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Dacier, Mme., 52 _Dacre_, by Countess of Morley, 153, 156 Dante, 225-6 Dartmouth, George, Earl of, 40, 42 D'Aubigne, 78 Daudet, A., 252 Daudet, E., 229-30 Davies, W.H., 262 De Vere, Mrs., 59 Devey, Miss, "Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton," by, 121 Dewsbury, the Brontes' connexion with, 141-2 Dickens, C, 100, 128, 131 Disraeli, B., novels of, address, 153-78; not taken seriously as an author, 153-4; three periods of writing, 154-5; contemporary fiction, 155-6; _Vivian Grey_, 156-9; _The Young Duke_, 157; _Henrietta Temple_, 159; _Contarini Fleming_, 159-60; Byron's influence on, 161; Voltaire's influence on, 162; fascinated by Venice, 163; _Venetia_, 163; Parliamentary experience and literary results, 164; _Coningsby_, 165-6; _Sybil_, 167-8; _Tancred_, 169-72; Prime Minister, 172; _Lothair_, 173-8; 131, 135 Donne, J., 78, 111, 236, 244, 252 Dorset, Charles, Earl of, 43 Dowden, 34 Doyle, Sir A.C., 103 Dryden, 34, 49, 50, 70, 82, 274 Du Bos, Abbe, 90 Durham, Lord, 131 Dyer, 70

Elizabeth, Queen, sympathy between Raleigh and, 18 _Eloisa to Abelard_, by Pope, its appeal to Romanticists, 83-4 Emerson, 107 _Eminent Victorians_, by Lytton Strachey, review of, 318-32 English Poetry, The Future of, 289-309; instances of national lapses in poetic output, 290; necessity of novelty of expression and difficulties arising, 291-2; advantages of vernacular poetry, 293; future poetry bound to dispense with obvious description and reflection and to take on greater subtlety of expression, 294-7; Wordsworth's speculations concerning nineteenth-century poetry, 298-9; prospect of social poetry, 299-301; "effusion of natural sensibility" more probable, 302-3; French experiments, 303-4; as to disappearance of erotic poetry, 305-6; dramatic poetry and symbolism, 306-9 _Essay on Criticism_, by Pope, Romanticists' attack upon, 71-4 _Essay on Genius of Pope_, by J. Warton, 80-3

Farquhar, 48 _Fatal Friendship_, by C. Trotter, 47-8 Fawcett, Rev. J., 97 Fenn, Mr., 60 Fletcher, John, songs of, 35 _For Annie_, by E.A. Poe, 112 Ford, songs of, 35 Forster, John, 131-2, 133 France, Anatole, 7

Gaskell, Mrs., 141 Gautier, T., 6, 10 Genoa, Duke of, 133 Georgian poetry, its pre-war characteristics, 261-2 Gibbon, 98 Gibson, W.W., 262 Gilbert, Sir H., 25 Gilpin, 87 Godolphin, Henrietta, 58 Goethe, 161 de Goncourt, E., 252 Gongora, 78 Gordon, General, 15; Mr. Strachey's portrait of, 329-30 Gore, Mrs., 178 de Gourmont, Remy, his opinion of Sully-Prudhomme, 9, 10 de Gournay, Mlle., 39 Granville, 47 Graves, R., poetry of, 280-1 Gray, 89, 108 Greene, 32 Grenfell, J., poems of, 271-3 Guiana, Raleigh's "gold mine" in, 20

Halifax, Lord, 50 Handel, 80 Harcourt, Mrs., 57 Hardy, Thomas, lyrical poetry of, 233-58; independence of his career as a poet, 233-4; unity and consistence of his poetry, 234; sympathy with Swinburne, 235; historic development of lyrics, 236; novel writing interfering with, 237-8; place of poetry in his literary career, 238; "Wessex Ballads" and "Poems of Past and Present," 238-40; "The Dynasts" and "Times' Laughing Stocks," 240-2; "Satires of Circumstance," 242-3; "Moments of Vision," 243-4; technical quality of his poetry, 244; metrical forms, 245-6; pessimistic conception of life, 247-8; compared with Crabbe, 248; consolation found by, 249-51; compared with Wordsworth, 251; human sympathy, 251; range of subjects, 252-5; speculations on immortality, 256; "The Dynasts," 68, 257; unchangeableness of his art, 257-8; "Song of the Soldiers," 263 Hawthorne, 107 Hayley, 5 Hazlitt, 301 _Henrietta Temple_, by B. Disraeli, 153, 159 Heywood, songs of, 35 Higgons, Bevil, 43 Hobbes, 98 Hodgson, W.N., 284 Homer, 12 Hooker, 17 Hope, H.T., 164 Housman, A.E., 268 Hugo, V., 6, 12, 111, 134 Hume, 98 Hunt, Leigh, 104

Inglis, Dr., 51, 58 Ireland, Raleigh in, 23

James I, distrust and treatment of Raleigh, 19, 20, 21 James II, 42 Johnson, Dr., his opinion of the Wartons, 86, 98 Jowett, Dr., 320

Keats, Mrs. Carlyle's opinion of, 9; 5, 90, 104, 105 King, Peter, 53, 59 Kipling, R., poetry of, 300

Landon, Letitia, 131 Lansdowne, Lord, 191 Lauderdale, Earl of, 42 Lauderdale, Maitland, Duke of, 40, 41 Lawson, H., poems of, 284 Lee, 50 Leibnitz, 42, 54, 55, 56, 59 Lemaitre, J., 7 Lewis, "Monk," 162 Locke, Catharine Trotter's defence of, 53-5; death of, 55; 42 Lockhart, 135 Lodge, 32 _Lothair_, by B. Disraeli, 173-8 _Love at a Loss_, by Catharine Trotter, 51 Lowell, 108 Lucas, Lord, 274 Lyly, John, 31 Lytton, Bulwer-, _see_ Bulwer-Lytton. Lytton, Lord, biography of Bulwer-Lytton, 117, 118-19, 120, 122, 129, 130, 131, 133, 137 Lytton, R., biography of Bulwer-Lytton, 118, 121

Macaulay, Lord, 320-1 Macpherson, 86 Malebranche, 52 Malherbe, 70, 77 Mallarme, 77, 106 Malory's _Morte d'Arthur_, 85 Manley, Mrs., 44, 45, 46, 61 Manning, Cardinal, Mr. Strachey's portrait of, 323, 330-2 Manoa, 19 Mant, 73 Marinetti, M., 305, 318 Marini, 78 Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, 57 Marlborough, Duke of, Catharine Trotter's poem of welcome to, 58 Marlowe, songs of, 34 Marsh, E., 261 Masham, Lady, 55, 56, 59 Massinger, 35 Melbourne, Lord, 131 _Memories_, by Lord Redesdale, 216, 217, 219, 221 Milton, influence upon eighteenth-century poetry, 79; 82, 110 Mitford, Major Hon. C, 218 Mockel, A., 112 _Moments of Vision_, by T. Hardy, 243-4 Monckton-Milnes, Sir R., 133 Morris, 104 Myers, F., 320

Nevill, Lady Dorothy, Open Letter to Lady Burghclere on, 181-96; memoirs of, 181-2; writer's friendship with, 152; appearance and physical strength, 183-4; characteristics, 184-5; a spectator of life, 186-7; attitude to the country, 187; wit, conversation and correspondence, 187-92; relation to literature and art, 192-4; emotional nature, 194-6 Nevill, Ralph, Memoirs of Lady D. Nevill by, 181-2 Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of, 39 Nichols, R., poetry of, 276-80 Nietzsche, 219-20 Nightingale, Florence, Mr. Strachey's Life of, 324 Norris, John, 52, 53

Obermann, 76 _Observations on the Faerie Queene_, by T. Warton, 84-6 _Ode on the Approach of Summer_, by T. Warton, 79 _Odes_, by J. Warton, 69, 75, 80 Otway, 50

Panmure, Lord, 325-6 Paris, Gaston, 7, 8 Parnell, 76 Parr, Dr. S., 120 Pater, W., 71 Patmore, C., 237 Peacock, 104 Peele, 32 Peguy, C., 268 _Pelham_, by Sir E. Bulwer-Lytton, the author of, 117-37; 135, 155 Pepys, S., 27 Perth, 4th Earl of, 40, 42 _Philip van Artevelde_, by H. Taylor, 107 Piers, Lady, 50, 51 Piers, Sir G., 50 Pix, Mrs. Mary, 45, 46, 61 Poe, E.A., centenary of, address on, 103-13; importance as a poet ignored, 103; original want of recognition of, 104-5; his reaction to unfriendly criticism, 105-6; essential qualities of his genius, 106-7; contemporary conception of poetry, 107-8; his ideal of poetry, 108; influences upon, 108-9; early verses, poetic genius in, 109; melodiousness of, 110-11; symbolism of, 112-13 _Poems and Ballads_, by A.C. Swinburne, Bulwer-Lytton's support of, 133-4 _Poems of Past and Present_, by T. Hardy, 238-40 Pope, Romanticists' revolt against classicism of, 70-90; 68 Prussia, Sophia Charlotte, Queen of, 58

Rabelais, 90 Radcliffe, Mrs., 85, 162 Raleigh, North Carolina, foundation of, 25-6 Raleigh, W., junr., 20 Raleigh, Sir W., address delivered on Tercentenary celebration of, 15-27; patriotism and hatred of Spain, 15-17, 21-2; character, 18; adventurous nature, 18-19; James I and, 19-20; his El Dorado dreams, 20; fall and trial, 21; savage aspects of, 23; as a naval strategist, 23-4; genius as coloniser, 24-5; imprisonment and execution, 26-7 Ramsay, Allan, 70 Redesdale, Lord, last days of, 216-30; literary career, 216-7; vitality: pride in authorship and garden, 217-8; death of son, 218; "Memories," 219; loneliness and problem of occupying his time, 219-22; origin of last book, its theme, 222-4; last days, 224-30 Rene, 76 Rentoul, L., poems of, 284 Rette, A., 112 Reynolds, 104 Ritson, Joseph, attack upon T. Warton, 88-9 Roanoke, Virginia, British settlement in, 25 Roche, Lord and Lady, 23 Romanticism, Two Pioneers of, Joseph and Thomas Warton, address on, 65-90 Romantic movement, features of, 71-90 Rossetti, D.G., 104, 136 Rousseau, J.J., English Romanticists' relation to, 68, 68, 75 Ruskin, 100 Russell, Odo, 330

Sainte-Beuve, 6 Sappho, 84 Sassoon, S., poems of, 282-4 _Satires of Circumstance_, by T. Hardy, 242-3 Satow, Sir E., 223 Scott, Sir W., 108, 128, 135 Scudery, M. de, 39 Seaman, Sir G., war invective of, 264 Selbourne, Lord, 320 Selden, 98 Senancour, 74 _Sentimental Journey_, The, by L. Sterne, 96, 100 Seventeenth century, English women writers of, 39 Shakespeare, the Songs of, 31-5; their dramatic value, 31-3; lyrical qualities, 33-5; comparison with contemporary lyricists, 35; 17, 82 Shelley, 74, 104, 108, 162 Shenstone, 70 _Shepherd of the Ocean, The_, 15-27 Shorter, C., 141 Some Soldier Poets, 261-85; outbreak of war poetry, 262-3; mildness of British Hymns of Hate, 264-5; military influence upon poetic feeling, 265-6; tendency to dispense with form, 266; common literary influences, 267-8; Rupert Brooke, 268-70; J. Grenfell, 271-3; M. Baring, 273-5; N.M.F. Corbett, 275; E.W. Tennant, 275; R. Nichols, 276-80; R. Graves, 280-1; S. Sassoon, 282-4; C.H. Sorley, W.N. Hodgson, K. Lawson, L. Rentoul, R.E. Vernede, 284 Sorley, C.H., poems of, 284 Southey, 5, 104 Spain, Anglo-Spanish rivalry in days of Walter Raleigh, 16-17, 21-3, 24 Spenser, 17, 82, 84, 111 Stephen, Sir Leslie, 106, 237 Sterne, Laurence, Essay on the Charm of, 93-100; birth and childhood, 93-4; temperament, 94-5; intellectual development, 95-6; alternation of feeling about, 97; English literature's debt to, 98; his "indelicacy," 99; irrelevancy, 99; Shandean influences upon literature, 100 Sterne, Mrs., 93 Sterne, Roger, 93 Stevenson, R.L., 100 Strachey, Lytton, "Eminent Victorians" by, review of, 318-32 Stukeley, Sir L., 21 Sully-Prudhomme, fluctuations in taste as regards, 5-9 Sumners, Montagu, 39 Swinburne, A. C, Bulwer-Lytton and, 133-4; Hardy's sympathy with, 235; 68, 81, 111 Symbolism and poetry, 308-9

_Tales of Old Japan_, by Lord Redesdale, 216 _Tancred_, by B. Disraeli, 153 Taste, fluctuations in, 3-12; regarding Wordsworth, 3-4; Mr. Balfour's conclusions, 4-5, 10; volte-face concerning Sully-Prudhomme, 5-10 _Tea-Table Miscellany_, 70 Temple, Mrs., 45 Tennant, E.W., poetry of, 275 Tennyson, Victorian opinion of, 320-1; 7, 12, 81, 106, 116, 132, 299 Thackeray, 144 _The Bamboo Garden_, by Lord Redesdale, 216 _The Bells_, by E.A. Poe, 111 _The Dynasts_, by T. Hardy, 240, 257 _The Enthusiast_, by Joseph Warton, importance of, 69, 73 _The Female Wits_, by Catharine Trotter, 45-6 _The Raven_, by E.A. Poe, 108, 111 _The Revolution in Sweden_, by Catharine Trotter, 57-8 _The Unhappy Penitent_, by Catharine Trotter, 50-1 _The Young Duke_, by B. Disraeli, 153, 157 Thomson, James, 78, 307 Thomson's _Castle of Indolence_, 68 _Times' Laughing Stocks_, by T. Hardy, 240-2 Tottel's Miscellany, 261 _Tristram Shandy_, by L. Sterne, 94, 96, 98, 99, 100 Trotter, Capt. D., R.N., 40 Trotter, Catharine, 39-62; precocity, 39, 42; parentage, 40; poverty, 41-2; early verses, 43; correspondence with celebrated people, 43; _Agnes de Castro_, 43-5; _The Female Wits_, 45-6; _Fatal Friendship_, 47-9; elegy on Dryden's death, 49-50; _The Unhappy Penitent_, 50-1; _Love at a Loss_, 51; friendship with the Burnets, 52; philosophical studies, 42, 52-3; enthusiasm for Locke, 53, 55; _The Revolution in Sweden_, 54, 57; correspondence with Leibnitz, 55; indignation at aspersions on feminine intellectuality, 56-7; poem of welcome to Marlborough, 58; attachment to G. Burnet, 59-60; marriage with Mr. Cockburn, 60; later life, 60-1 Trotter, Mrs., poverty of, 41 Tupper, 5 Turkey Company, 40

_Ulalume_, by E.A. Poe, 103, 107, 109, 112 Upchear, Henry, 31

_Veluvana_, by Lord Redesdale, theme of, 222-4, 226 _Venetia_, by B. Disraeli, 163 Venice, its fascination for Disraeli, 163 Verbruggen, Mrs., 45 Verlaine, Paul, 7 Vernede, R.E., poems of, 284 de Verville, B., 95, 95, 96 Victorian Age, the Agony of, 313-37 Virgil, 12 _Vivian Grey_, by B. Disraeli, 155, 156, 157-9 Voltaire, 3, 162

Waller, 82 Warburton, Dr., 33, 81, 97 Ward, Mrs. Humphrey, 144, 327 Ward, Plumer, novels of, 155, 156, 178 Warton, Joseph and Thomas; Two Pioneers of Romanticism, address on, 65-90; parentage and early habits, 66-7; heralds of romantic movement, 67; literary contemporaries and atmosphere, 68; Joseph, the leading spirit, 68-9; _The Enthusiast_, its romantic qualities, 69; their revolt against principles of classic poetry, 70-4; characteristic features of early Romanticism, 74-9; Miltonic influence, 79-80; _Essay on the Genius of Pope_, 80-4; _Observations on the Faerie Queene_, 84-6; Johnson's criticism of, 86-7; Ritson's attack upon Thomas, 88; defects of, 89-90 Webster's _White Devil_, 34 _Wessex Ballads_, by T. Hardy, 238-40 Wheeler, R.D. (Lady Lytton), Miss Devey's Life of, 121; story of marriage with Bulwer-Lytton, 121-9 Whitehead, 74 William III, 41 Willis, N.P., 105 Wilson, Harriette, 130-1 Wolseley, Lord, 328 Wooler, Miss, 141, 142, 143 Wordsworth, Hardy compared with, 251; speculations concerning future poetry, 298-9; 3, 4, 10, 74, 78, 90, 104, 107, 108, 110, 253 Wycherley, 44

Yeats, 70 Young, 68, 69, 81

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