Baron, Robert, plagiarizes M., 427-8, Blackmore, R., epics by, 48, 90–93, 278 n.
on J. Philips, 99; on prosody, 60, 62.
637 (4).
550, 556, 566, 669, 681, 684.
Barrington, S., 647.
Barrow, I., on M., 18, 21, 27 n.
Barton, R., 432,641.
Batheaston, literary coterie at, 477,
674-5.
Baughan, B. E., 668.
Bayley, C., 664.
Bayley, P., 662, 696 n.
Beatson, J., 653.
Beattie, J., on blank verse, 55; on diction,
64, 116.
Beattie, W., 681 (1844, 1845).
Beatty, A., 400 n.
Beavan, E., 627.
Becket, A., Socrates, 472, 559 n.; The
Genii, 557-8.- 679, 682.
Beckford, W., 694.
Beckman, W., 648.
Beers, H. A., 145, 375 n., 488 n.
Bellamy, D., translates Muscipula, 108,
318,638.
Bellamy, T., 658, 693.
Beloe, W., 690.
Belsham, W., Essays, 13 n., 50, 525 n.
Benger, E., Poems on Slave Trade, 268.
Benson, W., admires M., 41-2; on blank
verse, 45 n., 61.
Bentley, E., 677, 692.
Bentley, R., edits P. L., 29-30, 113 n.,
115 n.; on M.'s fame, 7-8; on Pope's
Homer, 323.
Beresford, B., 694.
Beresford, J., Aeneid, 329, 657.
Berger, P., on Blake, 222 n., 223 n., 225.
Betham, M., 695.
Betson, A., 13 n.
Bickersteth, E. H., 414 n., 668.
Bidlake, J., The Sea, 263.- 628, 658,
693.
Bigg-Wither, L., Odyssey, 339.
Billinge, C., influenced by P. L., 409, 654.
Billson, C. J., Aeneid, 332.
Binyon, L., 668.
Birmingham Halpenny, Upon a, 470, 646.
Birrell, A., 336.
Blackstone, W., Lawyer's Farewel, 449,
Blair, H., on blank verse, 49-50; on M.,
Blair, R., Grave, 46, 77, 271 n., 383-5,
472, 639.
Blake, W., influenced by M., 217-28;
likes Shakespeare's sonnets, 481 n.; not
appreciated in 18th cent., 419, 420,
437; on Wordsworth, 196 n.; unrimed
lyrics by, 564. - 662.
Blamire, S., 675,677.
Blane, W., 668.
Blank verse, before M., 75; distinction
between dramatic and non-dramatic,
76-7, 346; 18th-cent. attitude towards,
18 n., 30 n., 44-53, 75-9, 103, 104 n.,
105, 150, 285; little used by Gray-
Warton group, 243, 436; M. on, 44;
non-Miltonic, 625-6; not understood,
55; popularity of, in 18th cent., 45-9;
preferred for long, serious poems, 49;
receipt for, 632 (1803); sonnets in,
51 n., 496 n.; suitable for translations?,
183, 324, 326 n., 327, 356, 358; Thom-
son's influence on vogue of, 128.
Bloomfield, N., Essay on War, 399 n.
Boaden, J., 661.
Boileau, N., 19, 20, 38, 360 n., 632 (1683).
Bolland, W., 659, 660 (2).
Booker, L., Hop-Garden, 365-7, 371-2;
Knowle Hill, 254 n.; Malvern, 254. -
655 (2), 656 n., 660 (2), 663, 682.
Boothby, Sir B., 687.
Boscawen, W., 676, 678.
Boswell, J., 452, 498, 686.
Boswell, J., the younger, 481.
Bounden, J., 663.
Bouton, A. L., 101 n.
Bowden, S., 627, 671.
Bowdler, J., 654.
Bowick, J., 679.
Bowles, W. L., 80 n., 159, 253, 462,
513 n.; borrows from Comus, 556;
influenced by P. L., 256–7; sonnets of,
488, 499 n., 510-14, 517, 518, 519, 529.
·628, 660, 662 (2), 664, 665, 666,
667 (2), 679, 681 (2), 689.
Brooke, H., Constantia, 448. — 642, 670.
Broome, W., Homer, 16, 106; influenced
by Lycidas, 426; influenced by Pen.,
445-6.639,669.
Broughton, B., Views, 271 n., 661.
Brown, James, D. D., Britain Preserved,
284 n., 660.
Brown, James (freemason), 690.
Brown, John, D.D., poem on moonlight,
242-3.643, 673.
Brown, N., North-Country Wedding, 429 n.,
638.
Brown, T., Lectures on the Mind, 401;
Renovation of India, 401.- 663 (2),
696 n.
Browne, I. H., De Animi Immortalitate,
343; Pipe of Tobacco, 450-51. - 640,
669, 672.
Browne, M., imitates Lycidas, 425-6,
550; poem to, 641 (1738). — 626, 629
(2), 639, 641, 643, 680.
Bruce, M., admires Thomson, 127; influ-
enced by P. L., 246–7. — 649, 650, 680,
682.
Bryant, J., Antient Mythology, 345, 652.
Bryant, W. C., Homer, 339-40.
Brydges, S. E., on M.'s sonnets, 482 n.,
508; on the sonnet, 499, 522, 523; son-
nets of, 508-9.— 662, 666, 676, 688,
697.
Bryson, W. A., 631, 681 (1812).
Burges, J. B., Exodiad, 287; Richard I,
278 n. 661, 663.
Burgess, —, 674.
Burghclere, Lord, Georgics, 333-4.
Burgoyne, General, 676.
Burke, E., admires Young, 158; elaborate
style of, 67, 143; praises M., 9-10, 27.
Burlesque blank-verse poetry, 15, 96-100,
107-8, 159 n., 163-5, 272 n., 315-22,
363-4, 380-81.
Burnet, G., praises P. L., 12.
Burney, C., 688.
Burney, F., 284, 364, 551 n.
Burns, R., 499, 506, 679 (1811), 681
(1796); admires Satan, 42.691.
Burrell, Lady S., Thymbriad, 345-6.
657, 677.
Burt, T. S., Aeneid, 330 n.
Busby, T., Lucretius, 343 n.
Bushe, A., Socrates, 346, 646.
Butt, G., 648.
Butt, T., 676.
Byrom, J., 30, 344.
Byron, Lord, 28 n., 310 n., 315, 316, 413;
description of the sea, 263; influenced
by P. L., 231-2; Manfred, 308; narra-
tive poems by, 279; on Grahame,
266 n.; on Milman, 308 n.; on Sotheby,
304 n.; on the Cottles, 297, 298 n.; on
the epic, 277; Pollok on, 411; sonnets
of, 536-7. 665, 681 (1816).
Bysshe, E., Art of Poetry, 55, 56, 58, 59,
60, 423.
Caldcleugh, W. G., Iliad, 339.
Callander, J., 649.
Callimachus, imitated, 391; translated,
105, 344.
Cambridge, M. popular at, 27-8, 404-5,
626 (1748), 640 (1733), 644 (1751), 648
(1761, 1762), 649 (1763), 670–71 (1748),
671 (1755), 672 (1761), 673 (1763), 680
(1751).
Campbell, L., Aeschylus, 350; Sophocles,
325 n., 350. - 668 (2).
Campbell, T., 337 n., 393, 666, 667, 681.
Campion, T., 563 n., 565.
Canning, G., 659.
Buchanan, J., Six Books of P. L., 26-7, Capell, E., Iliad, 335 n.
Buckingham, Duke of, Essay on Poetry,
Budworth, J., Windermere, 274 n.
Bulkeley, J., 638.
Burges, G., Ajax, 350, 667.
Carey, G. S., 632.
Carey, H., 626, 639.
Carlisle, Earl of, 661, 695.
Carnarvon, Earl of, Odyssey, 340.
Carr, J., Filial Piety, 320, 649.
Carr, W. W., 681, 687.
sonnet to, 546 n. — 677 (2), 680, 690.
Coleridge, Sara, 563, 684.
Collier, J. P., 75 n., 342 n.
Cary, H. F., 260 n., 276; Dante, 354-6;
Mountain Seat, 255; sonnets of,
— 657, 659, 676, 691.
Carysfort, Earl of, Revenge of Guendolen,
306, 655.
Casa, G. della, sonnets of, 485 n.
Case, W., 660, 661, 695.
Casimir, translated, 563, 651 (1772).
Cervantes, M. de, 508 n.
Cessières, G. de, 360 n.
Chalmers, A., 66 n., 272 n.
Chamberlayne, J., 632.
Chamberlin, M., 410 n., 661 (2).
Chandler, M., 629.
Chapone, H. M., 496, 670, 686.
Chatterton, T., Keats on, 207; other po-
ems on, 553, 680 (1790 w.), 683 (1785).
Chaucer, G., 441, 448, 461; Mason imi-
tates, 551; modernized, 670 (1741);
Wordsworth on, 187.
Cheetham, R. F., Odes, 502, 694.
Children, G., 647.
Choheleth, 407, 650.
Churchill, C., parodies imitations of All.
and Pen., 467-8; ridicules Ogilvie,
396-7. — 672.
Cibber, T., Lives, 22, 142, 425.
Clare, J., Autumn, 563; similar to Bamp-
Cockburn, W., 662 (2).
Cockings, G., epics by, 278 n.
Cole, J., 688.
Cole, T., Life of Hubert, 271 n., 658.
Coleridge, H., on Mason, 377.
Coleridge, S. T., Ancient Mariner criti-
cized, 254; friend of J. Cottle, 297;
influenced by All. and Pen., 473; influ-
enced by Lycidas, 553; on Bowles, 510,
514 n.; on Petrarch, 485; on the epic,
297; on the sonnet, 67, 486 n., 516,
522; on Thomson, 126; part in Joan
of Arc, 288; praises Crowe, 253; son-
Collins, W., 441, 442; admires Thomson,
128; avoids blank verse, couplets,
and long poems, 434-6; friend of J.
Warton, 462, 566; influence of, 467,
469, 538, 562, 564-5, 682; influ-
enced by All. and Pen., 431, 453-7;
not appreciated in 18th cent., 419;
praised, 251 n., 564, 565 n.; praises M.,
37; similar to Akenside, 392; To Even-
ing, 438, 561-2, 564-5; uses Nativity
meter, 565-6. — 669, 670, 682, 684.
Colman, G., adapts Comus, 432-3; paro-
dies by, 467, 672.
Colombine, P., 694.
Cooper, J. G., Estimate of Life, 451; Power
of Harmony, 271 n., 393-4, 471 n.
642, 670.
Cooper, L., 184 n., 198 n., 607 n.
Coote, R., 634.
Cornhill, S., 658.
Cory, H., 569 n.
Cotgrave, J., Treasury of Wit, 423.
Cotter, G. S., 627.
Cottle, J., Dartmoor, 258 n.; epics by,
297-300; friendship with lake poets,
288, 297; Malvern, 254; on poetic dic-
tion, 299.631, 660, 661, 664, 665,
681 (1795).
Cotton, C., sonnets of, 489 n.
Couplet, the heroic, conventionalizing in-
fluence of, 237, 246; little used by the
Gray-Warton-Collins group, 243, 434;
not used in best 18th-cent. descriptive
poetry, 237 n. See also Blank verse,
Rime.
Courtenay, H., 647, 648 (2).
Courtier, P. L., Pleasures of Solitude, 393,
399 n.; Revolutions, 399 n. — 658, 678,
694.
Coventry, F., 671.
Coward, W., 13 n.
Cowley, A., 117, 441, 442.
Cowley, H., 278 n., 630.
Cowper, A., on rime, 52 n.
Cowper, W., 656 (1788 w.); admiration for
M., 6, 10, 21, 24 n., 25 n., 26, 161-3,
175-6; borrowings from M., 603-6;
Coleridge on, 514 n.; diction of,
167-9, 172 n., 175-6, 606; Four Ages,
173; Homer, 170-72, 325, 334, 335-7,
338, 340; On Finding Heel of a Shoe,
163; on Johnson's Milton, 31, 162;
on J. Philips, 96; on parentheses,
169; on Pope, 58; on Warton's Mil-
ton, 32, 162, 175; prosody of, 63, 175;
remarkable memory of, 161; sonnets
of, 510; Thunder Storm, 175 n.; To
the Halibut, 172 n.; translates Adamo,
174; translates M.'s Latin poems,
163, 172 n.; Yardley Oak, 173. — 643,
650, 654, 655 (2), 656, 657 (3), 660,
690.
Task, 46, 69, 149, 161-76, 177, 331;
aphoristic style of, 158, 166 n.; influ-
ence of, 254, 259, 260, 261 n., 265,
273, 291, 519 n., 656 (Aikin).
Cowper, W., M.D., Il Penseroso, 448, 670.
Crabbe, G., influenced by M., 471 n.; on
J. Philips, 96.- 653.
Cranch, C. P., Aeneid, 326 n., 332.
Crane, R. S., 69 n.
Cranwell, J., 343 n.
Crawford, C., The Revolution, 284.
627,653,664.
Creech, T., Lucretius, 342.
Crespigny, Lady Champion de, 681
(1810).
Deare, J. R., Georgics, 328, 664.
Defoe, D., 445; influenced by P. L., 15,
100-101; praises M., 15. — 637.
Deism, influence of, 101 n., 393-6.
Delany, Mrs., oratorio from P. L., 29.
Delille, J., 360 n., 634 (1789).
Della Cruscans, the, 505, 515, 519, 525,
538-40, 681 (1788).
Denham, J., Coopers Hill, 237, 248, 627.
Dennis, J., 121, 122, 432; admires M.,
5, 7, 37, 38; influenced by M., 93-5,
115 n., 423; on poetry, 33, 39. — 637
(3).
Cririe, J., descriptive poems, 271 n., 656, Dennis, J., Age of Pope, 127, 488 n.
Denton, T., 681 (1755).
Derby, Earl of, Iliad, 325, 338, 668.
Dermody, T., 553, 656, 680, 691.
Descriptive poetry of 18th cent., 236–75;
appreciation of wild nature in, 255,
258, 263, 265, 268-9, 365, 396 n.; close
observation in, 255-6, 262, 264-5, 269;
contemporary attitude towards, 272–3;
conventionality of, no indication of in-
difference to nature, 236, 240-41;
couplet not used in the best, 237 n.;
descriptions in sonnets, 497-548; limi-
tations of, 272; neglect of humble
beauty in, 248; observation rarely
united with poetic power in, 263-4;
parodied, 272 n.; turgidity of, 236-8,
256. See also Cowper, W., Thomson, J.,
Wordsworth, W., and Topographical
poems.
De Sélincourt, E., on Keats, 202, 203 n.,
205-6 n., 211 n., 212 n., 214, 538, 540 n.,
541 n., 620 n.
Despréaux, J. E., 360 n.
De Vere, A., Jr., sonnets of, 543, 547.—
668.
De Vere, A., Sr., sonnets of, 542.
Diaper, W., 633.
Dibdin, T. F., Bibliography, 379. — 664,
695.
Dibdin, T. J., adapts Comus, 432-3.
Diction, 18th-cent. ideas on, 141-3; M.'s
influence on, 63-8 (see also Cowper,
Keats, Pope, Thomson, Warton, T., Jr.,
Wordsworth, Young); words familiar
to 17th and 19th centuries unknown to
18th, 64, 116.
Didactic poetry, esteemed in 18th cent.,
359, 360. See also Technical treatises.
Dimond, W., 696.
praises Good's Lucretius, 343 n. — 665,
678,692.
Draper, J. W., 323 n., 552 n.
Draper, W. H., Morning Walk, 248 n.,
644.
Drummond, G. H., 689.
Drummond, T., 645.
Drummond, Sir W., Odin. 46 n., 69, 306–
8,665.
Drummond, W. H., Clontarf, 255, 256 n.;
Lucretius, 343 n.; Pleasures of Benevo-
lence, 393; Trafalgar, 278 n. — 631,
665, 667.
Dryden, J., 23, 24, 77, 114, 191, 343; in-
fluence of, 203 n., 552; Miscellany, 420;
on M., 14, 20, 162, 421; on rimed trans-
lations, 324; St. Cecilia, 10; State of
Innocence, 118-20.
Duck, S., 359, 627.
Dufresnoy, C. A., 343, 360 n.
Duick, J., 629.
Dunbar, Mrs. A. M., 184 n., 607 n.
Duncan, J., Essay on Happiness, 394, 648.
Duncombe, J., praises M., 9 n., 13 n.
633 (1736-54), 686.
Duncombe, Mrs. See Highmore, S.
Duncombe, W., quotes Lycidas, 426,
427 n.
Dunkin, W., 632,639.
Dunster, C., Homer, 336 n.; St. James's
Street, 271 n. 656, 687.
Dupré de St. Maur, translates P. L., 35-
Durante, C., 360 n., 632 (1686).
D'Urfey, T., 625.
Dwight, T., 278 n., 628 n.
Dodd, Dr. W., 317, 498; Explanation of Dyer, G., on personification, 441 n.; on
Milton, 25, 34; influenced by M.,
the monody, 553 n.
407-
9. — 643, 646, 647, 650, 653, 672 (2),
673, 686.
Dodsley, R., "Dodsley's Miscellany,"
434, 492, 495, 496-7; influenced by M.,
367, 448-9; Museum, 21–2, 39. — 633,
644 (2), 669, 670.
Doig, D., 630.
Donoghue, J., 659, 695,
Doughty, C. M., 668.
Douglas, J., answers Lauder, 30.
Downman, H., Infancy, 377-8; sonnets
of, 471, 495 n., 521. — 647, 652, 656,|
662, 672, 673, 677, 686.
Doyne, P., Delivery of Jerusalem, 356 n.,
647 n.
Drake, N., on blank verse, 47 n.; on the
sonnet, 481, 522 n.; praises All. and
Pen., 10; praises Cumberland's Cal-
vary, 286; praises Dyer's Fleece, 367 n.;
– 660 (2), 661 (2),
662, 677, 679, 681 (1802), 683, 696 n.
Dyer, J., Country Walk, 446-7; Fleece,
141, 240, 241 n., 251, 367-72, 374,
381 n., 389 n.; Grongar Hill, 124, 240,
241 n., 248, 251, 368, 420, 446–7, 452 n.;
Ruins of Rome, 240-41, 251, 370.—641,
646, 669.
Earle, W. B., 648, 672.
Edgeworth, R. L., Poetry Explained, 26,32.
Edginton, G. W., Odyssey, 339, 668.
Edridge, R., 662.
Edwards, T., 389 n.; sonnets of, 492-6,
498, 501 n., 522 n., 527, 685.
Eighteenth century, attitude towards
neo-classic standards in, 20, 38-9; con-
ventionality and conservatism of, 87,
237; extensive use of poetry in, 359;
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