
- “Village, The” (G. Crabbe’s), 167, 168, 195
- “Vision of Patience” (S. Boyce’s), 162
- “Vision of Solomon” (W. Whitehead’s), 162
- Wakefield, Benjamin, 95 n.
- Waller, Edmund, 15
- Walpole, Horace, 119, 156 n.
- “Wanderer, The” (R. Savage’s), 111, 136
- Ward, A. W., 204 n.
- Warton, Joseph, 21, 70-1, 121, 134, 148-9
- Warton, Thomas, 71, 83, 84, 85, 86, 120-1, 149
- Watson, George, 100 n.
- Watts, Isaac, 49
- Welsted, Leonard, 59 n.
- Wesley, John, 49, 50, 198
- Wesley, Charles, 49
- West, Gilbert, 118 n.
- White, Gilbert (of Selborne), 28
- White, H. O., 148 n.
- Whitehead, W., 20 n., 122, 162
- Williams, I. O., 195 n.
- Wilson, Sir James, 100 n.
- Winchilsea, Anne, Countess of, 61, 109, 187-8
- “Windsor Forest,” 134
- Wordsworth, William, 1, 3, 13, 15, 24, 25, 27 n., 28, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 48, 51-3, 67, 68, 77, 79, 97, 115, 132, 175, 182, 185, 187, 189, 192, 193, 197, 201, 204
- Archaism, 100
- Compounds, 127
- Darwin’s (Erasmus) influence, 52-4, 175
- Latinism, 79, 192
- Percy’s “Reliques,” on, 97
- Personifications, 133, 175-6, 178, 180
- Pope’s style, on, 24
- “Prefaces,” 1, 53, 132, 182, 197, 204
- “Prelude, The,” 184-5
- Wyche, Sir Peter, 7
- “Yardley Oak” (W. Cowper’s), 131, 172
- Yeats, W. B., 164 n.
- Young, Edward, 9 n., 28, 68-9, 136-8, 151