_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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