Addison, Joseph, 53, 69, 71.
Alcott, A. Bronson, 76.
American literature, art in, 16.
_See also_ Literature.
Amiel, Henri Frédéric, on Renan, 65;
on Cherbuliez, 188;
his _Journal_, 229;
quotation from, 188.
Analogy, a frequent form of argument, 27;
between man and nature, 27, 28, 48-50;
metaphors, 28-31;
legitimate uses of, 31, 32;
accidental and essential, 32;
immortality in, 32-39;
in theology, 39;
false and true, 39-44;
between mind and body, 44, 45;
in the physical world, 45-47;
between art and nature, 50, 54;
rhetorical and scientific, 51.
Arnold, Matthew, 34, 50, 53, 59, 70, 78, 79;
as a critic, 90-92, 228; 93, 96;
greatest as a literary critic, 97;
his _Thyrsis_, 103;
his aristocratic ideals, 112-114, 118; 123, 124, 133, 184, 189, 206,
210;
his _Literature and Dogma_, 228, 229;
quotations from, 53, 93.
Art, disinterestedness of, 134, 135;
universality of, 135-142;
disinterestedness not indifferentism in, 142-148;
treatment of vice and sin in, 148-150.
Bacon, Francis, 205, 218.
Bagehot, Walter, 26;
quotation from, 26.
Barante, Baron de, 104.
Baudelaire, Charles, 20.
Birds, dusting and bathing, 174.
Books, the enduring, 3;
the re-reading of, 216-231.
_See also_ Literature.
Boswell, James, his _Life of Samuel Johnson_, 225.
Brontë, Charlotte, 103.
Browne, Sir Thomas, his _Religio Medici_, 229;
on the past, 241;
quotation from, 241.
Browning, Robert, 2;
his _How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix_, 70, 166;
114, 184.
Brunetière, Ferdinand, 71, 85;
his criticism, 87; 90, 96, 104, 107, 109;
a critic of the aristocratic type, 112, 118.
Bunting, snow (_Passerina nivalis_), 174.
Burney, Fanny, 62.
Butler, Joseph, 33, 34.
Byron, Lord, 131, 141;
eloquent but not truly poetical, 165;
an example of his eloquence, 166;
quotation from, 166.
Campbell, Thomas, 166;
his _To the Rainbow_, 166; 182.
Carlyle, Thomas, 2;
his definition of poetry, 10;
his criticism, 89, 90; 119;
his vehemence and enthusiasm, 123, 124;
his _French Revolution_, 164; 196;
his service to most readers more moral than intellectual, 223;
his _Past and Present_, 224;
his _Latter-Day Pamphlets_, 224;
his _Life of Sterling_, 224;
his essays on Scott, Burns, and Johnson, 224;
his _Frederick_, 224;
his _Reminiscences_, 224;
his _Sartor Resartus_, 224;
handicapped by his style, 224, 225;
to Emerson on the loss of his mother, 237;
his attitude toward the past, 238;
quotations from, 164, 165, 237.
Catholicism, 125.
Cats, 176.
Chateaubriand, 93.
Cherbuliez, Victor, 188.
Chickadee (_Parus atricapillus_), 173.
Cicero, quotations from, 240, 241.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 119.
Collins, Wilkie, 8.
_Conversations with Goethe_, 225.
Cowley, Abraham, his essays, 220.
Criticism, the scope, aims, and functions of, 80-84;
vital truth the important thing in, 84;
personality and impressionism in, 85-89;
inspiration more important than judgment in, 89-92;
diversity of critical judgments, 92-95;
the inner self of the critic a necessary element in, 95, 96;
importance of the power of expression in, 96-98;
relativity of truth in, 98-100;
subjective and objective, 100-104;
individual taste in, 104, 105;
catholicity in, 105-108;
democratic and aristocratic, 109-115;
good and bad taste in, 116-118;
the doctrinaire in, 118-126;
the most productive attitude in, 127-132;
professional, 127, 128, 130;
predilection in, 132;
antipathy in, 132, 133.
Cuckoo, European, 176, 178.
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., his _Two Years Before the Mast_, 3, 226,
227.
Dante, 209.
Darwin, Charles, 211.
Defoe, Daniel, 3.
Democracy, in literature, 109-115;
modern growth of, 151, 152;
its effect upon literature, 152-156.
_Democratic Criticism_, 109.
Demosthenes, 162.
De Quincey, Thomas, 78, 163;
his _Philosophy of Roman History_, 163; 210;
quotation from, 163, 164.
Dickens, Charles, 5, 7;
his _Tale of Two Cities_, 225, 226;
a matchless mimic with no deep seriousness, 225, 226.
Didacticism, 142.
Distinction, 113-115.
Dowden, Edward, 124.
Dryden, John, 92.
Earthworm, Gilbert White’s observations on, 178.
Eckermann, Johann Peter, his _Conversations with Goethe_, 225.
Eliot, George, 6, 119, 121.
Eloquence, its relation to poetry, 161-167.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1, 19, 24, 27, 28;
on individuality, 53, 54; 59, 76, 78, 105, 106, 119;
as a poet, 122;
as a critic, 122, 123; 124, 132, 136;
his Nature, 164;
an example of poetic prose from, 164; 181, 182, 184;
his appeal chiefly to youth and early manhood, 191;
never ceased to be a clergyman, 192;
no prosaic side, 192;
his sympathy for ideas rather than for men or things, 193, 194;
his inborn radicalism, 194, 195:
abstract in his aim and concrete
in his methods, 196;
his suggestiveness, 205; 223, 228-230, 237;
his attitude toward the past, 238;
quotations from, 24, 53, 54, 59, 164, 193-195.
English poetry, 165.
English writers, 7, 63.
Evans, Mary Ann (George Eliot), 6, 119, 121.
Everett, Edward, 5.
Family tree, the, 47, 48.
Fashions, 2.
Ferguson, Charles, his _Religion of Democracy_, quotations from, 210,
211.
Fern-owl, 175.
Fiction, values in, 6, 7;
a finer but not a greater art to-day than formerly, 60, 61.
Fieldfare, 174.
Flaubert, Gustave, 19.
France, Anatole, 112.
Franklin, Benjamin, his Autobiography, 226.
Freeman, Edward Augustus, 5.
French art, 146.
French criticism, 97.
French poetry, more eloquent than poetic, 165.
French writers, modern, 7, 63.
Froude, James Anthony, 5;
his style, 68.
George, Henry, as a writer, 9.
German writers, 7.
Gibbon, Edward, 78, 163.
Gladden, Rev. Washington, his _Art and Morality_, 143, 144;
quotation from, 143.
God, the old and the new ideas of, 152.
_Goethe, Conversations with_, 225.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 93, 123, 127;
his _Sorrows of Young Werther_, 138; 141;
on poetical and unpoetical objects, 157;
on Byron, 165; 184;
quotations from, 141, 157.
Gosse, Edmund, his _Questions at Issue_, 153, 154;
quotation from, 154.
Grant, Gen. Ulysses Simpson, his _Memoirs_, 5, 227;
an elemental man, 6;
his greatness of the democratic type, 113, 114;
his commonness, 115;
his lack of vanity, 227.
Gray, Thomas, 53, 103;
his _Elegy in a Country Churchyard_, 137.
Greeks, the, their view of Nature, 203.
Grimm, Hermann, 93.
Grouse, ruffed (_Bonasa umbellus_), 174.
Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume, 119.
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, his _Marco Bozzaris_, 166.
Happiness, negative happiness the most one ought to expect, 244;
one’s capacity for happiness not affected permanently by
adventitious circumstances, 244-248;
congenial work essential to, 248-256.
Harrison, Frederic, 25, 61.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 7;
the most suggestive of our romancers, 205.
Heine, Heinrich, 80.
Hennequin, his _Scientific Criticism_, 109.
Heronry, 177.
Hewlett, Maurice, 25, 26;
quotation from, 25.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 72.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 47, 79;
his _Old Ironsides_, 166;
his _Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_, 219;
his real ideas and sham ideas, 219;
his lack of deep seriousness, 220.
Honey dew, 178.
Howells, William Dean, 5, 7, 72, 81;
his _Criticism and Fiction_, 82, 83, 109; 206;
quotation from, 83.
Hugo, Victor, 103, 119;
his moral earnestness, 189.
Hume, David, elegance of his style, 77;
on the eloquence of Demosthenes, 162;
on Cowley and Parnell, 220;
quotations from, 77, 162.
Hunt, Leigh, 131.
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 51, 78, 119.
Ibsen, Henrik, 149.
Immorality in art and literature, 148-150.
Immortality, false analogies of, 32-39.
Indian, the, Thoreau on, 198, 199.
Indifferentism, 142, 143, 146-148.
Individualism, 125, 126.
Individuality in literature, 53-60.
Institutionalism, 125, 126.
Irvine, J. P., quotation from his poem _The Lightning Express_, 159.
James, Henry, on Whitman’s letters, 4; 5, 69, 121;
style of his later works, 206.
Jeffrey, Francis, Lord, 131.
_Jesse’s Gleanings in Natural History_, 179.
Joan of Arc, 73.
Johnson, Charles Frederick, his _Elements of Literary Criticism_, 109.
Johnson, Samuel, 76;
his _Rambler_, 76;
his criticism, 90;
on Dryden, 92; 96, 103, 112, 172, 205;
Boswell’s Life of, 225.
Jonson, Ben, a bit of his prose, 26.
Keats, John, 11;
his _Ode to a Nightingale_, 75.
Kidd, Benjamin, his _Social Evolution_, 9.
Landor, Walter Savage, 93;
lacking in moral stress and fervor, 124; 132, 184.
Lemaître, Jules, 87.
Life, the earlier years of one’s, 231-243.
Lincoln, Abraham, his Gettysburg speech, 5;
an elemental man, 6;
his greatness of the democratic type, 113, 114;
his commonness, 115, 116.
Literature, the enduring in, 1-3, 216-231;
values in, 4-9;
definitions of, 9-13;
style in, 14, 52-79;
truth in, 14, 15;
morality and art in, 16;
art in, 17-20;
the teaching of, 20-25;
good and bad taste in, 26, 116-118;
democracy in, 109-115;
the doctrinaire in, 118-126;
art _vs._ didacticism in, 135-142, 144-150;
an end in and of itself, 140;
immorality in, 148-150;
effect of democracy upon, 152-156;
humanitarianism in, 156;
the mechanical and industrial age in, 157-160;
lucidity in, 180-182;
appreciation in the reading of, 182-185;
necessity of something more than style in, 186-190;
Nature in, 202-204;
suggestiveness in, 205-215.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 137, 185, 230;
his sonnet on Sumner, 230.
Lowell, James Russell, 105, 108, 122, 124;
on scholarship, 186;
quotation from, 186.
Lucidity, 180-182.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord, on Miss Burney, 62; 65, 79, 96,
131, 166;
quotation from, 62.
Maeterlinck, Maurice, his _Life of the Bee_, 211.
Martineau, Harriet, 103.
Meredith, George, 69;
his obscurity of expression, 180-182;
quotations from, 180, 181.
Metaphors, 28-31.
Mill, John Stuart, a suggestive sentence of, 210.
Milton, John, 13, 74;
his _Lycidas_, 103;
his _Paradise Lost_, 105;
begotten of the classical tradition, 111; 115;
makes no personal appeal, 183, 184.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 16, 58, 59, 217, 218;
quotation from, 59.
Moody, William Vaughn, 156;
his poem on the steam engine, 158, 159;
quotation from, 158, 159.
Morley, John, his definition of literature, 10.
Nature, Thoreau’s interest in, 201, 202;
in literature, 203, 204.
Newman, John Henry, 119.
Nisard, Jean Marie Napoléon Désiré, 104.
Obscurity of expression, 180-182.
Occupation, essential to happiness, 249-256.
Oriole, 174.
Owl, white, 175.
Parkman, Francis, his _Oregon Trail_, 226.
Parnell, Thomas, 220.
Past, the, our feeling for, 232-243, 246.
Pater, Walter, 69, 70;
a mere stylist, 189.
Peacock, 176.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 7, 11;
his art, 17-19;
his _Raven_, 17, 19, 138;
his _Bells_, 19, 138;
the universality of his art, 138;
his _Annabel Lee_, 138;
his appeal only to the sense of artistic forms and verbal melody,
184, 185;
quotation from, 11.
Poetry, relation of eloquence to, 161-167;
the elusive in, 204;
more suggestive than prose, 213.
_See also_ Literature.
Pope, Alexander, 80, 203;
on friends, 240;
quotation from, 240.
Protestantism, 125, 126.
Quintilian, 43.
Rabelais, François, 132.
Raleigh, Prof. Walter, on the business of letters, 62;
his style, 63, 64; 65;
quotations from, 62-65.
Rat, water, 177.
Reading, understanding and appreciation in, 182-185;
the re-reading of books, 216-231.
Renan, Ernest, 32, 50;
his object as a writer, 65; 119;
his _Future of Science_, 161;
on eloquence and poetry, 161; 190;
quotations from, 50, 161, 190.
Robertson, John M., his _Essays toward a Critical Method_, 109.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 55, 56.
Ruskin, John, 5, 79, 90, 119, 123, 144, 145, 147, 163;
quotations from, 144, 147.
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 6;
on Montaigne’s metaphors, 16;
on Rousseau’s _Confessions_, 55; 73, 92-96;
as a critic, 97, 112, 115, 118, 132, 145, 146; 102, 104, 128, 132;
on moral censure in criticism, 145, 146;
quotations from, 16, 55, 145, 146.
_Saturday Review, The_, 4.
Schérer, Edmond Henri Adolphe, 80, 94, 96, 105, 132.
Schiller, his Robbers, 138.
Schopenhauer, Arthur, his use of analogy, 42, 43;
his definition of style, 60; 73, 234, 243;
quotations from, 60, 73, 234.
Science, democracy of, 110;
disinterestedness of, 134, 135;
rarely suggestive, 211.
Scott, Sir Walter, the literary value of his novels, 5, 6, 60, 61;
the eloquence of his poetry, 166;
his lack of understanding of Wordsworth, 182, 183.
Sears, Lorenzo, his _Methods and Principles of Literary Criticism_,
109.
Shairp, Principal John Campbell, 91.
Shakespeare, William, 74;
Voltaire’s verdict upon, 103;
democracy of his art, 111; 136;
the highest type of the disinterested artist, 144; 189;
his _Sonnets_, 208, 209, 211;
quotations from, 136, 212.
Shakespeareana, 24.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 114, 124.
Smith, Sydney, 26.
Sparrow, house (_Passer domesticus_), 175.
Sparrow, song (_Melospiza melodia_), 174.
Sparrow, vesper (_Poœcetes gramineus_), 174.
Spencer, Herbert, 32, 59;
on the philosophy of style, 71;
his style, 206;
quotations from, 32, 71.
Staël, Madame de, 104.
Steam engine in recent poetry, the, 158, 159.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 3;
his _Inland Voyage_, 227;
his _Travels with a Donkey_, 227.
Style, value of, 6-8;
a quality of mind, 14;
nature of, 52, 53;
personality an element of, 54-60;
of the stylist, 61-67;
unconsciousness of good, 68, 69;
simplicity of good, 69-74;
in conversation, 75-77;
aristocracy and democracy in, 77;
variety of, 78, 79.
Stylist, the, 62-67.
Suggestiveness in literature, 205-215.
Swallow, barn (_Hirundo erythrogastra_), 173, 174.
Swallow, cliff (_Petrochelidon lunifrons_), 173, 174.
Swallow, white-bellied, _or_ tree (_Tachycineta bicolor_), 174.
Swallows, supposed hibernation of, 171-173;
feeding young on the wing, 175.
Swift, chimney (_Chœtura pelagica_), 174.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 19;
his style, 66, 70, 71.
Tacitus, his eloquence, 165.
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, 104, 105, 119;
a stimulating but not disinterested critic, 121, 122; 142, 143.
Taste, lapses of, 25, 26;
good and bad, 116-118.
Taylor, Edward Thompson (“Father”), 163.
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 19, 114, 121;
universality of his art, 138, 139;
begotten of the feudal spirit, 154;
his _Maud_, 161;
an example of his eloquence, 166; 181, 184;
his _Crossing the Bar_, 227;
quotation from, 166.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, the title of his _Vanity Fair_, 10, 11;
103.
Thiers, Louis Adolphe, 119.
Thoreau, Henry David, 30, 56, 119;
his wildness, 197-202;
his enthusiasm for the Indian, 198, 199;
the Indian in, 199, 200;
his search for the transcendental in nature, 201, 202;
quotations from, 197-202.
Titlark, 176.
_To the Rainbow_, 166.
Tolstoi, Leo, 39, 90, 119, 121, 134, 149, 155.
Triggs, Oscar Lovell, 110.
Universe, the, 35-38.
Villemain, Abel François, 104.
Vineyard, preparing a new, 254-256.
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet, his style, 69;
his verdict upon Shakespeare, 103, 111; 144;
quotation from, 69.
Waldstein, Dr. Louis, his _The Subconscious Self_, 130, 141;
quotations from, 141.
Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 119, 121.
Water-rat, 177.
Weather, Gilbert White’s observations on the, 177, 178.
White, Gilbert, the longevity of his book, 168;
homeliness of his book, 169;
its human interest, 169, 170;
his genuineness, 170, 171;
his personality, 171;
a type of the true observer, 171;
his observations as to the supposed hibernation of swallows,
171-173;
examples of his truly scientific observations, 174-178;
his alertness and enthusiasm, 175-177;
a magnet for the natural lore of his neighborhood, 176;
his observations on the weather, 178;
his imitators, 179; 218;
quotations from, 170, 173-178.
Whitman, Walt, his published letters, 4; 24, 27;
on style, 66; 67, 75, 78, 99, 110;
his responsibility to æsthetic principles, 117, 118, 119;
his _Leaves of Grass_, 129, 214; 155, 181, 183, 184;
his faith and optimism, 185;
his view of Nature, 204;
his _Two Rivulets_, 204;
on the elusive in poetry, 204;
his suggestiveness, 205, 206, 214; 223, 227;
quotations from, 24, 27, 66, 75, 99, 204; 214.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1;
his poetry, 18, 19; 137.
Wilson, Woodrow, 186.
Woodpecker, 174.
Wordsfold, William B., his _Principles of Criticism_, 109.
Wordsworth, William, 19, 23, 74, 115, 119, 124;
his poetry more personal and less universal than Tennyson’s, 138,
139;
never eloquent, 165; 181;
his attitude toward nature compared with Scott’s, 182, 183; 184,
204, 223, 228;
quotations from, 24, 141.
Work, essential to happiness, 249-256.
Zola, Emile, 112;
his exaggeration of certain things, 149, 150.
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