INDEXES

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

All references are to item numbers

Index 1: Poets Poets who are the subject of poems or extracts in the anthology

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

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

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 eight-

eenth-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;

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

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

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 post-

Wordsworthian 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,

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, 8 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

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

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

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;

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

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

fashion, poetry and: Clare on 64;

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

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

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;

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,

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

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

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; Pope on 23, 24, 158, 226, 231; Rochester on 239