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252 n., 421, 427; on Dyer, 367 n.;
on Thomson's diction, 142, 143.-653,
673,686.

Scott, T., 693.

Scott, W., 279, 310 n., 503; on Dryden,

119, 120 n.; praises Grahame, 266 n.
Seaton, T., gives prize for religious poetry,
404-5.

Seccombe, T., 127.

Sedgwick, H. D., on translation, 325, 327.
Sedley, C., 685.

Sélincourt. See De Sélincourt.
Seward, A., admires M.'s minor poems,
10, 25; ignorant of Italian sonnets,
485; on blank verse, 45; on C. Smith's
sonnets, 503 n.; on Elizabethan son-
nets, 482; on Johnson's Milton, 32;
on M.'s sonnets, 482, 500 n., 501; on
Southey, 291; on the sonnet, 484 n.,
487, 500, 522, 524, 525; prose style of,
67, 143; sonnets of, 499-502, 516, 520,
523 n.630, 634, 655, 656, 659, 661
(2), 662, 675 (2), 680, 681 (1781), 686.
Sewell, G., 96, 99.
Sewell, M., 696 n.

Sewell, W., translations by, 330 n., 667
and n.

Shaftesbury, third earl of, 101 n., 124,

388, 394, 395 n.; praises P. L., 16.
Shakespeare, W., diction of, criticized,

142; editions of, 4-5; 18th-cent.
attitude towards, 18 n., 20 n., 24,
25, 114; influence of, 238 n., 331-2,
384; rimed, 46; vocabulary of, 195;
Wordsworth on, 180, 181-2, 187.
sonnets of, 478, 479, 480; Blake on,

481 n.; influence of, 491, 501 n.,
506 n., 523, 524, 540, 541; Keats on,
540; not liked in 18th cent., 480-82,
501 n.; Wordsworth on, 534 n.

Sharp, J., 644.

Sharp, W., 647.

Sharpe, J., 659.

Shaw, C., 681 (1768).

Shelley, H. C., on Young, 149 n.
Shelley, P. B., admires M., 42; Adonais,
555; influence on Byron, 536; influ-
enced by All., 474-5, by Nativity, 567, |
by P. L., 228-31; on Endymion, 201;
sonnets of, 537.—665 (2), 679, 684 (2). |
Shenstone, W., blank verse of, 144, 320-
21; influence on Jago, 249; monody on,
681 (1791). — 648.
Shepherd, R., Nuptials, 372-3; on the
647, 663, 672.

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ode, 435.
Shepherd, T. R., 678.

Sherburn, G., 421 n., 422 n., 423 n.,

426 n., 429 n., 447 n., 449 n.

Sheridan, E., 680.

Sheridan, R. B., 629, 681 (1779, 1791).
Sheridan, T., quotes P. L., 11 n.

Sherive, C. H., 661, 696.

Shiells, R., Marriage, 372, 643.
Shillito, C., 691.

Shipley, J., 564 n., 641.
Shipman, T., on P. L., 45 n.
Shippen, W., Moderation Displayed, 98 n.
Shoel, T., 628, 631.

Sibthorp, H., 648.

Siddons, S., abridges P. L., 26.
Sidney, P., sonnets of, 478 n., 479, 480;
unrimed lyric by, 563 n.

Singleton, J., West-Indian Islands, 257–8,
650.
Singleton, R. C., Virgil, 330, 667.
Six, J., 688.

Skelton, A., 692.

Skene, G., Donald Bane, 301, 659.
Skurray, F., 628.

Smart, C., Hop-Garden, 365-6, 374, 380 n.,
381 n., 471 n.; praises All. and Pen.,
10, 366; praises Dryden and Pope,
10; Song to David, 366, 415 n., 419,
420, 437, 561.- 643, 644 (3), 645, 671.
Smart, J. S., on M.'s. sonnets, 485 n.,
487 n.

Smedley, E., 631.

Smith, A., on blank verse, 47, 50 n.
Smith, C., Beachy Head, 255, 256 n.; on
the sonnet, 484 n., 522; sonnets of,
499 n., 502, 503-4, 515, 517 n., 518,
519-20, 523, 527 n.; sonnets of, Words-
worth on, 535 n. — 657, 663, 689.
Smith, E., 52 n., 78, 681 (1751).
Smith, E. F., 678.

Smith, J., 634.

Smith, M., Vision, 95–6, 637.

Smith, T., 695.

Smith, W., 666.

Smith, Sir W. C., 675.

Smollett, T., Burlesque Ode, 552 n. — 674.
Smyth, P., 658.

Smyth, W., 678.
Snart, C., 665.
Snell, P., 648.

Snyder, E. D., 117 n.
Soames, W., 632.

Somervile, W., Chace, 46 n., 125, 249,
361-3, 368, 374, nature in, 239-40; on
Philips, 361; on Thomson, 38 n., 361;
other poems by, 363.-639, 640,
641 (2).

Sonnet, the, bipartite structure of, 486–7,

532-4; Cowper on, 521 n.; form of,
should follow thought, 487; general
indifference to laws of, 524-5, 533 n.;
poor opinion of, in 18th cent., 503,
520-23, 525-6, 535 n.; Wordsworth
on, 529, 532-4, 535 n.
the 18th-cent., 478-528; a phase of the
romantic movement, 526; bibliog-
raphy of, 685-97; characteristics
of, 519-28; diction of, criticized,
66-7, 523; few printed before 1775,
499, 525; few written before 1740,
488-9, 499; in blank verse, 51 n.,
496 n.; in magazines, 499; in novels,
499, 502 n., 504; irregular forms
opposed, 484-5, 500, 518, 524; little
studied, 478, 488; non-Miltonic type
of, 502-5, 519; pensiveness of, 497–
520, 535; Petrarchan form of, dis-
liked, 500 n., 516, 522-3, 524; slow
use of Shakespearean rime-scheme in,
524; subjects treated in, 520; table
of, 523; vogue of, 498-9, 523; vogue
of, due to Milton's minor poems,
526-7.

the Elizabethan, 478-80; ignorance of
and indifference to, in 18th cent.,
480-82; influence of, 492, 517, 538,
540-41. See Shakespeare, Spenser.
the Italian, influence of, 492, 493-4,
536-7, 538, 540, 541-2; little read
in 18th cent., 485, 501 n.; transla-
tions of, 485-6, 489 n., 508 n., 537.
Sonnets in imitation of M.'s, 489, 696–7.
Sophocles, translated, 346–51.
Sophronia, 283 n., 645.

Sotheby, W., Saul, 263 n., 304 n.; Tour
through Wales, 263.-630, 656, 661,
663,691.

Southey, R., 26 n., 299, 308, 326; epics
of, 276, 279, 287-93; fondness for
liberty, 289-93; indifferent to M., 293,
559 n., 565 n.; influenced by Akenside,
292, 388 n., 391; influenced by All. and
Pen., 473 n.; Inscriptions, 292; on
Bampfylde, 506; on Bowles, 518; on
Brydges, 509; on Collins, 565 n.; on
Grahame, 266 n.; on Hurdis, 262 n.;
on Russell, 507; on Samor, 308; on
W.H. Roberts, 285; sonnets of, 518-19;
Thalaba, 565; unrimed lyrics by, 565.
— 657, 658, 659 (3), 660, 664, 666,
677, 683, 693.

Spectator. See Addison, J.
Spence, J., 17, 647, 648.

Spenser, E., Amoretti, 478, 480, 482,
501 n., 502, influence of, 491, 493-4,
508 n., 517, 523-4, 532, 540; 18th-
cent. attitude to, 20 n., 24, 39; has
less influence in 18th cent. than M.,
435; praised, 16, 130, 187, 199, 443,
454; rimeless sonnets of, 563 n.
Faerie Queene, diction of, 64, 66 n., 67;
18th-cent. editions of, 4; in couplets
and in blank verse, 46; influence of,
117, 141 n., 178 n., 201, 291, 385,
389 n., 461, 466, 508 n., 517, 538,
540, 551, 673 (1763), 681 (1751);
stanza not appreciated, 56, 58, 437.
Standen, J., To Dr. Watts, 103, 637.
Steele, A., 672.

Steele, R., on M., 23, 422.
Steere, R., 625 n.
Steevens, G., 480-81, 521.
Stephen, L., 367.
Stephens, E., 642, 644.
Sterling, G., sonnet of, 546.
Sterling, J., 654, 688.
Stevens, W. B., 654, 675, 689.
Stevenson, M., sonnets of, 488 n.
Stillingfleet, B., oratorio from P. L., 29 n.;
sonnets of, 491. — 626, 633, 680 n., 685.
Stockdale, M. R., 695.

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influenced by J. Philips, 140-41; in-
fluenced by M., 131-46, 446; influ-
enced by Virgil, 140; Liberty, 133 n.,
146-7, 241, 383; Memory of Con-
greve, 147 n.; on M., 19, 36-7, 131;
poems to, 399 n., 640 (1736), 641
(1739), 658 (1796, two); preface to
Areopagitica, 41, 131; To Delacour,
147 n.; To Memory of Newton, 383;
translates Virgil, 327 n.-— - 625, 638
(2), 639 (3), 640 (2), 669 (2).
Seasons, diction of, 134-8; excellences
of, 147-8, 149; feeling for nature in,
124-5, 147-8; humorous picture of
an orgy in, 140 n., 316; influence of,
49, 125, 127-8, 149, 237, 238, 239,
241 n., 247, 258, 259, 261 n., 264, 267,
269-70, 273, 361, 365, 368, 390, 397,
399 n., 664 (Bayley); Pope's and
Lyttelton's part in, 118 n.; popu-
larity of, 24, 26, 46, 124-8, 142 n.,
269 n., 273, 361; prosody of, 145-6;
significance of, 123-5, 237, 273; tur-
gidity of, 136-45.

Thorn, R. J., 300 n., 657 (2), 660.
Thornhill, W. J., Aeneid, 330-31, 668.
Thou, J. A. de, 360 n.
Thrale, Mrs. H., 505 n.
Tickell, R., 676, 692.

Tickell, T., edits P. L., 17. — 632.
Tighe, M., 695.

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Thomas, B., 672.

Thomas, Edward, 647.

Thomas, Edmund, 648.

Thomas, L. (?), 682 n.

Tomlinson, C., 488.

Tonson, J., 5.

Thomas, W., Young, 154, 155, 156 n., Topographical poems, in blank verse,

158 n., 590 n.

Thompson, F., 194-5, 555-

Thompson, G., translations by, 336, 344,
661.

Thompson, W., of Trinity College, Dub-
lin, Job, 112, 639.

Thompson, W., of Queen's College, Ox-

ford, Nativity, 429 n.; on Glover, 281;
Sickness, 158 n., 385. — 642, 649, 673,
686.

Thomson, A., 634, 659, 660, 692.
Thomson, J., 20 n., 76 n., 77, 123-48,
165, 167, 177, 236; borrowings from
M., 131, 425, 429, 583–90; Britannia,
383; Castle of Indolence, 69, 124, 365;
criticizes Augustan poetry, 129–30;

247-58; not known to be Miltonic,
627-31.

Tovey, D. C., on Gray, 453 n., 459.
Townsend, G., Armageddon, 410 n., 665.
Toynbee, P., 109 n.; Dante in English,
352-6, 490 n.

Translations, difficulties of, 324; free,

opposed, 564; improvement in, 357-8;
in blank verse, 104-7, 323-58; M.'s in-
fluence on, unfortunate, 356; requisites
of good, 324; unsatisfactory character
of, 356-7. See also Blank verse, Неха-
meter, Prose, Rime.
Trapaud, E., 651 n.

Trapp, J., 17, 425; Virgil, 106, 637.
Travis, G., 673.

Tripe, A., 633.

Trollope, A. W., 658.

Tucker, W. J., 628.

Turberville, G., Ovid, 342 n.
Turnbull, G., 656, 676.
Twining, T., 32 n., 50.
Twiss, H., parodies All., 467, 679.
Tyson, M., 648, 672, 673.
Tytler, A. F., 689.

Tytler, H. W., 633 (1710).

Upton, W., 632, 690.

Valpy, R., 693.

Vanhomrigh, Miss, 673.

Vanière, J., Praedium Rusticum, 360 n.,
366, 633 (1736–54).

Vauxhall, 28.

Vega, Lope de, 492 n., 659 (1797).
Venables, G. S., 666.

"Vicarius," Sketches of Beauty, 401, 655.
Victor, B., 673.

Vida, M. G., 360 n., 633 (1723, 1725,
1736-54), 634 (Jones).
Vincent, J., Fowling, 379, 664.
Virgil, Aeneid, influence of, 91, 183, 278;
Georgics, influence of, 140, 183, 269, 360,
366, 374; more often translated than
Homer, 327, 334; thought no greater
than M., 8, 17-18, 20-22, 163, 386, 397,
501; translations of, 104-6, 172 n.,
327-34.

Vision, 51 n., 95, 637.

Visitations of the Almighty, 406, 646.
Vivian, T., translations by, 335, 659.
Voltaire, 276 n., 283, 284 n., 341 n.; on
M., 20.

Vyse, W., 647, 682.

Wakefield, G., 573 n., 678.
Walker, J., 630.

Walker, W. S., 26 n.; translations by,
344, 350, 351.- 664, 667.
Wall, W. E., Christ Crucified, 309, 666.
Wallace, G., Prospects, 253, 651.
Waller, W., contrasted with M., 6, 13 n.
Walpole, H., on Batheaston, 477; on
Johnson's Milton, 32 n.; on M., 13 n.,
23; on the epic, 277-8, 279; on Young,
158-9.-686.

Walsh, W., ignores Lycidas, 425; sonnet
by, 488, 489 n.

Walters, D., 630.

Walters, J., 654, 675.

War, 399, 642 n.

Warburton, W., 480, 494; on M., 6, 18, 21,

22-3, 43, 426, 432; on M.'s "adorers,"
6; translates Addison, 108, 318, 638.
Ward, J., 628.

Warton, John, 657.

Warton, Joseph, 431, 441, 442; avoids
couplets, blank verse, and long poems,
243, 434-6; encourages Bowles, 462,
513; Enthusiast, 243-4, 245; Essay on
Pope, 5, 12-13, 435 n., 462; favors
glowing style, 142; imitates M.'s trans-
lation from Horace, 561; on M., 9 n.,
22; on moralizing in verse, 435; paro-
died, 467; says All. and Pen. neglected,
430; uses Nativity meter, 566; verses
to, 661 (1800), 681 (1800). — 626, 641,
653, 660, 670, 678, 682, 683, 684.
Warton, T., Jr., 28 n., 115, 442, 680
(1790); avoids couplets, blank verse,
and long poems, 243, 434-6; borrowings
from M., 114, 595-602; diction of, 66,
602; editor of M.'s minor poems, 5 n.,
57, 463; influenced by All. and Pen.,
463-7; love of nature, 245, 465–6, 497;
on M., 23, 32, 43, 57, 162, 175; on the
Spenserian stanza, 437; Oxford Ale,
317; parodied, 467, 469; Pleasures of
Melancholy, 244-5, 393, 464, 674 (1774);
sonnets of, 496-8; sonnets of, influence
of, 498, 506 n., 507-8, 509 n., 512-13,
519 n., 529; translates Horace, 561;
unacquainted with early blank verse,
121 n., 431 n.; uninfluenced by most
early literature, 87-8.-642 (2), 643,
671 (2), 673, 680, 683, 686.

Warton, T., Jr. (?), Five Pastoral Eclogues,
245-6.

Warton, T., Sr., 243, 435-6, 441; brings

M. to Pope's attention (?), 115 n.;
fond of the couplet, 434; influence on
his sons, 431, 461, 498 n., 560-61; in-
fluenced by M., 461-2, 560–61. — 626,
642, 670, 682 (2).

Warwick, T., 514, 688.

Watts, I., borrows from Lycidas, 423, 425,

550; influenced by P. L., 62, 102–4,
124, 404; on M., 37, 38, 76, 103; on
prosody, 57, 60, 61; poems to, 625
(1706), 637 (1706), 643 (1750); popu-
larity of, 403; unrimed lyric by, 564 n.
-625, 638.

Way, A. S., translations by, 358.
Webb, D., criticizes couplet, 60–61; on
M., II n.,37.

Webb, F., Somerset, 258, 664.
Weekes, N., Barbados, 257-8, 644.
Wells, J. E., 583 n.

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Westby, S., 682.

Weston, J., 656, 690, 696.
Weston, S., 692, 696.

Whalley, T. S., 630.

Whateley, M., 649, 693.

Whately, E., on Wordsworth, 182, 190 n.,
196 n.

Whiffen, E. T., 558-9.

Whigs, M. admired by, 40-42.
"Whistlecraft." See Frere, J. H.
White, H., on the sonnet, 482 n., 484 n.
White, H. Kirke, 472, 631, 661, 662, 678
(2), 683, 696.

White, T. H., 31.

Whitehead, W., Hymn, 392; on rime,
44; parodies Young, 159 n.—644, 652,
675.

Whitehouse, J., translates Stolberg, 352.
— 655, 661, 676, 683, 690.
Whitelaw, R., Sophocles, 349, 668.
Whitfield, H., 663.

Whitman, W., Leaves of Grass, 122, 128.
Wigglesworth, M., Day of Doom, 403.
Wilcocke, S., Britannia, 302, 659.
Wilde, O., sonnets of, 545-6.
Wilkie, W., Epigoniad, 278 n.
Wilks, Rev. Mr., 643.
Williams, E., 693.

Williams, H. M., sonnets of, 499, 514,
535 n., 688.

Williams, J., 656.

Williams, T. C., Virgil, 333, 334.
Williams, W., of Gray's Inn, Redemption,
410 n.,659.

Williams, W., of Halifax, 629, 647 n.
Wills, J., Art of Painting, 343, 644.
Wilson, J., of Lanarkshire, 629.
Wilson, "Professor," 266 n., 337.
Winchilsea, Countess of, Nocturnal Rev-
erie, 124; parodies M., 15 n., 108, 638.
Wingfield, R., 626.
Winstanley, J., 626, 641.

Wisdom, 406 n., 643.

Wither, G., Shepherd's Hunting, 442.
Witt, E. E., Odyssey, 339, 668.
Wodhull, M., Euripides, 348–9, 654.
Wogan, C., 640.
Wolcot, J., 686.

Wollaston, W., on rime, 52.

Woodford, S.,on blank verse, 45 n., 55 n.;
on P. L., 12 n.; sonnets of, 489 n.
Woodhouse, J., 629, 630.
Woodhouslee, Lord. See Tytler, A. F.
Woodley, G., 628, 631.

Wordsworth, W., 80 n., 166, 177–200, 384,
388-90, 400 n., 503, 667 (1851); ad-
mires Bowles, 511 n., 535 n.; A little
onward lend," 189; Artegal and Elidure,
184; borrowings from M., 183-4, 607-
20; borrows from Cottle, 254; borrows
from Russell, 507; borrows from Symp-
son, 247; change in descriptive poetry
of, 271-2; Convention of Cintra, 180,
184; Cumberland Beggar, 194; debt to
his predecessors, 186-7, 197, 236;
Descriptive Sketches, 236, 272; diction
of, 193-9, 618-20; early blank verse of,
affected by his theories, 186 n.; Excur-
sion, 185-98; Home at Grasmere, 185–6,
192 n., 193 n., 196 n.; ideas on diction
discussed, 298-9; Kilchurn Castle, 185,
192 n.; not first to make English lakes
known, 273 n.; Ode to Duty, 441; on
Brydges, 509; on Cary's Dante, 354;
on Crowe, 253; on Dyer, 186 n., 367,
372; on M., 179-83, 187, 198, 431 n.;
on M.'s sonnets, 482, 529, 532-3; on
Shakespeare's sonnets, 534 n.; on the
sonnet, 522, 525, 535 n.; on Thomson,
124 n., 128, 186 n.; Prelude, 180, 186-
98; Recluse, 186, 193 n.; significance
of, in development of descriptive poetry
273-5; sonnets of, 179-80, 528-36;
sonnets of, influence of, 535-6, 537, 542,
543, 545 n.; sonnet, London, 1802, 179–
80; stilted conversation of, 190, 196 n.;
To Enterprise, 473-4; translations by,
357; wherein like M., 178-9; Yew-
Trees, 173, 185, 192 n. — 637 n., 658,
660, 661 (2), 662, 665 (5), 666 (2), 667,
679, 685 n., 689, 697.
World, The, 505.

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Woty, W., burlesque poetry by, 316-17,

318-19, 471 n.; translates Gessner, 352.
— 632, 646 (3), 647 (2), 648, 649, 651,
671, 672, 674, 682.

Wrangham, F., 658, 661, 663, 692.
Wray, D., 494.

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