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Abercrombie, Lascelles, on Romanticism 423 Alanus de Insulis, Liber Parabolorum 53 Ackroyd, Freda (Alun Lewis’smistress)867, 868 Albion Village Press 971 Acland, Henry 677 Aldhelm, St 16 Actaeon, myth of, Spenser’s use 152 Aldington, Richard 728, 787, 798 Adam, Milton’s presentation in Paradise Lost and Greek culture 804 265–6, 267 and Imagism 803 Adams, Barbara, on Laura Riding 898, 903 works Adams, Eddie (photographer) 829 ‘1915’ 804 Addison, Joseph 335, 383 ‘Choricos’ 796 Adlington, Richard, ‘In the Via Sistina’ 797 ‘To a Greek Marble’ 796 ‘advocacy’ texts 359 ‘Whitechapel’ 804 Advocates’ MS 19.2.1 (Auchinleck MS; Alexander, Michael 9, 24 National Library of Scotland alexandrines (Edinburgh)) 46 Auden’s use of 851 Aengus (Celtic bard) 768 Dowson’s use 699 Aeschylus Drayton’s use 163 works Emily Brontë’s use 637 Oresteia,influence on Shelley 533 Sidney’s use 158 Prometheus Bound 273, 620 Alice, Lady (child of Earl of Bridgewater), part aesthetic franchising 717 in Comus 240 Aesthetic Movement 649, 698 allegiance, complexities, addressed by Horace aestheticism 224 Dryden’s sense of 303 allegory Tennyson’s views 688 figural allegory 69 Yeats’s concerns with 779 personification allegory 69 ‘age of Chaucer’ 43 in Piers Plowman 68–72 agricultural revolution, importance for Clare’s Spenser’s Faerie Queen 146 writing 551 Allen, Lord (Irish politician attacked by Akenside, Mark Swift) 325 blank verse 381 Allen, Ralph (friend of Montagu) 366 composition 391 Allingham, William, on Tennyson and descriptions of nature 388 Keats 604 on God and nature 388 Allison, Drummond 859, 861 on nature 386 Aloes Books (publisher) 971 on sight 385 Alvarez, A. Pleasures of Imagination, The 371, 378, 395 on Larkin’s ‘At Grass’ 891 Alabaster, William 212 on the Movement 883 Alamanni, Luigi 125 Alvi, Moniza, ‘Neighbourhood, The’ 1002

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American philosophy, Hill’s views 947 aristocratic authors, reluctance to publish, Amis, Kingsley 879 Elizabethan period 156 works aristocratic culture, Yeats’s concerns with 772 ‘Against Romanticism’ 881, 919 Aristotle Lucky Jim 891 as arbiter of taste for Pope 338 ‘Something Nasty in the Bookshop’ 883 on art 159 Amis, Sally (Kingsley Amis’s daughter) 887 definition of tragedy 273 Anacreon, influence on second generation of Jonson’s concerns with adaptation of his Romantic poets 489, 491 works 204 the Ancients, Blake’sinfluence on 454 Arminianism, Milton’s views 256 Anderson, Robert, Works of the British Poets 419 Armitage, Simon Andreas 11 on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 41 Andrewes, Lancelot works influence on Eliot 817, 820 ‘Ivory’ 994 Milton’s elegy for 233 ‘Night Shift’ 994 Anglicanism Zoom 994 Dryden’s attitude to 307, 308, 310 Armstrong, Isobel influence on Eliot 734 on Victorian poetry 576 Anglo-Saxon language 7 Victorian Poetry 706 Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, The 8 Arnold, Matthew 315, 426, 542, 583, 618, Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records 639–43, 739 codices 8 on Chaucer’s literary style 65 contents 11–12 influenced by Milton 243 Anglo-Saxon poetry literary criticsm of Langland 78 Auden’saffinities with 845 Mallock satirises 596 see also Battle of Maldon, The; Beowulf on poetry 596 Anima Christi 213 and Romanticism 424, 428 animal suffering 388 works ‘animist materialism’, Milton’s views 264 ‘Buried Life, The’ 590, 640 Anne of Denmark (Queen of England; wife of Culture and Anarchy 660 James I and VI) 204 ‘Dover Beach’ 594, 641, 690 Anne, Queen 362 influence on Hardy 692 ‘Annot and John’ 45, 52 Empedocles on Etna 639, 643 annuals 572, 580 ‘Haworth Churchyard’ 635 publication 558 ‘Lines written in Kensington Anthology of Religious Verse (Penguin) (1942) 863 Gardens’ 578 anti-Semitism, Eliot’s views 731, 736 ‘On the Modern Element in Literature’ antitheism, Swinburne’s delight in 658 (lecture 1857) 689 ‘Apocalypse, or, The Whole Man’ 860 Poems, Preface to the first edition 643 Appleton House (entailed to the Fairfax family Poems (1853) 596 estate) 203 ‘Scholar-Gipsy, The’ 576, 590, 643 apposition, in Old English poetry 19 ‘Sohrab and Rustum’ 640 Apuleius 697 ‘Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse’ Arabian Nights, The 465 542, 579, 594, 641 Arbuthnot, John 339 ‘To Marguerite – Continued’ 640 Ardilaun, Lord (arts patron) 771 art Aretino, Pietro, paraphrases the psalms 131 Aristotle’s views 159 Arian heresy, Milton’s treatment 256 Hemans’s treatment 571 Ariosto, Ludovico 155 social role 662 influence on Dryden 301 sovereignty of 429 influence on Milton’s Paradise Lost 257 artistic self-redirection, Yeats’s concerns Milton quotes 259 with 779 Orlando Furioso 501 Ascension, The 24

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Ascham, Roger, on alexandrines 334 ‘Sir, no man’s enemy, forgiving all’ 847 Ashbery, John 898 ‘Spain 1937’ 850 Ashburnham House, Cotton Fire 20 ‘sprung rhythm’ 41 Astell, Mary 287, 359 ‘Who stands, the crux left of the Astraea see Behn, Aphra watershed’ 845 Athenaeum (periodical) 671 Audience Research Panel 903 Atkins, Thomas 710 audiences, reaction to Lyrical Ballads complained Aubrey, John 294 of by Wordsworth 458 Auchinleck MS (Advocates’ MS 19.2.1; ‘Augustan’ verse 358 National Library of Scotland Augustine of Hippo, St, Eliot’s use 815 (Edinburgh)) 46 aureate praises, Skelton’s use 116 Auden, W. H. 7, 24, 844–51, 893, 964 Austen, Jane, Persuasion 503 admiration for Swift 318 Austin, Alfred 598, 725 on elegy in Old English poetry 12 authorship, Sidney’s views 159 forties poetry 858 Avril, Jane (dancer) 702 inﬂuence on Axelrod, Steven Gould, on Plath’s ‘Three Davie 885 Women’ 909 Fenton 991 Ayer, A. J., Language, Truth and Logic 888 Larkin 889 Longley 960 B., E. (reader for radio programmes), MacNeice 852 assessment of Stevie Smith’s inﬂuenced by poetry 904 Byron 515, 518 Babbitt, Irving 424 Dryden 315 on Romanticism 426, 436 Genesis A 12 Bacon, Francis 198, 347 Owen 841 Bagehot, Walter, on the franchise 721 Riding 897 Bailey, Benjamin, on Keats reciting on Old English poetry 7 Chatterton 410 Oxford Book of Light Verse 321 Bailey, Harry, criteria for story-telling works success 95 ‘As I walked out one evening’ 850 Baillie, William Mowbray 669 ‘August for the people’ 846 Baker, Deborah, on Laura Riding 898, 915 ‘Consider this and in our time’ 847 Baker, Jane, ‘Virgin Life, A’ 287 ‘Control of the passes’ 844 Baker, Shirley (industrial photographer) 978 ‘Crowing of the Cock, The’ 842 Bale, John, refers to Langland 59 ‘Doom is dark and deeper than any balets 118, 120 sea-dingle’ 845 Ballad of Clym of the Clough 459 ‘In Memory of W. B. Yeats’ 850, 851 ballads ‘In Time of War’ 850 Christina Rossetti’s use 675 ‘It was Easter as I walked in the public Hardy 747–51 gardens’ 847 late Victorian period 721 ‘Letter, The’ 845 tradition subverted by Coleridge’s ‘Look, stranger, at this island Rime 465 now’ 737 Ballaster, Ros, on Behn’s eroticism 286 ‘May with its light behaving’ 846 Balzac, Honoré de 627 ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ 850 Barash, Carol, on Behn 284, 285 New Year Letter 860 Barbauld, Anna Laetitia 432, 563–5 Orators, The 848 comparison with Hemans 570 ‘Out on the lawn I lie in bed’ 849 works Poems 844 Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem 564 ‘September 1, 1939’ 847, 849 ‘Epistle to Wilberforce, Esq., on the ‘Since you are going to begin to-day’, use Rejection of the Bill for of pararhyme 845 Abolishing the Slave Trade’ 563

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‘Inscription for an Ice-House’ 564 Beardsley, Mabel (sister of Aubrey Beardsley) ‘Life’ 565 773, 774 ‘Mouse’s Petition [to Dr Priestley], ‘beast-epic’ traditions 97 The’ 564 Beatitudes 14 ‘On the Death of Princess Charlotte’ 565 Beattie, James, Minstrel, The 499 ‘Rights of Woman, The’ 563 Beaumont, Lady Margaret (Wordsworth’s ‘To a Lady, with some painted correspondent) 461, 463 flowers’ 563 Beauvoir, Simone de 897 ‘To a little invisible being who is Beckett, Samuel, influence on Mahon 958 expected soon to become Beddoes, Thomas Lovell 544, 545–9, 559 visible’ 565 Dictionary of National Biography entries 559 ‘To Mr Coleridge’ 563 modern criticism of 544 ‘To the Poor’ 563 obsession with death 545 ‘Washing Day’ 565 on Romantic third-generation poetry 542 Barber, Mary 358 works Barbour, John, Bruce 96, 110 Brides’ Tragedy, The 546 Barbusse, Henri, Under Fire 830 Death’s Jest-Book 545, 546, 547 Barker, George 858, 862 ‘Dream of Dying’ 547 Barker, Jane 287, 359 ‘Dream Pedlary’ 548 Barker, Pat, Regeneration 840 Improvisatore, The 545 Barnes, Barnabe 212 Bede, Venerable, History of the English Church Barnett, Anthony 981 and People 10 Barnfield, Richard 189 Bedford, Lucy, Countess of 202 works Beerbohm, Max 582, 796 Cynthia 156 Works of Max Beerbohm, The 794 ‘Tears of an Affectionate Shepherd Sick Beers, Henry A. 428 for Love, The’ 174 on Romanticism 420, 422, 429 Barnie, John, City, The 978 Behn, Aphra 281, 287 Baroni, Leonora (singer and composer) 246 authorship 281 baroque 222 erotic poems 285 Barrell, John, on importance of agricultural political poetry 286 revolution for Clare’s writing 551 textual embodiedness 282 Barry, Paul, on lyric poetry 415 works Barth, Karl, influence on Hill 944 ‘Disappointment, The’ 281, 285, 286 Basho¯ (seventeenth-century Japanese poet) 958 ‘Golden Age, The’ 283, 286 Baskin, Leonard (illustrator and sculptor) Lycidus, or the lover in fashion 283 911, 923 Miscellany, being a collection of poems by Bate, Jonathan several Hands 283 on editing Clare’s works 550 ‘Silvio’s Complaint: a song: to a fine John Clare: A Biography 559 Scotch tune’ 286 Bath (Somerset) 13 ‘Song to a New Scotch Tune’ 286 Battle of Brunanburh, The 8 ‘To the fair Clarinda, who made love Battle of Maldon, The 8, 9, 20–1, 24, 33 to me, imagin’d more than Baudelaire, Charles 351, 593, 661, 663, Woman’ 286 688, 729 Bell, Acton see Brontë, Anne influence on Carlson 966 Bell, Currer see Brontë, Charlotte works Bell, Ellis see Brontë, Emily ‘Au Lecteur’ 1000 Bellay, Joachim du 155, 161, 697 ‘Enivrez-Vous’ 436 Bembo, Pietro 155, 247 Les Fleurs du mal 697 Bentley, Richard 321, 330 Bawcutt, Priscilla, on Douglas’s poetry 110, 112 Beowulf 9, 15, 18–20 Bayley, John 427, 431 elegiac nature 12 Beardsley, Aubrey 794 first attested reference to 8

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Beowulf (cont.) Heaney and Kavanagh 927 Heaney’s translation 7, 931 Hill 941, 943 manuscript’s survival 20 Yeats 736 Shippey’s views 8 lyric poetry 440–3 Beowulf and Judith 9 meditative works 443–7 ‘Beowulf manuscript’ 9 prophetic mode 451 Bernard of Clairvaux, St 76 reputation 454 Berni, Francesco, Orlando Inamorato, Byron’s on the sovereignty of art 429 use 506, 509 style 453 Bernstein, Charles, influence on Hill 946 Swinburne’s views on 659 Berryman, John 886, 939 urge to prophecy 448 Bertram, Vicki, on Ted Hughes and Sylvia use of rhyme 452 Plath 912 visionary texts 454 Bethel, Slingsby, portrayal in Dryden’s works Absalom and Achitophel 304 ‘Ancient Proverb, An’ 447 Betjeman, John 892 ‘Auguries of Innocence’ 452 Beveridge Report (1942) 862 Book of Thel, The 443 Beves of Hampton 27 Book of Urizen, The 449, 923 Bevis, Matthew, on voice in Byron’s ‘Edward the Third’ 442 Don Juan 514 ‘Everlasting Gospel, The’ 452 Bible ‘Fly, The’ 448 imagery, Cleanness 30 Four Zoas, The 448 King James Bible 69, 944 ‘Holy Thursday’ poems 445, 570 literalism, Milton’s responses to 255 ‘Island in the Moon, An’ 443 lyric poetry, influence on mid eighteenth- Jerusalem 451, 452 century poetry 404 ‘Little Vagabond, The’ 445 themes, use in Stuart period 222 ‘London’ 446 traditions, use in Pearl 38–40 Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The 444 Binyon, Laurence 837 Milton 451 biography, links with poetry 467 Poetical Sketches 441 Bion, influence on Milton 243 ‘Prophetic Books’ 448 Birmingham, Roy Fisher’s regional Songs of Experience 564 poetry 975 Songs of Innocence 443 Birtwistle, Harrison, Gawain! 40 ‘Tiriel’ 443 Black Adder Goes Forth 828 ‘Tyger, The’ 448 Black and Tans 772, 778 ‘Upon a holy thursday’ 443 Black Mountain poets 886 ‘Vala’ 448, 450 Blackmore, Sir Richard 348 ‘When the tongues of children are heard Blackmur, R. P. on the green’ 443 on Lawrence 742 blank verse, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘Shorter Poems of Thomas Hardy, The’ 766 use 630 Blackwood’s 488, 496, 544 ‘Blind Harry’ 110 Blackwood’s Magazine, Hemans’s works Blitz published 557 effects on Dylan Thomas’s poetry 864–6 Blage, George (Protestant courtier addressed influence on poetry 862 by Surrey) 130 Blok, Alexander 742 ‘Blage’ manuscript 120, 134 Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Blake, William 663 Poets 906 on The Canterbury Tales 81 Bloodaxe (publisher) 970, 976, 984 compositional methods 447 Bloom, Harold 543 inclusion in the Romantic canon 427, 428 idea of the strong poet, influence on influence on Geoffrey Hill 939 Emily Brontë 637 on Romanticism 427, 428

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Visionary Company, The, on Blake 427 Boyle, Elizabeth (Spenser’s second wife) on Yeats and the Romantics 736 148, 161 Blount, Martha (friend of Pope) 324 Brackley, Lord John (son of Earl of Blume, Friedrich 11 Bridgewater), part in Comus 240 Blunden, Edmund 740 Bradlaugh, Charles (newspaper proprietor) 689 Boccaccio, Giovanni Bradley, A. C., on Keats and Shelley 525 Dryden’s translation 295 Bradley, F. H. 807, 948 Dryden’s use of 301 Appearance and Reality 815 Il Filostrato, Chaucer’s use 82, 83, 84, Bradley, Katherine see Field, Michael 86, 88 Brady, Jennifer, on Dryden 292 influence, late fourteenth-century Brandl, Aloise, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the England 44 English Romantic School 422 Keats’s use 536 Brereton, Jane 362 Bodichon, Barbara 675 Brett, John 684 Boethius, Anicius Manilius Severinus Brian, Sir Francis, satirised by Wyatt 125 Consolation of Philosophy 97, 101 Bridges, Robert 678, 680, 681, 682, 683 dream visions 38 poetical concerns 725 influence on Chaucer 84 ‘Wake Up, England!’ 839 on tragedy 101, 102 Bridgewater, John Egerton, First Earl of 240 Boileau 348 Brightman, F. E., on Lancelot Andrewes Art Poétique 333, 337 817, 820 Dryden’s use 301 British poetry, and Irish poetry 918 influence on Pope 335 British Poetry Revival 970, 985 Le Lutrin 349 Brittany, Roy Fisher’s regional poetry 977 repudiates burlesque 319 Brontë, Anne 636 Boland, Eavan 956, 962 Brontë, Charlotte 636 works edits Emily Brontë’s poetry 647 ‘Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me, Brontë, Emily 635, 636–9 The’ 962 works Code 963 ‘Julian M. and A. G. Rochelle’ 637 ‘Dolls Museum in Dublin, The’ 962 ‘Night-Wind, The’, and the natural In Her Own Image 962 world 588 In a Time of Violence 962 ‘No coward soul is mine’ 635, 636 Lost Land, The 963 ‘Prisoner (A Fragment), The’ 637 Night Feed 962 ‘Remembrance’ 638 Object Lessons 962 ‘Stars’ 636, 850 Outside History 962 Wuthering Heights 635 ‘That the Science of Cartography Is Brooke, Rupert 824 Limited’ 962 influence 862 Boleyn, Anne (Queen of England) 125 works Bolingbroke, Henry 362, 366 ‘Fish, The’ 739 Bond, William, co-author with Fowke 371 ‘Soldier, The’ 833 Book of Common Prayer 939 Brown, Cedric, on Milton’s Comus 241 General Confession, Arnold’s use 639 Brown, Curtis 904 Booth, James, on Larkin’s ‘Church Going’ 892 Brown, Georgia E., on eroticism in Marlowe’s Booth, Martin 903 Hero and Leander 182 Borroff, Marie 40 Brown, Jethro 720 Boswell, James 352 New Democracy, The, representative bouts rimés 671 government 711 Bowen, Elizabeth, ‘Demon Lover, The’ 863 Brown University Women Writers Bower, Lady 367 project 561 Bowes, Eleanor, portrayal by Montagu 364 Browne, Felicia Dorothea see Hemans, Felicia Bowra, Maurice, on Romanticism 426 Browne, William 208

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 581, 747 Tennyson criticises 598 Christina Rossetti’s references to 674 works cultural critiques 622 ‘Abt Vogler’ 631 early reputation 621 ‘Adam, Lilith, and Eve’ 633 education and early poems 619–20 Agamemnon 633 influence on Robert Browning’s late ‘Amphibian’ 634 poetry 633 ‘Andrea del Sarto’ 626 links with evangelical Dissent 617–19 ‘Another Way of Love’ 628 lyric forms 630–1 Aristophanes’ Apology 633, 634 marriage and its influence 623–6 Asolando 633 translation of Aeschylus’ Prometheus ‘Bad Dreams’ 619 Bound 620 Balaustion’s Adventure 634 works ‘Bishop Blougram’s Apology’ 626 Aurora Leigh 628–30 ‘Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s Battle of Marathon, The 620 Church, The’ 626 ‘Bertha in the Lane’ 623 ‘Caliban upon Setebos’ 631 Casa Guidi Windows 625 ‘Childe Roland’,influence on Christina ‘Cry of the Children, The’ 623 Rossetti 674 ‘Curse for a Nation, A’ 626, 631 Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day 624 ‘Dead Pan, The’ 623 ‘Cleon’ 626 ‘Deserted Garden, The’ 622 ‘Dance of Death, The’ 620 ‘“Diedà”’ 631 ‘Death in the Desert, A’ 631 Drama of Exile 623 Dramatic Lyrics 622 Essay on Mind, An 620 Dramatic Romances and Lyrics 623 ‘Lady Geraldine’s Courtship’ 623 Dramatis Personae 631, 720 Last Poems 630 Easter-Day 625 ‘Mother and Poet’ 618, 631 ‘Epilogue’ 631 ‘Musical Instrument, A’ 631 ‘Essay on Shelley’ 625 ‘Napoleon III in Italy’ 630 Ferishtah’s Fancies 633 New Spirit of the Age, A 623 Fifine at the Fair 633 Poems (1844) 623 ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’ 581, 585 Poems before Congress 630 ‘Householder, The’ 634 ‘Romance of the Ganges, A’ 621 ‘How It Strikes a Contemporary’ 627 ‘Romaunt of Margret, The’ 621 ‘In a Year’ 628 ‘Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point, The’ Inn Album, The 633 585, 590, 631 ‘Ivàn Ivànovitch’ (Dramatic Idyls) 718 ‘Sea-Side Walk, A’ 622 ‘James Lee’s Wife’ 631 Seraphim, The 620, 623 ‘Last Ride Together, The’ 628 Sonnets from the Portuguese 618, 624, 625, Men and Women 581, 625, 626–8, 629, 720 629, 674 ‘Mesmerism’ 628 ‘Vision of Poets, A’ 623 ‘Mr Sludge, ‘‘The Medium’’’ 632 ‘Wine of Cyprus’ 623 ‘My Last Duchess’ 622, 627 Browning, Robert 581, 621, 622, 625, 706, 718, 720 ‘Never the Time and the Place’ 633 dramatic monologues 622, 625, 626–8, 708, ‘Numpholeptos’ 633 714, 718, 727 ‘One Word More’ 628 education and early poetry 619, 620 Paracelsus 621 influence on Morris’s Defence of Guenevere 650 Parleyings with Certain People of Importance later poems 631–4 in Their Day 633 links with evangelical Dissent 617–19 Pauline 621 marriage and its influence 623–6 ‘Pictor Ignotus’ 626 psychological curiosity 621 ‘Pied Piper of Hamelin, The’ 622 publishing success 581 Pippa Passes 633 sense of time 579 ‘Popularity’ 618

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‘Porphyria’s Lover’ 585 Burrow, J. A. 73 Prince Hohenstiehl-Schwangau 633 on vocabulary, in late fourteenth century 55 ‘Prospice’ 633 literary criticism of Ring and the Book, The 632–3, 634, 719, 721 Langland 67 ‘Saint Martin’s Summer’ 633 Bush, Douglas 526, 539 Sordello 577 Butler, Samuel, Hudibras 282, 320 ‘Toccata of Galuppi’s, A’ 627 Byron, Anne Isabella, Lady (wife of ‘Too Late’ 631 Byron) 507 ‘“Transcendentalism: A Poem in Twelve Byron, George Gordon, Lord 177, 341, 420, Books”’ 627 428, 542 ‘Two in the Campagna’ 628 admiration for Swift 318 ‘Up at a Villa – Down in the City’ 628 alignment between poetry and ‘life’ 508, ‘Woman’s Last Word, A’ 627 512, 513, 519 ‘Youth and Art’ 631 on authors 462 Browningesque 621 Charlotte Smith anticipates 566 Brut 55 complains of being confused with his Brutus (legendary founder of Britain) 348 heroes 497 Buchanan, George, influence on Milton 232 imagination of sound 490, 491 Buchanan, Robert imitates Swift 322 criticises D. G. Rossetti’s Poems (1870) 664 influence on Hemans 570 criticism of Swinburne 662 linked with the Romantic poets 487 Buckhurst, Charles, Lord, personalised in on pessimism 689 Dryden’s Essay on Dramatic Poetry on poetic systems 501 300 on the reading public 462 Buckingham, George Villiers, second Duke reflection of the poet’s persona 499 of 302 and the ‘Romantic’ 421 death of, Pope’s description 329, 330 on Spenserian stanzas 501–2 portrayal in Dryden’s Absalom and use of satire 493–4 Achitophel 290, 304 works Rehearsal, The 301, 313 ‘Again Deceived! Again Betrayed!’ 492 satirical portraits 345 Age of Bronze, The 494 Bugler, Gertrude (actress; Hardy’s infatuation Beppo 322, 462, 502, 510, 517 with) 758 on art 518 Buile Suibhne (‘The Frenzy of Sweeney’), modern criticisms 518–20 Heaney’s translation 931 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 510, 518, 520 Bunting, Basil 726 Cantos i and ii, satirical nature 493 works influence on Landon 573 Briggflatts 743 style 498–500 influence on MacSweeney 980 views on style 501 Cantos 743 Corsair, The 487, 492 ‘Star you steer by is gone, The’ 743 ‘Devil’s Drive, The’ 489 Bunyan, John, Pilgrim’s Progress, The 70, 674 Don Juan 322, 489, 502, 503, 506, 689 Burke, Edmund, influence on Wordsworth 481 critical reactions to 522 burlesque 282, 319 meditation on constancy in 492 Burnet, Gilbert 286, 289 overtures 506–8 Burns, Robert 397, 414, 430 rhyme 519 historical curiosity 399 seriousness 508, 516–18 influence on Auden 849 structure 509 love songs 415 use of ottava rima 510, 513 works voice in 514–18 Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 456 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers 510 ‘Red red Rose, A’ 417 ‘Epistle to Augusta’ 501 ‘Vision, The’ 414 Giaour, The

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Byron, George Gordon, Lord (cont.) Opera Et Cetera 965 style 498 ‘Turn Again’ 965 use of fragment form 500 Twelfth of Never, The 966 Hours of Idleness 488, 489 Cary, Henry, translation of Dante 530 ‘Lines to a Lady Weeping’ 492 Casa Guidi (Florence) 624 Manfred, use of fragment form 500 Casley, David 20 Observations 501 Casti, Giovanni Battista, influence on Byron 510 ‘Poems on Domestic Circumstances’ 507 Castiglione, Baldassare Ravenna Journal 521 Book of the Courtier, The 119, 771, 772 ‘To Inez’ 500 influence on Milton 243 ‘Windsor Poetics’ 493 Castle of Perseverance, The 70 Byzantium, Yeats’s concept 780 Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Lord 509 cataloguing 497 Cabezón, Antonio de 945 Catherine of Braganza (Charles II’s wife) Caedmon 10, 19 286, 302 ‘Caedmon manuscript’ 9 Catherine the Great, guyed in Byron’s Don Calder, D. G. 9, 16 Juan 512, 519 Callimachus, influence on Milton 232 Catholicism, Byron’s views 493, 523 Calvert, Edward, Blake’sinfluence on 454 Catullus 203, 232 Cambridge avant-garde 981 Cavafy, Constantine 859, 958 Cambridge Magazine 826 Cavalcanti, Guido 817 Camden, William 196 Cavell, Stanley, on poetry of the ordinary 432 Camöens, Luis de 257, 258 Caxton, William 63, 105, 109 Campbell, James, on war poetry 825 Cayley, Charles 674 Campbell, Matthew 720, 753 Centlivre, Susanna 362 Campion, Thomas 164, 254 Century Guild Hobby Horse (periodical) 695 works Chalandritsanos, Loukas 521 Book of Airs, A 164 Chaloner, David 981 Third and Fourth Books of Airs 164 Chambers, R. W., ‘The Lost Literature of Two Books of Airs 164 Medieval England’ 8 Canova, Antonio, Ninfa della fontana 489 Chandler, Mary 368 canzone (long song) 157 ‘Letter to the Right Honourable Lady Capa, Robert (photographer) 829 Russell’ 368 Carew, Thomas 203 Chapman, George, completion of Marlowe’s elegy to Donne 192 Hero and Leander 183 works Chapman and Hall (publishers) 581 Coelum Britannicum 252 character portraits, late seventeenth century ‘Rapture, A’ 199, 206 289, 345 Carey, John, on Milton’s Samson Agonistes 272 Charles I (King of England) 206, 253, 291, 701 Carlo Emanuele II, Duke of Savoy 254 court masques 239 Carlyle, Thomas 424, 618 execution 224 Caroline of Anspach (George II’s wife) 362, 367 Charles II (King of England) Carragάin, Éamon Ó 23 Dryden’s ironic attitude to 301 Carroll, Lewis 70, 592 Exclusion Crisis 290 Carson, Ciaran 965, 988 personified in Dryden’s Absalom and works Achitophel 290 ‘1798’ 966 religion 308 Alexandrine Plan, The 966 Restoration 255, 257, 258, 283 ‘Belfast Confetti’ 965 and the Royal Oak 289 Breaking News 965 Charles XII (King of Sweden), Johnson First Language 965 satirises 346, 353 For All We Know 965 Charlotte, Princess, death, Barbauld’s Irish for No, The 965 response to 565

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charters 446 dialects and spelling 56 Chartin, Alain, Curial 105 use of rhyme royal 140 Chatterton, Thomas 397, 409 Truth 105 historical curiosity 399 ‘Wife of Bath’s Prologue’, compared influence on Blake 443 with Dunbar’s treatment of works demandes d’amour 104 ‘Excelente Balade of Charitie, An’ 409 Cheeseman, Evelyn (broadcaster) 916 ‘Mynstrelles Song’ 410 Chesterton, G. K., on Tennyson 598 Chaucer, Geoffrey 28, 57, 58, 63, 67, children, poetry addressed to 887 126, 136 Chilvers, Sally (Robert Graves’s niece) 916 could not read Old English 7 Chinese poetic traditions 727 dream theory 81 Chiswick Press 581 and Dryden 43, 295 Chrétien de Troyes 26 importance 58 Le Conte du Graal 32 influence on Scottish literature 96 Perceval 32 literary style 65, 76 Christ, Carol, on ‘aesthetics of particularity’ 588 metrical experiments 55 Christ Church (Albany Street), Christina poetic techniques 81 Rossetti attends 669 poetical development 47 Christ in Judgement 24 Pope’s rhyming 333 Christ and Satan 10 Spenser’s views on 137 Christianity translation of the Roman de la Rose 49 and Eliot’s Waste Land 813 use of classical myths 86 Hill’s use 944 use of courtly dream vision 37 Swinburne challenges 659 use of French poetry 53 Chudleigh, Lady Mary 359 use of metre 48 ‘Ladies’ Defence’ 359 verse-forms 49 Church vocabulary 55 Donne’s concerns with the true Church 195 works influence on pre-fourteenth-century poetry Anelida and Arcite 101 44, 46 Book of the Duchess, The 81 Church of England hymnal, influence on Canterbury Tales, The 48, 49, 104, 518 Geoffrey Hill 939 literary style 65, 90–5 Cibber, Colley 352 Clerk’s Tale, The 44 civic ideals, Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel 305 ‘Complaint of Venus’ 48, 55 Civil War Friar’s Tale, The 83 influence on eighteenth-century women’s House of Fame, The 47, 49, 81, 91 poetry 359 Knight’s Tale, The, poetics 90 Milton’s poetry 232 Legend of Good Women 48, 49, 187 poetic responses 224 Douglas’s criticisms 112, 113 Clanchy, Kate 998 Manciple’s Tale, The 93 Clare, John 430, 543, 544, 549–55, 567 Merchant’s Tale, The 92 comparison with Wordsworth 554 compared with Dunbar’s treatment of mental states 545 demandes d’amour 105 posthumous reputation 544 Miller’s Tale, The 91, 92 works Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The 91, 98 ‘Don Juan’ 554 Pardoner’s Prologue 93 ‘Flitting, The’ 552 Parliament of Fowls, The 48, 49, 81, 140 ‘January: a cottage evening’ 560 Second Nun’s Tale, The 92 ‘Journey from Essex’ 552 Troilus and Criseyde 48, 49, 59, 81, 82–9, ‘Mores, The’ 550 90, 93, 95, 97 ‘Nightingales nest, The’ 552 comparisons, with Henryson’s Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life and Testament 100–1, 102 Scenery 551

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Clare, John (cont.) attempts to persuade Wordsworth to write ‘Progress of Rhyme, The’ 554 The Recluse 471 Rural Muse, The 551 Bowra’s views 427 Shepherd’s Calendar, The 550, 551 Charlotte Smith influences 565 ‘To a Winter Scene’ 553 contribution to Lyrical Ballads 464 Village Minstrel, The 551 criticism of Mary Robinson 568 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of 289 criticisms of Wordsworth 430, 432 Clark, Alan J., on Riding’s Word Woman 897 Eliot’s views of 425 classical literature on ‘Esemplastic Imagination’ 793 Dryden’s translations 295 influence on influence on Geoffrey Hill 941, 942 Chaucer 86 Muldoon 964 Dryden 300 Lucas’s views 426 late fourteenth-century England 43 on the ordinary in art 431 Marlowe 174 praises Barbauld 563 Milton 232, 234, 236, 243, 247, 248, 257, and the ‘Romantic’ 419 259, 260 and Romanticism, twentieth-century Pope 340–3 views 425 classical poetry, T. E. Hulme’s views on 425 on Shakespeare 425 ‘Classicism’ 426 urges Wordsworth to write The Cleanness 29, 30 Excursion 481 clergy, role of, Chaucer’s treatment 93 on Wordsworth’s ‘Elegiac Stanzas’ 425 Cleverdon, Douglas (radio producer) 909 Wordsworth’s views 424 Clifford, Lady Anne 203 works Clifford, Margaret 203, 204 Biographia Literaria 488, 489 Clifford, Sir George 203 critique of Lyrical Ballads 464 Clough, Arthur Hugh 643–7 Christabel 420 on poetry market 581 influence on Arnold 641 on Wordsworth 424, 427 Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound 535 works ‘Dejection: An Ode’ 348, 426, 431, 467 Amours de Voyage 585, 636, 645–7 comparison with Landon 573 Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich, The (The Bothie similarities with Yeats’s ‘Circus of Tober-na-vuolich) 581 Animals’ Desertion’ 783 Dipsychus and The Spirit 644 ‘Eolian Harp, The’ 589, 642 ‘Easter Day. Naples, 1849’ 592 ‘Fear, Famine and Slaughter’ 495 ‘Easter Day’ poems 645 ‘Foster-mother’s Tale, The’ 466 ‘Struggle, The’ 644 ‘Frost at Midnight’ 467, 766 Cobbe, Frances Power 578 ‘Kubla Khan’ 416, 418, 424, 882 Cockney School 488, 490 ‘Modern Taste’ 420 Coffman, Stanley, rejection of Decadence 789 ‘Nightingale, The’ 466 Coghill, Nevill, literary criticism of Poems on Various Subjects 489 Langland 67 ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The’ 433, Coke, Mary (wife of the Vice-Chamberlain?), 464, 882 portrayal by Montagu 363 reflected in Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Coleman, Charles (composer) 254 Market 672 Coleridge, E. H. 501 ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’ 467 Coleridge, Hartley (son of Samuel ‘Work without Hope’ 1 T. Coleridge) 467 see also Lyrical Ballads Coleridge, Henry Nelson, on S. T. Coleridge Collier, Mary 358 and Romanticism 420 Woman’s Labour, The 359, 372 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 371, 421, 422, 428, Collins, William 397, 413 430, 432, 460, 462, 884 historical curiosity 399, 405 admiration of Dutch art 433 influence on Blake 443

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works Scottish court’sinfluence on Dunbar’s ‘Ode on the Poetical Character’ 405 poetry 103 ‘Ode to Evening’ 408 Tudor period 115, 116–22 colonisation, Milton’s Paradise Lost 267 see also masques Columbia University Press 8 courtly dream-vision, treatment in romance 37 complaints, and sonnets 189 courtly love 37 ‘comune’ 85 European lyric poetry 155 conduct books, notions of female propriety 562 and marriage, Spenser’s concerns with 161 confessional school of poetry 908 Couzyn, Jeni, on Stevie Smith 906 Congreve, William 291, 318 Covent Garden Drolery, The 282 Dryden commends 299, 314 Coward, Noel 341 Connolly, Cyril 858 Cowley, Abraham 221, 231, 292 Connolly (Irish nationalist) 775 works Conquest, Robert Davideis, Or, A Sacred Poem of the Troubles edits New Lines 880, 919 of David 258 works ‘On the Death of Mr Crashaw’ 222 ‘Nantucket’ 882 ‘On Hope’ 221 ‘Near Jakobselv’ 883 Pindaric ode to K. Philips 230 Conrad, Peter, on Tennyson’s responses to ‘Pindariques’ 318 the novel 603 Cowley, Hannah 696 Constable, Henry, Diana 156 Cowper, William 375, 380, 383, 422 Contemporary British Poetry (Morrison and city-hating polemics 463 Motion) 970 descriptions of nature 388 ‘contexture’, eighteenth-century long poems 391 influence on Coleridge 466 conversation poems on mental association 390, 391 Arnold’s use 641 Milton’sinfluence on 239 women’s poetry 366 on poetic style 495 Coole Park (County Galway) (Lady Gregory’s works home) 770, 772 Castaway, The 31 Cooper, Edith see Field, Michael Task, The 379, 382, 430 Cooper, Helen, on romance motifs 27 ‘Argument’, mental association 391 Copland (printer) 108 blank verse 381 Corneille, Pierre, influence on Dryden 301 on inevitability of death 29 Cornforth, Fanny 653 on mental association 390 coterie names 221 ‘Time-Piece, The’ 392 coterie verse ‘Winter Evening, The’ 390 Behn circulates 282 Cox, Jeffrey, on the second generation of eighteenth-century 358 Romantic poets 488 Cotton, Charles Crabbe, George 516 works as Romantic 430 Scarronides 320, 349 use of heroic couplets 495 Virgile Travesty 319 Borough, The: ‘Inhabitants of the Alms- Cotton Library fire 28 House: Blaney’ 431 counterpoint, Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Craiglockhart (Edinburgh) (military use 681 hospital) 827 ‘Country House’ mode 369 Crane, Hart 900 couplets, Swift’s use 326, 331 Crashaw, Richard 221 Courier Mail 456 works court circles 207 Carmen Deo Nostro 223 ballets 118, 120 Christmas poems 234 Elizabethan court poetry 139 ‘On Hope’ 221 influenced by rhyme royal 140 ‘On Mr G. Herberts booke, The paradistole 124 Temple’ 223

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Crashaw, Richard (cont.) works Steps to the Temple 223 Defence of Ryme 157 ‘Upon two greene Apricockes sent to Delia 156 Cowley by Sir Crashaw’ 221 Dante Alighieri 65, 248 ‘Weeper, The’ 222, 227 Christina Rossetti translates 674 Crawford, Robert, on Eliot’s ‘Prufrock’ 808 D. G. Rossetti’s translation 651 creation influence on Langland’s attitude to 69, 74–5 Eliot 821 Milton’s views 264 Keats 530 creativity, Dunbar’s concerns with 103 Yeats 769, 774 Crichton Smith, Iain 967 Milton’s first poetic reference to 236 Croker, John Wilson, criticises Barbauld’s use of allegory 68, 71 Eighteen Hundred and Eleven 564 use of terza rima 748 Cromwell, Oliver 224, 232, 249 as vernacular poet 44 Cronin, Richard, on Hunt’s style 496 works Cross, Tim, Lost Voices of World War One, Divine Comedy 29, 518 The 843 dream visions 38 Crossley-Holland, Kevin 24 influence on Shelley and Keats 528 Crowley, Robert (printer) 59, 63 influence on Yeats 775 Crown and the Sickle, The (ed. Treece and Inferno 263, 691, 735 Hendry) 861 Paradiso 49 Crozier, Andrew 875, 981, 984 Purgatorio,influence on Heaney 931 Crystal Palace 582 Vita Nuova, La,influence 155, 774 Cuchulain, legends of 32, 769 Dark Ages 8, 22 cultural deterioration, Victorian concerns Darley, George 542, 543, 544, 545, 555–6 with 688 depression and deflation 545 Cumbria, MacSweeney’s regional poetry 979 review of Beddoes’s Bride’s Tragedy 546 Cunard, Nancy 899, 902 works Cunningham, Valentine, on Spender’s war Errors of Ecstasie, The 555 poems 855 Nepenthe 555 Curll, Edmund (publisher) 363 Sylvia 555 Curran, Stuart 507 Darwin, Charles 631 on British Romanticism 419 influence on Hughes 921 on Robinson and Wordsworth 568 Origin of Species, The 631 on third-generation Romantic poets 545 Darwinian evolution 716 on women’s poetry in the Romantic Davenant, William, Gondibert 258 period 432 Davidson, John 706, 709, 723 Cursor Mundi 44, 47 ballads 721 Curtius, Ernst R., on medieval literature 22 dramatic monologues 713–15 Cynewulf 9, 11 works Elene 11 ‘Crystal Palace, The’ 582, 583, 715 Fates of the Apostles, The 11 ‘Testament of an Empire- Builder, The’ 715 Cyrenaicism 694 ‘Testament of John Davidson, The’ 721 ‘Testament of Sir Simon Simplex D’Aguiar, Fred Concerning Automobilism, works The’ 715 Airy Hall 1003 ‘Testament of a Vivisector, The’ 714 ‘Home’ 1003 ‘Thirty Bob a Week’ 583, 715 Mama Dot 1003 ‘Woman and Her Son, A’ 714 Daily News,onfin-de-siècle 703 Davie, Donald 735, 879 Dallington, Robert 142 on Hardy’s poetry 746 Daniel 10 on Larkin’s poetry 888 Daniel, Samuel 169, 189 on Modernist poetry 726

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reaction against Movement poetry 884 Della Casa, Giovanni works influence on Milton 247 ‘Among Artisans’ Houses’ 884 Rime & Prose 253 Articulate Energy: An Inquiry into the Della Cruscans 488 Syntax of English Poetry 884 demandes d’amour, Dunbar’s treatment 104, 105 ‘Belfast on a Sunday Afternoon’ 885 Demosthenes 598 Brides of Reason 884 Denham, Sir John 333 ‘Creon’s Mouse’ 885 Cooper’s Hill 226, 334, 340, 360, 374 ‘Demi-Exile. Howth’ 885 Dennis, John, on Hebrew prophets as poets 404 ‘Ezra Pound in Pisa’ 886 denominational interaction, Stuart period 223 Forests of Lithuania, The 886 Deor 10, 13, 15 ‘Garden Party, The’ 885 Derby, Alice Spencer, Dowager Countess of 239 ‘Homage to William Cowper’ 884 Deschamps, Eustache 26 ‘In the Stopping Train’ 886 D’Este, Duke Ercole 771 ‘Nashville Mornings’ 886 Devereux, Patricia 157 Purity of Diction in English Verse 884 ‘Devonshire’ manuscript 120, 134 ‘Rejoinder to a Critic’ 884 dialect ‘Remembering the Thirties’ 885 and scribal practices 56–8 Thomas Hardy and British Poetry 886, 887 Spenser’suseinThe Shepheardes Calendar 139 ‘Time Passing, Beloved’ 886 use in medieval English poetry 47 ‘Too Late for Satire’ 884 dialogues Winter Talent and Other Poems, A 884, 886 Langland’s use 72–4 ‘Woodpigeons at Raheny’ 883 Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo 531 Davies, Sir John (of Hereford) 189 Diana, myth of, Spenser’s use 152 Davis, Thomas (Osborne), influence on Dickens, Charles 618 Yeats 769 works Davlin, M. C., literary criticism of Langland 67 David Copperfield 629 Day Lewis, Cecil 837 Our Mutual Friend 580 works Dickins, Bruce 22 ‘Conflict, The’ 850 Dickinson, Emily 906 Magnetic Mountain, The 850 Dieu-donné restaurant (London) 787 ‘Song’, allusion to Auden 849 Dilke, Charles Wentworth (friend of Keats) 524 De Custine, Marquis 433 Diodati, Charles (Milton’s school friend) 233, De la Mare, Walter, ‘Listeners, The’ 740 234, 246 De Quincey, Thomas 424, 551 ‘direct musical presentation’ 788 Confessions 484 ‘Divine Proportion’ 29 De Staël, Madame, De l’Allemagne 421 divine right of kings 263 death divorce, Milton’s views 249, 255 dance of 107 Dixon, Canon Richard Watson 677 fear of, Dunbar’s treatment 106–8 correspondence with Gerard Manley inevitability, long poems’ concerns Hopkins 680, 681 with 392 Dobbie, E. V., edits Old English poetry Yeats’s views 773 collections 8 Debate between the Body and the Soul, The 46 Donaghy, Michael 1001 Decadence 687, 703 Donne, Henry (brother of John Donne) 195 late Victorian poetry 697–703 Donne, John 66, 173, 212, 884, 989 poetics of 796 Christmas poems 234 reflected in Joyce’s ‘I Hear an Army’ 801 compared with Jonson 195, 196–203 reflection of Greek literature 802 influence 192, 206 relationship with Imagism 789–95, 798, 800 on Geoffrey Hill 940 Le Décadent (periodical) 702 Pope’s rhyming 333 Decadents (Symbolists) 689 works Deguileville, Guillaume de 50 ‘Canonization, The’ 201

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Donne, John (cont.) Douglas, William, on creativity 103 ‘Come, madam, come’ 199 Dowland, John Corona, La 169 First Booke of Songes or Ayres 164 ‘Ecstasy, The’ 181, 208 influence on Geoffrey Hill 940, 945 ‘Flea, The’, compared with Dowling, Linda, on Decadence 796 Drummond’s poetry 208 Dowson, Ernest 687, 689, 703, 794 ‘Good Morrow, The’ 194, 195 works Holy Sonnet 2 201 ‘Benedictio Domini’ 703 Holy Sonnet 8 201 Book of the Rhymers’ Club 696 Holy Sonnets 169 ‘Last Word, A’ 686, 703 ‘Hymn to God the Father, A’ 198 ‘Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno ‘Love’s Progress’ 199 Cynarae’ 695, 699 Poems (1633) 199 Verses 696 Satire ii 200 Dowson, Jane, on Laura Riding 898 Satire iv 201, 288 on Charlotte Mew’s poetry 747 Songs and Sonnets, The 195 drama ‘Sun Rising, The’ 201 critical re-evaluation of Romantic ‘Upon his Mistress’s Lost Chain’ 197 plays 549 ‘Valediction: Of Weeping, A’ 196 epic drama, Dryden’s interest in 300 Donoghue, Denis, on Yeats and Milton’s Samson Agonistes 272 idealism 427 morality drama, allegory in 69 Doody, Margaret 376 poetic texts 2 Doolittle, Hilda 728, 787, 795, 798, 903 dramatic late-Victorian poetry 584, 712, and Imagism 803 718–23 reflection of Greek literature 800 dramatic monologues works Augusta Webster’s use 707–10 ‘Eurydice’ 728 Robert Browning’s use 622, 625, 626–8 ‘Hermes of the Ways’ 728 John Davidson’s use 713–15 ‘Sitalkas’ 797 Michael Field’s use 712 Towers Fall, The 859 Hardy’s use 750, 761 Trilogy 729 Kipling’s use 710–11 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Crime and Punishment dramatic verse 720 709, 714, 863 Lee-Hamilton’s use 719 double meanings, Hill’s use 942 Robert Browning’s use 718, 720 doubling, Chaucer’s use 82 Drayton, Michael 174, 208 Douglas, Gavin 96, 108–13 works works ‘Amour 32’ 163 Eneados 108–13 Ideas Mirrour 156, 162 Palice of Honour, The 108 Poly-Olbion 334 translates Virgil’s Aeneid 129 ‘Since ther’s no helpe, Come let us kisse Douglas, Keith 841, 859, 868–70 and part’ 163 Edward Thomas’sinfluence on 834 Dream of the Rood, The 11, 21 influence on Longley 960 dream-visions 38 Isaac Rosenberg’sinfluence on riddling tradition 16, 17–18 838, 839 dreams 38 works Chaucer’s use 81, 88 ‘Bête Noir’ 870 Henryson’s use 97 ‘Cairo Jag’ 869 in Piers Plowman 70, 72 ‘Desert Flowers’ 869 Scottish late medieval literature 96 ‘Poets in the War’ 869 Drew, Sarah, portrayal by Montagu 364 ‘Prisoner, The’ 868 Drinkwater, John, Victorian Poetry 706 ‘Sportsmen’ 870 Dronke, Peter 22 ‘Vergissmeinnicht’ 839, 840 Druids 378

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Drummond, William 136, 208 To my Honour’d Kinsman 299 on Jonson 193 ‘To the Pious Memory of the works Accomplished Young Lady Mrs ‘Happiness of a Flea, The’ 208 Anne Killigrew’ 297 Madrigals and Epigrams 208 Du Bartas, Guillaume de Saluste, Seigneur, ‘Of that Same’ 208 influence on Milton’s Paradise Drury, Edward (friend of Clare) 551 Lost 257 Dryden, John 272, 341, 344, 359, 513, 516 Du Bellay, Joachim 161 on Anne Killigrew 287 duality, in Old English poetry 19 approaches to poetry 288 Ducis, Louis (French painter), influence on on Chaucer 43, 81, 90 Hemans 571 concerns with religious allegiance 292 Duck, Stephen 362, 372 on epic 349 Thresher’s Labour, The 359, 372 learning 299 Duff, William, Essay on Original Genius,on literary appreciation 314 lyric poetry 398 mid eighteenth-century criticisms 398 Duffy, Carol Ann on Milton’s opposition to rhyme 333 works poetry 299 ‘Mrs Midas’ 995 political poetry 299 World’s Wife, The 995 relationship with fellow writers 281 Dugdale, Florence (Hardy’s second wife) 758 on rhyme 334, 336 Dun, Aidan satirical verse portraits 345 works satirises literary judgement 289 Universal 975 Swift’s hatred of 318 Vale Royal 975 translation of Virgil 110, 314 Dunbar, William 96, 102–8, 113 translations 295, 349 anticurial satire 105 use of epic and satire 351 treatment of fear of death 106 use of heroic couplets 495 works uses the critical term ‘tautology’ 289 ‘Done is a battell on the dragon blak’ 107 works ‘Lament for the Makaris’ 96, 106 Absalom and Achitophel 290, 299, 302–6, Thrissil and the Rose, The 103 313, 351 Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the irony 302 Wedo, The 104–5 Annus Mirabilis:The Year of Wonders, 1666 Dunn, Douglas 876, 988 258, 287, 300, 313 Duns Scotus, influence on Gerard Manley Astraea Redux 361 Hopkins 678 Eleonora 294 Dürer, Albrecht, Melancholia 691 Essay of Dramatic Poesy 300, 302 Durrell, Lawrence 859 self-presentation in 300 ‘Dutch’ 431 Fables ancient and modern 295, 296, 301 Dyer, Edward, Spenser’s views 137 Hind and the Panther, The 292, 293, 299, Dyer, Gary, on satire in nineteenth-century 303, 307, 310–14 England 494 Mac Flecknoe 288–90, 292, 299, 308, 351 irony 301 Easter liturgy, Dunbar’s use 107 use of Elisha theme 222 Easter Rising (1916) 769, 775 Medal, The 291, 299 Yeats’s attitude to 776 ‘Of Dramatick Poesie’ 260 Eastwell Park (Kent) (residence of ‘Preface to Ovid’s Epistles’ 288 Ann Finch) 360 relationship with Hind and the Panther Edgcote House (Leapor’s place of 311, 312 employment) 369 Religio Laici 292–3, 299, 303, 306–10 Edinburgh Review, attack on the Della ‘To the memory of Mr Oldham’ 292 Cruscans 488 ‘To my dear friend Mr Congreve’ 291 education, influence on poetry 373

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Edwards, Ken, ‘Drumming’ 978 on poetic self-expression 807–12 Egerton, Sarah Fyge 358, 359 praises Ford 728 ‘Emulation, The’ 360, 362 praises Yeats’s late poems 738 Egerton, Sir Thomas 195 on Romanticism 423, 426, 433 Egoist, The, ‘Special Imagist Number’ 791 Swift’sinfluence 326 Ehrenpreis, Irvin, on Swift 328 on Tennyson 607, 613 Eight Oxford Poets 861 theory of originality, influence on Geoffrey eighteenth century Hill 939 Hanoverian period, women’s poetry works 362–76 Ash-Wednesday 734 long poems 379 and poetic self-consciousness 815–19 and narrative 389–92 self-consciousness 821 and self-articulation 392 ‘Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with lyric poetry 397, 415 a Cigar’ 730 see also Gray, Thomas; Smart, ‘Burial of the Dead, The’ 833 Christopher ‘Burnt Norton’ 735, 816, 819, 820, 821 women’s poetry 358–62 ‘Coriolan’ 808 see also Akenside, Mark; Cowper, William; ‘Death by Water’ 813 Thomson, James; Young, ‘Dry Salvages, The’ 735, 820 Edward ‘East Coker’ 735, 813, 821 Eighteenth-Century Collections Online 561 ‘Figlia Che Piange, La’ 810, 822 Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Fussell, Four Quartets 729, 735, 859 Tillotson and Waingrow) 358 Hill’s criticisms 943 eighteenth-century long poems, and self-perception 819–22 transitions 391 ‘Game of Chess, A’ 812 ekphrasis 571, 572 ‘Gerontion’, poetic self-consciousness 812 elegies 136, 175 ‘Hollow Men, The’ 815, 816 ‘Enclosure elegies’ 551 impersonal theory of poetry 807 Exeter Book 11–16 ‘Interlude: in a Bar’ 808 Hemans’s use 570 Inventions of the March Hare 807 Macpherson’s use 414 ‘Journey of the Magi, The’ 814, 815 Milton’s use 233, 242, 246 ‘Little Gidding’ 735, 820, 821 Muldoon’s use 965 ‘Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The’ Old English poetry 11–16, 18 729, 808, 943 Ovidian elegy, Donne’s concern with 199 ‘Mandarins’ 808 Romantic women poets 562 Murder in the Cathedral 272 Eliot, George 379, 431, 677 ‘Opera’ 807 Eliot, T. S. 351, 830, 859, 863, 892 Poems (1920), quatrain poems 730 admiration for Swift 318 ‘Portrait of a Lady’ 810 agenda for Modernist verse 687 ‘Preludes’ 809 on allegory 68 Prufrock and Other Observations 729 on automatic writing 737 ‘Silence’ 807 on Byron 517, 518, 520 ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ 725, on Donne’s ‘Valediction’ 197 807, 819 on Dryden’sinfluence 295, 296, 315 Waste Land, The 70, 354, 725, 732, 742, on Imagism 729 810, 816 influence on Geoffrey Hill 942 influence on Hill 943 influence on Larkin 889 and poetic self-consciousness on King’s ‘The Exequy’ 207 812–15, 816 on metaphor 79 use in Ash Wednesday 818 on the Metaphysicals 193, 940 Eliot, Vivien (wife of T. S. Eliot) 733 on Milton’s use of blank verse 380 Elizabeth I (Queen of England) 152, 204 Modernism 729 Spenser’s attitude to 139, 145, 151–2

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Elizabethan period preoccupation with, Elizabethan England 155 critical appreciation of Tudor poetry 115 Shakespeare influence on Jacobean poetry 207 Rape of Lucrece 188 see also Campion, Thomas; Dowland, John; Venus and Adonis 186 Drayton, Michael; Shakespeare, Erskine-Hill, Howard, on Dryden’s Mac William; Sidney, Sir Philip; Flecknoe 288 sonnets; Southwell, Robert; ‘Esope’ 97 Spenser, Edmund Essay on Criticism 327 emblematics, Vaughan’s use 217 essays, concept 347 Emerson, R. W. 947 Essays and Reviews 631 Emery, Florence Farr (actress, friend of estate poems 203 Yeats) 781 etymology, Gerard Manley Hopkins’s interest Emmet, Robert 966 in 682 emotion, Wordsworth’s evocation 476 evangelical Dissent 626, 628 Empson, William 418 and education 619 on Coleridge’s Rime 465 effects on the Brownings’ literary Dryden’sinfluence on 315 reputation 617–19 on Pope’s attitude to rhyme 335 evangelicalism, Romantic women poets’ Some Versions of Pastoral 872 concerns with 562 Enders, Robert, Stevie 908 Evans, E. Estyn, Irish Folk Ways 927 Engels, Friedrich 618 Eve, Milton’s portrayal in Paradise Lost England, idyllic nature, in Spenser’s poetry 150 265–6, 267 England’s Helicon 173 Everyman 70 English Exclusion Crisis 290 Spenser’s views 136 (1679–81) 282, 299 as a vehicle for composition 54 effects on Dryden’s Absalom and ‘English’ poetry 988 Achitophel 304 Enright, D. J. 879 Exeter Book Riddles 11 works Exeter Book, The 9 ‘Baie des Anges, Nice’ 882 elegy in 11–16 ‘Evening in the Khamsin’ 882 as reflection on wisdom and experience 13–15 Poets of the 1950s: An Anthology of New religious works 24 English Verse, on the Movement riddles 16–17 880 translation 24 ‘Waiting for the Bus’ 882 Exeter, Marquis of (patron of Clare) 551 ‘entente’, Chaucer’s use 93 Exile’s Prayer, The 13 Entwistle, Alice, on Charlotte Mew’spoetry747 Exodus 10 epic Dryden’s views 349 Faber Book of Welsh Verse, The (1944) 871 Milton’s treatment in Paradise Regained Faber and Faber (publisher) 875, 918 269–72 fables 311 Pope’s attempt to write 347 fah 18 Pope’s views 338 ‘Fair Sex’ language 321, 323, 324 see also heroic poetry Fairer, David, on Yearsley’s poetry 374 epigrams, Jonson’s use 194, 195 Fairfax, Maria 203 Epilogue (periodical) 897 Fairfax, Sir Thomas 203, 226, 232, 249 Epistles of Clio and Strephon (Fowke and Fall, Milton’s treatment in Paradise Lost 256 Bond) 371 ‘Fall of the Angels, The’ 11, 22 epitaphioi 253 ‘Fancy’ 794 epyllia, Marlowe’s use 179 Fanshawe, Richard, on heroic poetry 258 eroticism Fantasy Press 938 Behn 285 Farley, Paul, ‘Interior, An’ 997 Marlowe’s use 180–3 Farley-Hills, David, on Rochester’s poetry 282

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Farrell, J. G., Troubles 959 City 971, 975, 977 ‘Fayrfax’ manuscript 133 Dow Low Drop, The 976 Felton, Nicholas (Bishop of Ely), Milton’s Furnace, A 975, 976 obsequy for 233 ‘Ghost of a paper bag, The’ 976 Fenollosa, Ernest 727 ‘Handsworth Liberties’ 975 Fenton, James 21, 986, 991 Long and the Short of It, The 976 critical appeal 970 Sign Illuminated, A 976 on Dryden’s use of triplets 293 ‘Six Texts for a Film’ 975 on elegy in Old English poetry 23 Fitzgerald, Scott, Great Gatsby, The 885 on Wilfred Owen’s poetry 830 Fitzwilliam, Earl (patron of Clare) 551 ‘Staffordshire Murderer, A’ 991 Flecknoe, Richard, Dryden satirises 288, 289 Fergus (King of Ulster), legends 768 Fletcher, Ian 880 Ferguson, Sir Samuel, influence on Yeats 769 Fletcher, John, Faithful Shepherdess,influence Festival of Britain (1951) 870 on Milton’s Comus 240 Field, Michael 589, 687, 706, 721 Flint, F. S. 787, 798 works Pound’s criticisms 794 ‘Cyclamens’ 589 works Long Ago 712 Cadences 798 Sight and Song 721 ‘Contemporary French Poetry’ 790 Underneath the Bough 722 ‘Swan, The’ 800 Fielding, Henry 389 Flowers, Betty, on Christina Rossetti’s poetry descriptions of heroines 320 670, 672 satirises Charles XII 353 Ford, Ford Madox 726, 787 Filmer, Sir Robert, influence on women’s Antwerp 728 poetry 359 Parade’s End 835 films, influence on Hill 945 Ford, John 664 fin de siècle 686 Forrest-Thomson, Veronica 981 Hardy’s sense 692 Forster, E. M., Passage to India, A 666 Fin-de-siècle (Micard, Jouvenot and Cohen) 703 Forsyth, Jimmy (industrial photographer) 978 Finch, Ann, Countess of Winchilsea 344, 358, forties poetry 858–60 359, 360 influence 875 works regionalism and pastoralism 870–2 ‘Nocturnal Reverie, A’ 358, 360, 374 Foster, John, on the ‘Romantic’ 419 ‘Upon the Hurricane’ 360 fourteenth century Finch, Heneage (husband of Ann Finch) 360 poetry 43, 47–54 ‘Findern’ manuscript 117 composition models 43 First World War vocabulary 54–6 effects on Imagism 802 see also Chaucer, Geoffrey; Gower, John; influence on poetry 725, 741, 824–6 Langland, William poetry 841 Fowke, Martha see also Owen, Wilfred; Rosenberg, Isaac; works Sassoon, Siegfried; Thomas, ‘Clio’s Picture’ 371 Edward Innocent Inconstant 359 Fisher, Allen 972–4, 975 Fox, Charles James 459 works fractals 972 ‘Birdland’ 972–4 franchise 715, 721 ‘Brixton Fractals’ 972–4 Augusta Webster’s concerns with 709 Gravity as a Consequence of Shape 972 François, Duke of Alençon 139 Place 971 Fraser, G. S. 861, 880 Place Book One 971 free verse, Eliot’s use 730 Fisher, Roy 76, 939, 975–8, 981 freedom works Blake’s concerns with 446 Birmingham River 975 Rochester’s poetic engagement with 281

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Freemantle, Bridget (friend of Leapor) 366, 369 ‘Ecce Homo’ 863 French poetry ‘Inferno’ 863 influence on English poetry 43, 44, 55 Gaskell, Mrs 677 influence on Gauguin, Paul, Vision after the Sermon, The, Chaucer 49 influence on Hill 945 late fourteenth-century English poetry Gautier, Théophile 663, 688, 730 52, 53 works metre, influence on medieval English Emaux et camées 696 poetry 45 ‘Symphonie en blanc majeur’ 895 French Revolution Gawain, Sir Beddoes’s reimagining of 549 literary treatment 32 Shelley’s views 533 see also Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Wordsworth’s attitude to 480 Gay, John 326, 328, 339, 362 French romances 26 influence on Lady Mary Wortley French wars Montagu 363 Barbauld’s response to 564 works Charlotte Smith’s concerns with 568 Shepherd’s Week 369 effects on Romantic women poets 562 ‘Tuesday: Or, the Ditty’,influence on Hemans’s response to 570 Leapor 369 Friedmann, Elizabeth, on Riding’s Word Geddes, Matthew (Cambridge scribe) 112 Woman 897 gender hierarchy, Milton’s presentation in Froissart, Jean 26, 37, 44 Paradise Lost 266 Frost, Robert gender-specific concerns, Romantic women influence on Edward Thomas 832 poets’ concerns with 562 ‘Tree at My Window’,influence on Paul Genesis Muldoon 963 creation account, Milton’s description frottolas 118 256, 259 Fry, Christopher, Lady’s Not for Burning, Hughes reworks 923 The 870 Genesis A and B 10 Frye, Northrop, on influences on Blake 443 genres Fuess, Claude, on Byron’s interest in satire 493 anti-Catholic narratives 226 fugitives 915 Christmas poems 234 Fulcrum Press 971 country-house poems, Marvell’s ‘Upon Fuller, Roy 859 Appleton House’ 225 Fuller, Loie (dancer) 778 pastoral poetry, Milton’s use 242–5 Furies, Shelley’s use 533 prospective poems 226 Fussell, Paul 358, 839 tears-poetry 214 concept of a ‘literary war’ 841 Marvell’s use 227 Great War and Modern Memory, The 827 George II (King of England) 331 Futurism 725 Georgians 739 Flint’s views 791 women’s poetry 362–76 see also Jones, Mary; Leapor, Mary; Gamble, John (composer) 254 Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley; Gamelyn 27 Yearsley, Ann Gardiner, Anne Barbieu, on Dryden’s Germ, The (periodical) 671 poetry 294 German philosophy, as Romantic 423 Gardiner, Wrey 858 Gertler, Mark 837 Gardner, Brian 825 Gezari, Janet, on Emily Brontë 638 Gardner, Helen 11 Gifford, William 494 on Christian belief in Eliot’s Waste Land 813 Gilbert, Sandra 900 Gascoigne, George (literary theorist) 156 Gilchrist, Alexander (biographer of Gascoyne, David 859 Blake) 454 works Gildon, Charles, on lyric poetry 412

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Gill, Jo Nightfishing, The 873 on Anne Sexton 908 2nd Poems 873 on Plath’s ‘Colossus’ 912 Selected Poems 874 girum 170 Seven Journeys, The 873 Gissing, George 706 ‘What is the Language Using Us for?’ 873 Glanvill, Joseph 590 White Threshold, The 873, 874 Glob, P. V., Bog People, The 929 Grandson, Oton de 48 Gloria Patri 14 Graphic (periodical) 692 God Graves, Robert 726, 742, 897 Milton’s portrayal 256, 272 influence on Heaney 930 wrath, Milton’s representation in Samson influence on Hughes 924 Agonistes 276 on Tennyson 598 Godden, M. 9 works Gododdin 871 Collected Poems 841 Godwin, Catherine 500 ‘Dead Boche, A’ 839 golden age, mythology, Behn’s attitudes to 283 ‘Goodbye to All That’ 841 Goldsmith, Oliver, Vicar of Wakefield, The 733 ‘Rocky Acres’ 742 Gonne, Maud (Irish nationalist) 772, 775, 776, White Goddess, The 876, 913 777, 782, 783 influence on Hughes 921 influence on Yeats 770, 780 Gray, Arthur (footman of Griselda Murray, Goodale, R. H. 693 portrayed by Montagu) 365 Goodere, Anne (addressee of Drayton’s Gray, John, Silverpoints 696 poetry) 163 Gray, Thomas 374, 397, 413, 500 goodness, Neoplatonic ideas 158 historical curiosity 399 Goodsir Smith, Sidney 870 influence on Blake 443 Gordon, Lyndall, on Christian belief in Eliot’s Milton’sinfluence on 239 Waste Land 813 use of explanatory notes 416 Gordon, R. K. 24 works Gore-Booth, Constance (Constance Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Markiewicz) 772, 775, 777, 781 374, 402 Gosse, Edmund, entry on Beddoes in the Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 402 Dictionary of National Biography 559 ‘Ode on the Spring’, sensibility 401 Gostlin, Dr John, Milton’s obsequy for 233 ‘Progress of Poesy, The’ (‘Ode in the ‘gothic’ 419 Greek Manner’) 404 Gould, Robert, Love Given O’er 359 ‘Sonnet on the Death of Richard West’, Gower, John 28, 43, 50–2, 57, 58, 63, 126 Wordsworth criticises 399 importance 58 Great Exhibition (1851) 617 influence on Scottish literature 96 great storm (November 1703) 360 literary style 76 Great War see First World War metrical uses 61 Greek Spenser’s views on 137 influence on Hopkins 680 use of French poetry 53 Spenser’s views 137 vocabulary 55 Greek dramatists, Hunt denies knowledge works of 490 Cinkante Ballades 50 Greek literature, and Imagism 795–802, 803 Confessio Amantis 51 Greek lyric odes 403 dialects and scribal practices 57 Greek mythology, Swinburne’s use 657 Mirour de l’Omme 50 Greek tragedy, Milton’s use 274 Traitié 50 Green, T. H., influence on Hill 944 Vox Clamantis 50, 86 Green, W. H. 677 Graham, W. S. 861, 873–5 Greenfield, Stanley B. 9, 10 works on Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry 8 Cage Without Grievance 873 on elegy in the Exeter Book 13

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order in which considers the poems 13 Hampson, Robert, Seaport 978 on riddles in the Exeter Book 16 Hanoverians see Georgians Gregory, Lady Augusta 772, 775, 781, 782, 784 Hardy, Emma Lavinia (née Gifford) (Hardy’s influence on Yeats 770 first wife) 739, 757, 758 Gregory, Major Robert (son of Lady Augusta Hardy, Florence (née Dugdale) (Hardy’s Gregory) 773 second wife) 758 Grierson, H. J. C., on Romanticism 429 Hardy, Thomas 687, 689, 739 Grieve, C. M. see MacDiarmid, Hugh ballads 747–51 Griffin, Dustin 281 classified as post-Victorian 706 Griffiths, Bill, Book of Spilt Cities, The 978 eccentricity 696 Grigson, Geoffrey 437, 897 influence 739, 741, 886 Grotesque, the 76 on Charlotte Mew 761, 763 Grundy, Isobel 362 on Hill 948 on Montagu’s authorship of ‘Town on Larkin 890 Eclogues’ 363 novels 751 Guardian, The 456 prose style 748 Gubar, Susan 900 as pessimist 691–3 Guillaume de Lorris, use of the courtly dream read by Gerard Manley Hopkins 677 vision 37 rhythm and metre 753 Guillaume de Machaut 26, 37 sense of time 751 Gunn, Thom 879, 919 use of rhythm 43, 756–60 works as Victorian and Modernist 746, 747 ‘Autumn Chapter in a Novel’ 883 works ‘On the Move’ 882 ‘After a Journey’ 739, 755, 757 Gunpowder Plot (1605), Milton’s verse ‘Afternoon Service at Mellstock’ 756 on 233 ‘Alarm, The’ 747 Gunston, Leslie (cousin of Wilfred ‘At Castle Boterel’ 757 Owen) 831 ‘At Middle-Field Gate in February’ 752 Guy of Warwick 27, 46 ‘August Midnight, An’ 752 ‘Before Life and After’ (Time’s ‘H.D.’ see Doolittle, Hilda Laughingstocks) 716 Hadfield, Andrew, criticisms of Skelton 116 ‘Birds at Winter Nightfall’ 692 hall gathering society, exclusion from as ‘Bride-Night Fire, The’ 747 poetic theme 14 ‘Burghers, The’ 747, 750, 759 Hall, J. C. (friend of Keith Douglas) 869 ‘Caged Thrush Freed and Home Again, Hall, John 981 The’ 692 Hall, Joseph 199 ‘Casterbridge Captains, The’ 747 Hallam, Arthur Henry 602 ‘Chapel-Organist, The’ (Late Lyrics and on Shelley and Keats 524 Earlier) 760 ‘On Sympathy’ 613 ‘Christening, The’ 758 on Tennyson 649 ‘Clock-Winder, The’ 751 in relation to Romanticism 606 ‘Convergence of the Twain, The’ 739 style 605 ‘Copying Architecture in an Old Halsband, Robert 362 Minster’ 751 Halsey, Alan, entry on Beddoes in the ‘Dance at the Phoenix, The’ 747 Dictionary of National ‘Darkling Thrush, The’ (‘By The Biography 559 Century’s Deathbed’) 692, 739 Hammond, Anthony, New Miscellany 371 ‘During Wind and Rain’, folk-song Hammond, Paul mannerisms 748 on Dryden’s involvement in political ‘Flirt’s Tragedy, The’ 748 controversy 290 ‘Hap’ 692 on Dryden’s translations 295 ‘Her Death and After’ 747 on John Oldham 292 Human Shows 761

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Hardy, Thomas (cont.) Harris, James, on music and poetry 415 ‘I Found Her Out There’ 755 Harrison, Antony A., on Christina Rossetti’s ‘I Look Into My Glass’ 756 poetry 674, 675 ‘In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”’ 836 Harrison, Keith 41 ‘Leipzig’ 747 Harrison, Tony 876 ‘Lines: To a Movement in Mozart’s works E-Flat Symphony’ 749 ‘Book Ends (1)’ 1001 ‘Louie’ (Human Shows) 756 ‘Cold Coming, A’ 842 Mayor of Casterbridge, The 747 ‘On Not Being Milton’ 1000 Moments of Vision 748 School of Eloquence, The 1000 ‘Mound, The’ (Winter Words) 761 ‘Them & [uz] (ii)’ 1000 ‘Musical Box, The’ 749 V 980 ‘Neutral Tones’ 692, 886 Harsent, David 40, 992 ‘Over the Coffin’ (‘Satires of works Circumstance’) 756 Legion 992 ‘Peasant’s Confession, The’ 747 Marriage 992 ‘Phantom Horsewoman, The’ 754–5 Hart, Kevin, on Hughes’s Crow 924 ‘Places’ 757 Hartley, Anthony, ‘Poets of the Fifties’ 879 Poems of the Past and the Present 692, 752 Hartley, David, theory of mental ‘Puzzled Game-Birds, The’ 692 association 389 ‘Sacrilege: ‘A Ballad-Tragedy’, The’ 748 Hartman, Geoffrey, on Tennyson’s ‘Lady of ‘San Sebastian’ 747 Shalott’ 608 Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries Harvey, Gabriel 136, 137, 138, 186 748, 827 Hatfield House 204 ‘Sergeant’s Song, The’ 747 Haughton, Hugh, on Clare 551, 560 ‘Shortening Days at the Homestead’ Havelok the Dane 27 (Human Shows) 761 Hawes, Stephen 116 ‘Singer Asleep, A’ 663 Pastime of Pleasure 133 ‘Snow in the Suburbs’ (Human Shows) 761 Hawking, Stephen 974 ‘Spellbound Palace, A’ (Human Shows) 761 Hawksmoor, Nicholas (architect) 974 ‘Sunday Morning Tragedy, A’ 748 Hay, Gilbert 110 ‘Tess’s Lament’ 752 Haydon, Benjamin Robert 429, 487, 526 ‘Throwing a Tree’ (Winter Words) 761 Hazlitt, William 551 Time’s Laughingstocks 716, 748 criticism of Crabbe 431 ‘Timing Her’ (‘Written to an old folk- horror at Byron’s ‘tissue of tune’) 748, 749, 751, 763 commonplaces’ 507 ‘Trampwoman’s Tragedy, A’ 748 on Marlowe 173 ‘Valenciennes’ 747 production of The Liberal 476 ‘Voice, The’ 755, 757 Spirit of the Age 497 Well-Beloved, The 758 on Hunt, Moore and Byron 488 ‘Wessex Heights’,influence on Edward on Wordsworth 424, 462 Thomas 835 ‘On manner’ 489 Wessex Poems and Other Verses 747 Heaney, Seamus 876, 926–33, 963, 988 ‘Where They Lived’ 886 comparison with Geoffrey Hill 939 ‘Wife and Another, A’ (Time’s on Dylan Thomas’sinfluence 920 Laughingstocks) 758 and Hughes 918 ‘Winter in Durnover Field’ 692 influence on Muldoon 964 Winter Words 886 interest in archaeology 968 Harefield, Milton’s Arcade performed 239 ‘sprung rhythm’ 41 Harington, John, ‘Briefe Apologie of Poetrie, on Stevie Smith 905, 906, 907 A’ 155 treatment of Viking influence on Harley MS 2253 (British Library (London)) 46 Ireland 929 Harley, Robert (Prime Minister) 327 on Yeats 781

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works Records of Woman 570, 571 ‘Anahorish’ (Wintering Out) 929 Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy: ‘Away From It All’ 931 A Poem, The 572 Beowulf 7, 19, 20, 24, 41 ‘Return to Poetry, The’ 557 ‘Blackberry Picking’ 928 ‘Statue of the Dying Gladiator, Bog Poems 928, 929, 930 The’ 572 Hughes’sinfluence on 923 ‘Widow of Crescentius, The’ (Tales and Death of a Naturalist 926, 928 Historic Scenes) 570 Door into the Dark 957 Hendry, J. F. 858, 861, 862 ‘Dylan the Durable?’ 927 on Dylan Thomas 860 ‘Englands of the Mind’ 988 ‘London before Invasion: 1940’ 861 Field Work 931 Henley, W. E. 687 ‘Glanmore Sonnets’ 931 In Hospital 590 North 928, 929, 933 Henniker, Florence, Hardy’s infatuation ‘Ocean’s Love to Ireland’ 930 with 758 ‘Punishment’ 929 Henrietta Maria (Queen of England; wife of Seeing Things 932 Charles I) 220 ‘Sheelagh na Gig’ (Station Island) 932 court masques 239 Spirit Level, The 932 Henry VII (King of England) 151 ‘Squarings xlvi’ 932 Henry VIII (King of England) 115 ‘Squarings xxii’ 932 ‘Henry VIII’ MS 118 Station Island 931 Henryson, Robert 96–102, 108, 113, 140 ‘Station Island’ 931 works ‘Strand at Lough Beg (In Memory of ‘Cock and the Fox, The’ 98 Colum McCartney), The’ 931 ‘Cock and the Jasp, The’ 98 Sweeney Astray 931 The Fables 97–100 ‘Toome Road, The’ 931 ‘Lion and the Mouse, The’ 97 ‘Traditions’ (Wintering Out) 930, 931 Orpheus and Eurydice 97 ‘Viking Dublin’ 929 ‘Preaching of the Swallow, Wintering Out 928, 933 The’ 99 Heath-Stubbs, John 861 Testament of Cresseid, The 41, 89, 97, Hegel, G. W. F. 433 100–2, 103 Heine, Heinrich 422, 435, 689 Herbert, George 211–16, 734, 989 Heinsius, Daniel 338 influence on Helena, St 11 Crashaw 223 Hell, Harrowing of 77 Geoffrey Hill 940 Hemans, Felicia 543, 544, 556, 569 Gerard Manley Hopkins 677 comparison with Landon 572 Vaughan 216 death 621 works Landon’s views 574 ‘Agony, The’ 215 works ‘Bag, The’ 213–15 ‘Casabianca’ 572 Christmas poems 234 Domestic Affections, The 557, 572 ‘Easter Wings’ 223 ‘England’s Dead’ 570 ‘Jordan (i)’ 212, 215 ‘England’s Graves’ 562 ‘Love iii’ 215 ‘Forest Sanctuary, The’ 570 ‘Perirrhanterium’ 216 ‘Graves of a Household, The’ 570 ‘Praise (2)’ 217 ‘Homes of England, The’ 570 ‘Pulley, The’ 217 ‘Image in Lava, The’ 570 ‘Superliminare’ 216 ‘Lost Pleiad, The’,influence on Emily Temple, The 212, 215, 216 Brontë 636 Herbert, Zbigniew 990 Poems 556 Herford, C. H. 429 ‘Properzia Rossi’ 571 heroic couplets 333

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heroic poetry Collected Critical Writings 944 Douglas’s use 110 on poetry 952 Milton’s testament 259, 260, 263 Collected Poems, irony 951 Restoration period 258 Collected Poems (1985) 945 see also epic Enemy’s Country, The 947 heroic traditions, Old English poetry 20 For the Unfallen 939, 947 heroism, Milton’s portrayal 268, 269 on the self 946 Herrick, Robert 202, 203, 205–6, 231 ‘Funeral Music’ 940, 942, 945, 950 works irony 951 ‘Corinna’s going a Maying’ 205 ‘Genesis’ 875, 939, 941, 946 ‘Delight in Disorder’ 206 irony 951 Hesperides 205 ‘God’s Little Mountain’ 946 Noble Numbers 205 ‘I loved the battle-anthems and the Hervey, Lord, co-authorship with gregarious news’ (Mercian Montagu 366 Hymns) 938 Hesiod, influence on Milton’s Paradise Lost 257 ‘In Ipsley Church Lane 1’ 945 Heuving, Jeanne, on Laura Riding 898 King Log 947 Hewitt, John 870 ‘Lachrimae’ 940, 945 Hibberd, Dominic 825 ‘Locust Songs’ 945 Hickes, George, reference to Beowulf 8 ‘Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, The’ 939 Higden, Ranulf, Polychronicon 55 Mercian Hymns 22, 938, 943, 945, 947, 950 High Beech (Matthew Allen’s private asylum), ‘Merlin’ 946 Clare committed to 552 Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy, The High Modernism 859 945, 947, 948 and Imagism 804 ‘On Reading Crowds and Power’ 937 Highgate Penitentiary, Christina Rossetti’s Orchards of Syon, The 938, 947 work at 675 ‘Our Word is our Bond’ 936 Hill, Geoffrey 875, 936 ‘Pentecost Castle, The’ 940, 945 admiration for Swift 318 ‘Pisgah’ 947 aesthetics 940–6 ‘Poetry as “Menace” and “Atonement”’ childhood and early life 938 941, 944 concerns with war 939 ‘Pre-Raphaelite Notebook, A’ 945 Dryden’sinfluence on 315 ‘Quaint Mazes’, Yeats’sinfluence 943 fascination with landscape 938, 939 Scenes from Comus 945, 947 Heaney’s views on 988 ‘September Song’ 941, 945, 947 historical sense 937 ‘Songbook of Sebastian Arrurruz, The’ influenced by music and painting 945 943, 945, 947 irony 951 Speech! Speech! 937, 941, 947 originality 939 on film 945 self in poetry 942, 946 irony 951 seriousness 936 Tenebrae 945 on Tennyson and Keats 604 ‘Terribilis est Locus Iste: Gauguin and theology 944 the Pont-Aven School’ 945 use of language 949–52 ‘To the Nieuport Scout’ 941 views of the past and memory 948 Triumph of Love, The 947 works ‘Two Chorale-Preludes’ 945, 947 Alienated Majesty, on the self 947 historical curiosity, mid eighteenth-century ‘Annunciations’ 942 lyric poetry 399 ‘Apology for the Revival of Christian historicism, attitudes to Byron’s Don Juan 518 Architecture in England, An’ history, teaching through poetry, fourteenth- 938, 948 century 44 ‘Bidden Guest, The’ 946 Hobbes, Thomas 258, 264, 307 Canaan 947, 950 influence on women’s poetry 359

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Hobhouse, John Cam 507 ‘I wake and feel the fell of dark, not Hobsbaum, Philip, influence 927 day’ 683 Hobson, Thomas, Milton’s epitaph for 236 ‘Lantern out of doors, The’ 680 Hoccleve, Thomas, Regiment of Princes 58 ‘Pied Beauty’ 587, 680 Hofmann, Michael Revaluation 706 works ‘Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves’ 682 Acrimony 993, 994 ‘Spring’ 680 ‘Dean Point’ 993 ‘Starlight Night, The’ 680, 681 Nights in the Iron Hotel 992 Terrible Sonnets 592 ‘On the Margins’ (Acrimony) 993 ‘Thou art indeed just, Lord’, on cultural Hogg, James 421 deterioration 688 Hölderlin, Friedrich 432 ‘Tom’s Garland’ 680 Holland, Philemon 142 Voice from the World, A 669–70 Holland, Richard, Buke of the Howla 96 ‘Windhover, The’ 587, 680 Holme, Constance, Charlotte Mew’saffinity ‘Wreck of the Deutschland, The’ 677, 678 with 762 Hopkins, Manley (father of Gerard Manley Holub, Miroslav 990 Hopkins) 676 Homer Horace 97, 195, 292, 515, 516, 697, 750 Dryden’s translation 295, 301 Byron’s use of 506, 509 Iliad, Austin’s criticisms 598 Dryden translates 299, 301 influence on Milton’s Paradise Lost 257 Hunt’s translation of 490 Pope’s translation 495 influence on criticised 398 Georgian women’s poetry 366, 367, 368 influences Elizabeth Barrett Marvell 224 Browning 620 Milton 232, 248 Pope’s views 337 Pope 340, 341–3 homosexual desire, Marlowe’s writings on 174 poetic theory 148 honnêteté 220 works Hood, Thomas 422 Ars Poetica 337, 347 ‘Calls, The’ 830 ‘Satires’ i.ix 288 Hopkins, David Horne, R. H. 622 on Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe 289 Hough, Graham, on modernism 738 on Dryden’s poetry 287 Houlihan, Cathleen Ni 492 Hopkins, Gerard Manley 7, 420, 577, 582, 672, Housman, A. E. 687, 689, 693–6, 826 676–83, 688, 706 influence on Geoffrey Hill 938 on Anglo-Saxon language 7 works Beowulf’sinfluence on 19 ‘From Clee to heaven the beacon Christina Rossetti’sinfluence on 669–71 burns’ 694 influence on Hill 944 ‘Into my heart an air that kills’ 695 and the natural world 586 ‘Loveliest of trees, the cherry now’ Old English poetry’sinfluence on 11 694, 890 on the ‘Romantic’ 422 Name and Nature of Poetry, The, sprung rhythm 31, 41 pessimism 695 works ‘On Wenlock Edge the wood’sin ‘Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of trouble’ 833 St Ignatius Loyola’ 586 ‘Shot! so quick, so clean an ending’ 695 ‘Easter Communion’ 677 Shropshire Lad, A 456 ‘Fraterna nobis’ 670 pessimism 693–5 ‘God’s Grandeur’ 680, 681 ‘“Terence, this is stupid stuff”’ 695 ‘Harry Ploughman’ 682 ‘When smoke stood up from Ludlow’ 694 ‘Heaven-Haven’ 677 Howard, Sir Robert (Dryden’s brother-in-law) ‘Henry Purcell’ 587 300, 301 ‘Hurrahing in Harvest’ 680 Howell, James 231

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Hughes, Glenn, rejection of Decadence 789 ‘Theology’ 922 Hughes, John, portrayal by Montagu 364 ‘Thrushes’ 922 Hughes, Ted 567, 875, 911, 912, 919–26, 939 ‘Wilfred Owen’s Photographs’ 829 admiration for Swift 318 ‘Wind’ 1 comparison with Geoffrey Hill 939 Wodwo 40, 922 on First World War’s literary influence ‘Wodwo’ 997 824, 825 Hugo, Victor 656 Geoffrey Hill’s criticism of 941 Huk, Romana, on Stevie Smith 907 and Heaney 918, 926, 988 Hulme, T. E. 428 influence on Muldoon 965 on classical poetry 425 works poetic theory 726 ‘Ancient Heroes and the Bomber Pilot, Pound’s criticisms 794 The’ 921 works Birthday Letters 908, 925 ‘Above the Dock’ 726, 793 ‘Black Hair’ 926 Complete Poetical Works of T. E. Hulme, Cave Birds: An Alchemical Cave The 794 Drama 926 ‘Embankment (The fantasia of a fallen Crow, theology 923–5 gentleman on a cold, bitter ‘Crow Tyrannosaurus’ 922 night), The’ 792 ‘Earth-numb’ (Moortown) 922 ‘Lecture’ 798 ‘Egg-Head’ 920 ‘Lecture on Modern Poetry’,on ‘Famous Poet’ 920 Decadence 791 ‘Fragment 1 of an Ancient Tablet’ ‘Notes on Language and Style’ 793 (Crow) 926 Hume, David, theory of mental association 389 Gaudete 925, 926 Hunt, John, publishes cheap editions of ‘Gog’ 922 Byron’s Don Juan 522 Hawk in the Rain, The 919, 921 Hunt, Leigh 422 ‘Hawk Roosting’ 921 assaults on literary tradition 490 ‘Incompatibilities’ 920 friendship with Byron 486 ‘Lineage’ 924 imagination of sound 490, 491 ‘Little Boys and the Seasons, The’ 920 praises D. G. Rossetti’s ‘Blessed Lupercal 921, 922 Damozel’ 651 ‘Man Seeing Experience Enquires His review of Moore’s Life of Byron 505 Way of a Drop of Water, style 496 The’ 920 on use of heroic couplets 495 ‘Meeting’ 921 use of satire 494 ‘Modest Proposal, A’ 919, 920 works Moortown 926 Captain Sword and Captain Pen 489 ‘November’ 922 on poetic style 495 ‘October Dawn’ 922 use of heroic couplets 495 ‘Pike’ 740, 921, 923 Feast of the Poets, The 488, 494 Poetry in the Making 922 Juvenilia 488, 490 ‘Revenge Fable’ 924 ‘Preface’ to Works, musical River 997 sensibility 491 ‘St Botolph’s’ 849 Story of Rimini, The 487, 490, 495 ‘Secretary’ 920 use of heroic couplets 496 Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Ultra-Crepidarius 494 Being 925 ‘Young Poets’, on Shelley and Keats 524 ‘Soliloquy’ 925 hunting traditions, treatment in Sir Gawain ‘Song’ 920 and the Green Knight 36 ‘Song for a Phallus’ 924 The Husband’s Message 16 ‘Strawberry Hill’ 922 elegiac nature 13 ‘Swifts’ (Season Songs) 922 Hutchinson, Sara 461

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Hutton, R. H., on Tennyson’s verse 603 see also Boland, Eavan; Longley, Michael; Huxley, Aldous, on Swift 322 McGuchian, Medbh; Mahon, ‘hylozoic poetry’, Dryden’s reaction to 289 Derek; Paulin, Tom Hynes, Sam, dating of Hulme’s ‘Lecture’ 805 see also Northern Irish poetry Irish Republican Brotherhood 772 iambic pentameters, Chaucer’s development irony of 49 Chaucer’s use 92 ideal mean, Jonson’s concerns with 204 Dryden’s use 299, 301–2 ideal readers, Dryden’s views of 303 Isidore of Seville, on tragedy 101, 102 idealism 427 Isocrates 253 identity politics, Augusta Webster’s concerns Italy with 707 literary influence on late fourteenth- Ignatius Loyola, St 587 century England 44 Spiritual Exercises 214, 680 unification, Swinburne’s views 665 imagination 390 Ives, Simon (composer) 254 Hill’s views 941 Keats’s concerns with 536–40 Jack, Ian and Romanticism 426 on Darley 560 theories of, eighteenth-century 383 on Hemans 557 Wordsworth’s concept 471 on Romantic poetry 418 Imagism 725, 787–8 Jackson, Adalbert (friend of Housman) 695 First World War’sinfluence 802 Jackson, Glenda (actress) 908 and Greek literature 795–802, 803 Jackson, Holbrook, on late Victorian Pound’s concerns with 726 poetry 687 in relation to Decadence 789–95, 798, 800 Jackson, Laura see Riding, Laura in relation to Symbolism 789 Jackson, Macdonald P., on authorship ‘Imagisme’ (Flint and Pound) 788 of Shakespeare’s Lover’s imitation, Dryden’s views 288 Complaint 189 Imlah, Mick Jackson, Moses (friend of Housman) 695 works Jackson, Schuyler (second husband of Laura Birthmarks 1001 Riding) 914 ‘Cockney’ 1001 Jacobean poetry see Carew, Thomas; Donne, ‘Empty Tumbler, The’ 1001 John; Herrick, Robert; Jonson, Lost Leader, The 1001 Ben; King, Henry; Wroth, Mary ‘Roseberry’ 1002 Jago, Richard, Edge Hill, on mental ‘Stephen Boyd’ 1002 associations 392 Ingelow, Jean 675 James, Henry 730 ‘Inglis’ 109 Turn of the Screw, The 420 inspiration, theme in eighteenth-century James I and VI (King of England and poetry 382 Scotland) 193 inter-textuality, Spenser’s Faerie Queen 147 Kingis Quai, The 96 Ireland use of rhyme royal 140 Elizabethan settlement reflected in James II (King of England) Spenser’s poetry 149 attempts to promote religious twentieth-century women’s poetry 962 toleration 310 Yeats’s nostalgia for 767 attempts to remove Roman Catholic Irish Civil War (1923) 779 political disabilities 293 Irish Independent 771 Coronation, Behn apostrophises 286 Irish national theatre, Yeats’s involvement Dryden’s ironic attitude to 302 with 770 Exclusion Crisis 290 Irish poetry James IV (King of Scotland) 102, 103, 108 and British poetry 918 James, John 981 late twentieth century 956 James, William 947

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Jameson, Margaret Storm, on Imagism 791 ‘Mystic and Cavalier’ 686, 700 Jamie, Kathleen Poems 696 works ‘Vinum Daemonum’ 700 ‘Arraheids’ 999 Johnson, Samuel 453, 731 Jizzen 999 account of the death of Charles XII 346 Queen of Sheba, The 999 ‘contexture’ 391 ‘St Bride’s’ 999 imitates Dryden 291 ‘Skein o Geese’ 999 on Ossian 443 Tree House, The 999 praises Milton’s Latin verse 232 Janowitz, Anne, on third-generation Romantic on Swift 327 poets 545 use of satire 352 Janus 81 works Jauss, H. R., ‘Alterity and Modernity of Dictionary,definition of ‘Romantic’ 418 Medieval Literature, The’ 25 ‘Life of Cowley’, on the Metaphysical Jean de Meun, use of the courtly dream poets 193 vision 37 Lives of the Poets 419 Jefferies, Richard, comparison with Charlotte London 352 Mew 762 Rasselas 343 Jeffrey, Francis 429 ‘Short Song of Congratulation, A’ 696 attacks the Lake School 421, 488 Vanity of Human Wishes 353, 354 Jenkins, Alan 992 Jones, David 871 Jennens, Susanna (Leapor’s employer) 369 works Jennings, Elizabeth 879 Anathemata, The 859 works In Parenthesis 839 ‘Afternoon in Florence’ 882 Jones, Glyn 871 ‘Island, The’ 880 Jones, Inigo 193, 252 ‘Piazza San Marco’ 882 Jones, Mary 358, 367 Jeoffry (Christopher Smart’s cat) 411 works Jerdan, William (publisher) 557, 572 ‘After the Small Pox’ 371 Jervas, Charles (portrait painter) 339 ‘Epistle to Lady Bower’ 366 Jesuits 587, 678 Miscellanies in Verse and Prose 367 Jesus Christ Jones, Ned (later Edward Coley hidden life 587 Burne-Jones) 650 imagery in Piers Plowman 55 Jones, Peter, Imagist Poetry 800 Milton’s understanding of 235 Jones, Steven, on Hunt’s use of satire 494 teaching, Shelley’s views 533 Jonson, Ben 516 temptations, in Milton’s Paradise Regained on Aristotle 338 268, 269, 270 compared with Donne 195, 196–203 Jiménez, Nilda, on Christina Rossetti’s compared with Dryden 300 poetry 672 estate poems 204 Joannes Secundus, influence on Milton 243 influence 192, 205–7 Job, Book of, Milton’s attitudes to 269 on eighteenth-century women’spoetry360 John (King of England) 446 on Milton 236, 237 Johnson, Arthur (physician to Charles I) 208 on Marlowe 174 Johnson, Esther (Stella; friend of Swift) 322–3, on Spenser’s poetry 136 328, 371 translation of one of Ovid’s Elegies 176 Johnson, Lionel 687, 689, 700, 703, 773, 794 on William Drummond’s poetry 208 works works Book of the Rhymers’ Club 701 ‘At court I met it, in clothes brave ‘By the Statue of King Charles at Charing enough’ 194 Cross’ 701 ‘Celebration of Charis, A’ 202 ‘Church of a Dream, The’ 703 Chloridia 252 ‘Dark Angel, The’ 701 ‘Conversations with Drummond’ 196

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Epigram 14 196 Kavanagh, Patrick 963 ‘Expostulation with Inigo Jones, An’ 202 influence 956 ‘Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme, A’ 202 on Heaney 918, 927 ‘For Love’s sake, kiss me once again’ 202 Kay, Jackie Forest, The 202 works Love’s Triumph through Callipolis 252 Adoption Papers, The 1002 Masque of Blackness 207 ‘Late Love’ 1002 New Inn, The 207 ‘Things Fall Apart’ 1002 ‘On Inviting a Friend to Dinner’, Kean, P. M., literary criticism of Langland 67 influence on Milton 248 Keats, John 337, 422, 428, 536–40, 542, 564, 606, ‘On My First Son’ 198 657, 739 Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue,influence on Charlotte Smith influences 565 Milton’s Comus 240 on Chatterton 410 Poetaster 325 comparison with Landon 573 ‘Still to be Neat’ 206 comparison with Shelley 524–30 Timber: or Discoveries 197 criticisms of Wordsworth 430 Timber, in the ideal mean 204 influence on ‘To Heaven’ 198 D. G. Rossetti 655 ‘To Penshurst’ 202, 203, 204, 360, 369 Gerard Manley Hopkins 677 ‘To Thomas, Lord Chancellor’ 203 Yeats 737 Underwood, The 202 odes, concern with imagination 538 ‘Why I write not of love’ 202 opposition to idealism 431 Josipovici, Gabriel, on Eliot’s Four Quartets 820 Shelley’s Adonais as elegy for 535 Jouvenot, F. de (playwright) 686 on style 577 Jowett, Benjamin 677 on Wordsworth’s imagination 480 Joyce, James 895, 989 Yeats’s views 775 and Imagism 800 works works Endymion 410, 525, 536 ‘I Hear an Army’ 801 comparison with Shelley’s Alastor Portrait of the Artist, as a Young Man, A 768 526–8 Ulysses 70 Eve of St Agnes, The 432, 500, 524, 536, 537 Joyce, Mary (Clare’s childhood love) 552, Fall of Hyperion, The 528, 540, 857 553, 554 Hyperion 528, 530 Judith 18, 24 Isabella 536 ‘Judith manuscript’ 9 ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ 573 Julian of Norwich 75 influence on Christina Rossetti 674 Julius, Anthony 731 Lamia 537 Jump, John, on Byron’s Don Juan 512 use of heroic couplets 496 Jung, Carl 859, 873, 923 ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ 527, 538, 571, Junius, Franciscus (Janus Jacobus Albertus) 797, 881 10, 11 influence on D. G. Rossetti 580 Junius manuscript, the 8 ‘Ode on Melancholy’ 539 Justa Edouardo King naufrago 242, 243 ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ 538, 642, 662 Juvenal 195, 292, 509 influence on Dryden translates 300, 301 Geoffrey Hill 941 influence on Pope 341 Hardy 692 Samuel Johnson immitates 352, 353 Tennyson’s liking for 604 ‘Ode to Psyche’ 539 K., E. 137 Sleep and Poetry 528 Kant, Immanuel 427, 432 ‘To Autumn’ 540 Kaske, R. E., literary criticism of Langland 67 ‘To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.’ 662 Katharine (second wife of John Milton) 251 Keble, John 688 Kavanagh, Denis, Blake’sinfluence on 927 Christian Year 592

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Kelsall, Thomas Forbes (Beddoes’s friend and Kroll, Judith, on Plath’s ‘Little Fugue’ 913 literary executor) 546, 559 Kucich, Greg, on the Spenserian romaut 499 Ken, Thomas (non-juring Bishop of Bath and Wells) 361 L. E. L. see Landon, Letitia Elizabeth Kendall, May 716 Laforgue, Jules 729, 892 works Lake School 421 ‘Lay of the Trilobite’ 716 Byron’s views 462 ‘Philanthropist and the Jelly-fish, The’ 716 Hopkins’s views 422 Kenner, Hugh Jeffrey attacks 488 on Eliot’s Ash-Wednesday 818, 819 Lamb, Charles 424, 487, 551 on Pound’s editing of Eliot’s Waste Land 733 ‘Lament of the Last Survivor, The’ (‘Lay of the rejection of Decadence 805 Last Retainer’) 12 Ker, W. P., on the ‘Romantic’ 421 Landon, Letitia Elizabeth 542, 544, 557, 571, Kermode, Frank 572–4 on Romanticism 424, 425 comparison with Robinson 569 on Yeats’s ‘Circus Animals’ Desertion’ 778 death 621 Kerrigan, John, on regionalism 3 works Keyes, Sidney 859, 861 ‘Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk. By Kiberd, Declan, on Yeats’s ‘Leda and the Stewardson, A’ (The Troubadour) Swan’ 779 574 Kidder, Richard (Bishop of Bath and Wells) 361 ‘Erinna’ (Golden Violet, The) 573 Killigrew, Anne 281, 287 ‘Fairy of the Fountains, The’ 573 King, Edward, Milton’s elegy for 242 ‘Felicia Hemans’ 574 King, Henry 206, 207 Golden Violet, The 558 works Improvisatrice and Others Poems, The 572 ‘Exequy, The’ 207 Improvisatrice, The 558 ‘To my Dead Friend Ben: Jonson’ 207 ‘Lines of Life’ (The Venetian Bracelet) 573 King Horn 27 ‘Lines written under a picture of a girl King, Kathryn P. burning a love-letter’ (The comparison of Jane Baker with Mary Improvisatrice) 573 Astell 287 ‘On the Character of Mrs Hemans’s on women’s poetry in the Hanoverian Writings’ 574 period 370 ‘Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans’ 574 kingly divinity, myth of, Dryden’s use 291 Troubadour, The (Catalogue of Pictures and Kingsley, Charles, Alton Locke,on Historical Sketches) 572 Tennyson 597 Venetian Bracelet, The 558 Kinsella, Thomas 21 ‘When Should Lovers Breathe Their Kipling, Rudyard 687, 716 Vows?’ (The Improvisatrice) 573 ballads 721 Landry, Donna, criticism of Yearsley’s Clifton use of dramatic monologues 710–11 Hill 374 works Lane, Sir Hugh (nephew of Lady Augusta Barrack-Room Ballads 583, 721 Gregory) 771 Barrack-Room Ballads: First Series 710 Langbaum, Robert 467, 718 ‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’ 583, 710 Langland, William 28, 57, 58 ‘Gunga Din’ 710, 711 figurative methods 70 ‘Recessional’ 689 literary style 64–7 ‘Screw-Guns’ 710 Piers Plowman 28, 43, 52, 137 ‘Tommy’ 710 A-version of 57 ‘Widow at Windsor, The’ 710 allegory in 68–72 Knox, Alexander, on mental association and attitude towards nature 69, 74–5 poetry 389 dialects and scribal practices 57 Krapp, G. P., edits Old English poetry dialogues 72–4 collections 8 dream visions 38

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literary appreciation 63 ‘Out in the lane I paused’ 890 literary style 63 ‘Poetry of Departures’ 888, 889 the grotesque 76 ‘Posterity’ 894 religious and satirical nature 68 ‘Sad Steps’ 895, 995 use of nature 77 ‘Ships at Mylae, The’ 890 poetic achievement 67–8 ‘Show Saturday’ 894 Spenser’s views on 137 ‘Sympathy in White Major’ 895 use of alliterative metre 55 ‘To the Sea’ 894 vocabulary 56 ‘Toads’ 887, 889 Langland, William [Robert] 59 ‘Two Portraits of Sex’ 888 language, Hill’s use 949–52 ‘Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed Lanyer, Amelia her hair’ 886, 890 estate poems 203 ‘Wedding-Wind’ 886, 890 works ‘Well, you’re a lucky girl’ 887 ‘Description of Cookham, The’ 203 ‘Whitsun Weddings, The’ 887, 891, 893 Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 203 Whitsun Weddings, The 892 Lapidge, M., 9 ‘Wires’ 889 Larisch, Countess Marie 744 XX Poems 891 Larkin, Philip 739, 879, 984 late Victorian poetry Heaney’s views on 988 ballads 721 influence 883 Decadence 697–703 reaction against Movement poetry 884 dramatic verse 718–23 on Stevie Smith 905 see also Davidson, John; Field, Michael; works Kendall, May; Kipling, Rudyard; ‘Annus Mirabilis’ 894 Lee-Hamilton, Eugene; Victorian ‘April Sunday brings the snow, poetry; Webster, Augusta An’ 890 Latin literature ‘At Grass’ 890, 992 influence ‘Born Yesterday’ 887, 891 Decadent poets 697, 699 ‘Church Going’ 882, 891 late fourteenth-century English poetry Collected Poems (1988) 890 50, 52, 53, 55 ‘Cut Grass’ 894 Spenser 137 ‘Deceptions’ 888 Latitudinarianism 292 ‘Dockery and Son’ 884 Laud, Archbishop William 232, 235 ‘Dry-Point’ 888 Laudianism 211 ‘Dublinesque’ 895 Lawes, Henry 220, 239, 240, 248 ‘Explosion, The’ 895 Lawes, William (composer) 254 Girl in Winter, A 889 Lawlor, John, literary criticism of ‘Going’ (‘Dying Day’) 890 Langland 67 ‘Going, Going’ 894 Lawrence, D. H. 726, 742, 835, 895, 922 ‘Here’ 881, 893 influence on Larkin 889 ‘High Windows’ 887, 892 on Swift 322 High Windows 894 works ‘Homage to a Government’ 894 Apocalypse 859 ‘Home is so sad’ 997 ‘Bavarian Gentians’ 742 ‘In the Grip of Light’ 890 Birds, Beasts and Flowers 742 Jill 889 Lady Chatterley’s Lover 184 ‘Larkin’ 894 ‘Snake’ 742 Less Deceived, The 887, 889, 891 Lawrence, Edward (friend of Milton) 248 ‘Less Deceived, The’ 891 Lawrence, T. E., Mint, The 833 ‘Midsummer Night, 1940’ 890 ‘Lay of the Last Retainer’ (‘The Lament of the ‘Mr Bleaney’ 887, 891 Last Survivor’) 12 North Ship, The 890 Lay le Freine 46

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Layard, Sir Arthur Henry 579 Lewis, ‘Monk’ 421 Leapor, Mary 358, 366, 368, 369, 373 Ley Hunter Magazine 972 works Liberal, The (periodical) 487 Crumble Hall 369 Liberty Bell 591 ‘Dorinda at her Glass’ 370 Liddon, W. H. 677 ‘Epistle to Artemisia. On Fame, An’ 369 Life of Adam and Eve 46 ‘Man the Monarch’ 369 Literary Gazette 557, 572 ‘Mira’s Picture: A Pastoral’ 369 literary inheritance, patterns of 222 Lear, Edward 592 Literature Online 561 Leavis, F. R. 826 liturgical calendar, as structure for Spenser’s on Eliot on Romanticism 426 Amoretti 161 New Bearings in English Poetry 426, 706 Livre des Eneydes 109 on Pound’s use of quatrains 731 Livy Lee, Sir James, eulogised by Milton 248 History of Rome, account of rape of Lee, Vernon 706 Lucretia 187 Lee-Hamilton, Eugene Macaulay’s use 584 works Locke, John, influence on women’spoetry Imaginary Sonnets 717–18, 720 359 ‘New Medusa, The’ 719 Essay Concerning Human Understanding 347 Leech, Clifford, on Marlowe 190 theory of mental association 389 Leeuwenhoek, Antony van 385 Lockhart, John Gibson 522 Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 689 on Byron’s Don Juan 515 Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of 151 loco-description poems 360 Leighton, Angela, on Charlotte Mew’s Lodge, David, on Larkin’s ‘At Grass’ 891 poetry 746 Lodge, Thomas 189 Lenin, Vladimir 742 Phillis 156 Leofric, Bishop 12 Lok, Henry 212 Leopardi, Giacomo, on pessimism 689 Lollards (Wycliffites) 58 Leppell, Mary 362 London, as New Troy 86 Letters from Iceland (MacNeice and Auden) 960 London avant-garde 981 Levenson, Michael, on Eliot’s Waste Land 732 London Browning Society 631 Lever, J. W., on sonnet forms 156 London Magazine 544, 551, 555 Levy, Amy 687, 708 London Review, criticism of Swinburne 663 ‘Xantippe: A Fragment’ 585 London University 617 Lewis, Alun 859, 866–8, 871 London ‘urbanist’ writers see Dun, Aidan; Edward Thomas’sinfluence on 833 Fisher, Allen; Sinclair, Iain works Longeus, imagery in Piers Plowman 55 ‘All Day it has Rained’ 833, 866 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 7, 895 ‘Burma Casualty’ 868 Longley, Michael 956, 960, 988 ‘Dusty Hermitage’ 867 works Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets 868 ‘Bjo¯rn Olinder’s Pictures’ 961 ‘Jungle, The’ 868 ‘Ceasefire’ (The Ghost Orchid) 962 ‘Karanje Village’ 867 Exploded View, An 960, 961 Last Inspection, The 867 ‘Fishing Party, The’ (The Ghost Orchid) ‘Orange Grove, The’ 867 962 Raiders’ Dawn and Other Poems 833, 867 ‘Ice-cream Man, The’ (Gorse Fires) 962 ‘Sentry, The’ 867 ‘In Memoriam’ 960 ‘Ward ‘‘O’’ 3b’ 867 ‘Kindertotenlieder’ 961 Lewis, C. S. ‘Linen Industry, The’ 960 literary criticism of Piers Plowman 65, 66, 67 ‘Linen Workers, The’ (The Echo Gate) 962 on Marlowe’s Hero and Leander 183 Man Lying on a Wall 960 on sonnets 157 No Continuing City 960 Lewis, Gweno (Alun Lewis’s wife) 868 ‘Skara Brae’ 961

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‘Swans Mating’ 961 Luttrell, Narcissus ‘To Derek Mahon’ 960 criticisms of Dryden’s Religio Laici 307, 316 Weather in Japan, The 961 Lydgate, John 126 ‘Wounds’ 961 influence on Scottish literature 96 Longville, Tim 981 use of rhyme royal 140 Lonsdale, Roger, Eighteenth-Century Women works Poets: An Oxford Anthology Fall of Princes 44 358, 561 Siege of Thebes 58 Lorca, Federigo García 859 Lyly, John, Endymion: The Man in the Moon 151 Louis, Margot, on Swinburne 666 ‘lyric appropriation’ 415 love lyric poetry 164 divine love, Langland’s description 63 courtly pastoral lyrics, Behn’s works 282 Hardy’s understanding of 758–60 disembodied quality 412 theme in Byron’s Don Juan 511 Drayton’s development 162 love lyrics 46 elegy, Gray’s use 402 Love, Nicholas, Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s use 630–1 Christ 55 Emily Brontë’s use 636 love poetry historical sense 408 Herbert’s attitude to 211 mid eighteenth-century 397 Ovidian love elegy, Donne’s use 195 pastoral lyrics, Behn 283–5 passionate friendship, Philips’s concerns performative elements 397, 410 with 220 ‘poetic diction’ 399 Petrarchan love complaint 194 ‘sensibility’ 401 see also Donne, John Spenser’s development 161–2 Lovelace family, influence on Mary Jones 367 Stuart period 211 Lovelace, Martha, addressee of Mary the visual 415 Jones 367 youthful presumption 406 Lovelace, Richard 374 Lyrical Ballads 371, 514 influence on eighteenth-century women’s ‘Advertisement’ (1798) 457 poetry 360 Coleridge’s contributions seen as Lowell, Amy 801, 939 ‘Romantic’ 418 ‘Garden, The’ 806 compared with Robinson’s Lyrical Tales 568 Imagism 787 critical importance 456, 457 on Imagism 800 identity 457 Lowell, Robert 886 pastoral nature 463 influence on Seamus Heaney 928 planning 463 Lowth, Robert, De sacra poesi Hebraeorum 411 poetics 468 Lucan publication regarded as the start of the influence on Milton 232, 257 ‘Romantic’ movement 428 Pharsalia (Civil War) 258 Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Lucas, F. L., on Romanticism 426 collaboration over 464 Lucas, Peter 10 lyrical drama, Shelley’s Prometheus ‘Lucasia’ (Anne Owen) (friend of Katherine Unbound 533 Philips) 220 Lucilius 342 Macaulay, G. C., on Gower’s use of metre 61 Lucrece, rape of, Shakespeare’s treatment of Macaulay, Thomas Babington, ‘Horatius’, 187–9 poetic voice 584 Lucretius MacBeth, George, scheduling of poetry into Dryden translates 301 radio programmes 903 influence on Milton’s Paradise Lost 257 MacBride, Major John (husband of Maud Ludlow Castle, performance of Milton’s Gonne) 776 Comus 240 MacCabe, Richard, on Spenser’s criticisms of Lud’s Church (Staffordshire) 977 Elizabeth I 139

1071

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McCaig, Norman 861, 870, 967, 989 ‘Postscript to Iceland’ 852 MacClean, Sorley 988 ‘Snow’ 852, 957, 1001 McColley, Diane Kelsey, on ‘zoic poetry’ 289 ‘Sunlight on the Garden, The’ 852 McCool, Finn 957 ‘To a Communist’ 852 McCrae, John 835 ‘Valediction’ 852 MacDiarmid, Hugh 726, 870, 988 Macpherson, James 397, 413 works challenges the ‘polite’ 415 ‘Bonnie Broukit Bairn, The’ 1001 historical curiosity 399 Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, A 999 influence on Blake 443 ‘Empty Vessel’ 1001 works ‘Second Hymn to Lenin’ 742 Ossian 418 MacDonagh, Thomas (Irish nationalist) 776 Temora 413 McGann, Jerome 428, 506 MacSweeney, Barry 978–81 on Byron’s Don Juan 512 works on Christina Rossetti’s poetry 672 Black Torch 971 on Crabbe 431 Book of Demons, The 980 on D. G. Rossetti 652, 653 Boy from the Green Cabaret Tells of his Don Juan in Context 519 Mother, The 971 on Romanticism 428, 430 Brother Wolf 971 on Swinburne 665, 666 Hellhound Memos 978 McGuckian, Medbh Pearl 979 works Maginn, William (literary critic), on Coleridge ‘Albert Chain, The’ 967 and Romanticism 420 ‘Blue She Brings with Her, The’ 967 Magna Carta 446 ‘Blue Vase’ 967 Mahon, Derek 956, 957–60, 988 Captain Lavender 967 admiration for Swift 318 ‘Corduroy Road, The’ 966 influence on Paul Farley 998 Drawing Ballerinas 966 works Flower Master, The 966 ‘Afterlives’ 959 Had I a Thousand Lives 966 ‘As It Should Be’ 958 Marconi’s Cottage 967 ‘Courtyards in Delft’ 959 On Ballycastle Beach 967 ‘Disused Shed in Co. Wexford, A’ 959, Shelmalier 966 960, 964 ‘To My Disordered Muse’ 966 ‘Glengormley’ 957 Venus and the Rain 966 ‘Globe in North Carolina, The’ 959 ‘Woman with Blue-ringed Bowl’ 967 Harbour Lights 960 Machado, Antonio 1001 Hudson Letter, The 960 Machaut, Guillaume de 26, 37 Hunt by Night, The 959 Macmillan’s (periodical) 671 ‘In Carrowdore Churchyard’ 957 MacNeice, Louis 851–4, 893, 895 ‘Last of the Fire Kings, The’ 959 influence 956 ‘Leaves’ 959 on Larkin 889 Life on Earth 960 Longley 960 Lives 958 Mahon 957 Night-Crossing 956 works ‘Rage for Order’ 958 ‘Autobiography’ 852 Snow Party, The 958 Autumn Journal 852, 853 ‘Spring in Belfast’ 958 ‘Bagpipe Music’ 851 ‘Unborn Child, An’ 957 ‘Belfast’ 853 ‘Walking among my own’ 958 ‘Brother Fire’ 863, 957 male inconstancy, theme, Romantic poetry ‘Casualty’ 957 491 ‘Mayfly’ 960 male poets, interaction with women’s poetry, Poetry of W. B. Yeats, The 851 eighteenth-century 358

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male superiority, Milton’s presentation in marriage Paradise Lost 266 constraints, Mew’s and Hardy’s concerns Malherbe, François de 333 with 761 Mallarmé, Stéphane 789, 966 theme, Victorian poetry 591 Mallock, W. H., Every Man His Own Poet: Or, Marsh, Edward The Inspired Singer’s Recipe Book ‘Georgian’ anthologies 725 596 Georgian Poetry 837 Malory, Sir Thomas 33, 63, 650 Marsh, Jan, on Christina Rossetti’s poetry 670, Malton, MacGregor (scholar, friend of 675, 684 Yeats) 781 Marston, John 199 Man, Paul de 427, 433 Martial 195, 199, 202, 697 Mancini, Antonio (portraitist) 781 influence on Mangan, James Clarence, influence on Jonson 204 Yeats 769 Milton 248 mankind, Milton’s presentation in Paradise ‘Martian’ poets 988, 990 Lost 264–6, 267 see also Raine, Craig; Reid, Christopher mannerism 501 ‘Martian’ vogue 986 Manning, Fredric, Her Privates We 833 Martz, Louis, Poetry of Meditation, The 212 Mannyng of Brunne, Robert 44 Marullo, influence on Milton 232 Manso (patron of Tasso and Marino) 246 Marvell, Andrew 203, 291, 315, 374 Mantuan, influence on Milton 243 works manuscripts ‘Eyes and Tears’ 227 circulation 219 ‘Flecknoe, an English priest at faulty copying 67 Rome’ 288 transmission, late fourteenth century 56–8 ‘Garden, The’ 226 Marcus, Jane, on Laura Riding 900 ‘Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return Margaret (sister of Henry VIII) 104 from Ireland, A’ 224 Maria, (daughter of Thomas, third Baron ‘Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Fairfax) 225, 226 Flowers, The’ 887 Marie de France 26 Poetical Recreations 227 Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso 725 ‘To His Coy Mistress’ 205, 285 Marino, Giambattista 208, 222 ‘Tom May’s Death’ 288 marketable domesticity, Elizabeth Barrett ‘Upon Appleton House’ 225, 360, Browning exploits 621 369, 894 Markiewicz, Constance see Gore-Booth, Marx, Karl 136, 618 Constance Mary II (Queen of England) 286, 362 Marlowe, Christopher Mary Magdalene 223, 227 compared with Shakespeare’s verse 190 Mary of Modena (wife of James II) 286, 360, 362 influence 173–4 Mason, Michael, on Lyrical Ballads 457 reads Piers Plowman 63 masques 239, 252 works Jonson’s importance 193 ‘Come with me, and be my love’ (‘The Milton’s involvement 239 Passionate Sheperd to His Love’) ‘Matchless Orinda’ see Philips, Katherine 173, 174, 179, 237 Mathias, Roland, on Hughes and Dido, Queen of Carthage 174 Heaney 919 Doctor Faustus 176 Matisse, Henri, influence on McGuckian 966 Edward II, 181 Maturin, Charles, Melmoth the Wanderer 673 Hero and Leander 173, 174, 175, 179 Maxwell, Catherine cited by Shakespeare 190 on Swinburne 658 compared with Shakespeare’s Venus on Swinburne’s aestheticism 663 and Adonis 184 Maxwell, Glyn 994 Ovid’s Elegies, 175–8, 179–84, 199 Breakage, The 841 Marot, Clément 137, 161 Mayhew, Henry 888

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Mayo, Robert Wordsworth’s concept 470 on Coleridge’s ‘Foster-mother’s Tale’ 466 Mew, Charlotte 726, 760–4 on early critical appreciation of Lyrical influence on Hardy 760 Ballads 456 as Victorian and Modernist 746 Mazzini, Giuseppe 665 works medieval literature 22 ‘A quoi bon dire’ 761 medievalism 429 ‘Arracombe Wood’ 762 medleys, eighteenth-century long poems 390 ‘Beside the Bed’ 761 Medoff, Jeslyn, on Behn’s poetry 287 ‘China Bowl, The’ 763 melancholy, Jung’s views 923 ‘Fame’ 761 meliorism 693 Farmer’s Bride, The 740 Mellor, Anne K. ‘Farmer’s Bride, The’ 761 on Dorothy Wordsworth 432 ‘Forest Road, The’ 763 on third-generation Romantic poets 545 ‘In the Fields’ 762–3, 764 ‘memes’ 27 ‘In Nunhead Cemetery’ 761 memory, Hill’s views 85 ‘Madeline in Church’ (The Farmer’s mental association, theory, and narrative 389 Bride), influence on Hardy 760 mental illness, definitions affect critical ‘Moorland Night’ 763, 764 assessments of Clare’s mental ‘Pécheresse’ 761 illness 552 ‘Pedlar, The’ 761 Meredith, George, Modern Love 576, 591 ‘Quiet House, The’ 740 Meres, Francis, on Shakespeare’s sonnets 170 ‘Saturday Market’ 747 Merwin, W. S., on Sir Gawain and the Green ‘Sunlit House, The’ 761 Knight 41 ‘Thing is found, The’ 763 metaphor, Eliot’s views 79 Meynell, Alice 687 metaphrase, Dryden’s views 288 Micard, H. (playwright) 686 Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Mickiewicz, Adam, Pan Tadéusz 886 Century (ed. Grierson) 207 micro-organisms 385 Metaphysical poets 193, 989 Middlebrook, Diane, on Ted Hughes and influence on Geoffrey Hill 940 Sylvia Plath 913 metre Mill, John Stuart 578, 721 alexandrines 327 antagonism to censorship 715 alliterative long lines 53, 55 Considerations on Representative Government 712 alliterative metre 50, 55 On Liberty 714 aureate verses 133 review of Robert Browning’s Pauline 621 ballad measure of fourteeners 122 Miller, William 592 blank-verse pentameter, Robert Milton, Anne (John Milton’s sister) 233 Browning’s use 627 Milton, John 301, 315, 402 Chaucer’s experiments 55 divorce tracts 255 five-stress couplets 110 early religious poems 234 Hardy’s use 753 elegies 233, 242 Milton’s use 237 epitaphs 236 ottava rima, Spenser’s use 140 influence on poulter’s measure 121 Blake 442, 450 Surrey’s use 130 D. G. Rossetti 655 rhyme royal, influence on court poetry 140 Geoffrey Hill 940 Spenser’s use 137 mid eighteenth-century lyric poetry 406 syllabic verse, late fourteenth-century 55 Pope 348 tetrameter, Swift’s use 320, 331 Wordsworth’s Prelude 473 triplets, Dryden’s use 293 invoked by Barbauld on women’s rights 563 trochaic pentameter, Robert Browning’s juvenilia 232 use 628 Latin verse 245, 246 use in the early twentieth century 747 Lycidas 231

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odes 233 Obsequies to the Memorie of Mr Edward opposition to rhyme 333 King 253 Paradise Lost 256 ‘Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is influence on eighteenth-century call’d Tragedy’ 273 poetry 380 ‘On his dore when ye Citty expected an pastoral poetry 242–5, 246 assault’ 248 as poetic standard for lyric poetry 398 ‘On May Morning’ 236 popular reception 458 ‘On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a reflected in Tennyson’s poems 604 Cough’ 233, 234 response to the Restoration 255, 257, 258 ‘On the Forcers of Conscience’ 249 on rhyme 334 ‘On the late Massacher in Piedmont’ 250 satire 248 On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity 234 shorter poems 231 ‘On the religious memory of Mrs sonnets 247–51 Catherine Thomason, my theological doctrines 255 christian friend’ 248 use of codas 680 ‘On the University Carrier’ 236 Voltaire’s rhyming 333 ‘On Time’ 235 works ‘Owls and buzzards, asses, apes and ‘Ad Joannem Rousium’ 247 dogs’ 248 ‘Ad patrem’ 231, 245 Paradise Lost 255, 256, 269, 515, 605 Arcades 239 Austin’s criticisms 598 ‘At a solemn Musick’ 236 compared with Paradise Regained 270 ‘At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge’ 233 farewell genre 204 ‘Book was writ of late call’d Tetrachordon, format 258 A’ 249 as heroic epic 259, 260, 263 Christian Doctrine 264 influence on Shelley 532, 534 Comus 231, 239, 240–2, 945 Mahon’s use of 958 De Doctrina Christiana 255 mankind in 264–6, 267 Elegy i 233 political theory 266 Elegy iv 233 Pope mimics 350, 352 Elegy v 234 presentation of Satan 10 On the Approach of Spring 233 style 261 Elegy vi 234 as theodicy 267 Elegy vii (love elegy) 233 Paradise Regained 255 ‘Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Arminianism 256 Poet, W. Shakespeare’ 236 as epic 269–72 ‘Epitaph on the Marchioness of heroism in 268, 269 Winchester’ 236 sources 269 Epitaphium Damonis 231, 246 ‘Passion, The’ 235 ‘How soon hath Time’ 247 Poems of Mr John Milton 231 ‘I did but prompt the age to quit their Psalm 114, verse translation 232 clogs’ 248 Psalm 136, verse translation 232 Il Penseroso 236–9 Psalm paraphrases 232 influence on Yeats 777 Readie & Easie Way to Establish a Free ‘In quintum Novembris’ 233 Commonwealth, The 280 L’Allegro 236–9, 240, 605 Samson Agonistes 255, 272–7 Lycidas 242–5, 246, 253 style 273 style 1 ‘Sir Henry Vane the younger’ 249 Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle see under Sonnet ix, ‘Lady that in the prime of Comus earliest youth’ 248 ‘Mee thought I saw my late espoused Sonnet x, ‘To ye Lady Margaret Ley’ 248 Saint’ 251 ‘To the Lord Generall Cromwell’ 249 ‘O Nightingale’ 247 ‘To My Friend Mr Henry Lawes’ 254

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Milton, John (cont.) Persian Letters 362 ‘Upon the Circumcision’ 235 ‘Pope to Bolingbroke’ 366 ‘Vacation Exercise’ 252 ‘Roxana’ (‘Monday’) 363 ‘When I consider how my light is ‘Satturday: The Small Pox’ 364 spent’ 249 ‘Town Eclogues’ 363, 364 Miltonicks 239 ‘Tuesday, St James’sCoffee House’ 363 mind, and nature, Wordsworth’s treatment Verses Address’d to the Imitator of Horace of 473 359, 366 Miner, Earl, on Dryden’s conversion to ‘Virtue in Danger’ 365 Roman Catholicism 293 Montague, Elizabeth 372 ‘Mira’ see Leapor, Mary Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de 347 misogynism, theme, Romantic poetry 491 Montefiore, Janet Mitchel, John (Irish patriot) 782 Feminism and Poetry 898 Mitchell, Bruce 18, 24 on Laura Riding 898, 900 Mitford, Mary Russell 432 Montgomerie, William, on Graham’s Seven ‘Moððe word fræt’ 16 Journeys 873 Modernism 726, 790 Month (Jesuit journal) 680 effects on Christina Rossetti’s Montrond, Comte de, guyed by Byron in Don reputation 676 Juan 515 in relationship to Victorian poetry 746 Moody, A. D., on Eliot on poetic self- see also Eliot, T. S.; Pound, Ezra consciousness 810 Modernists Moor, Thomas, Fables for the Holy Alliance 486 influence on Geoffrey Hill 942 Moore, Henry 865 popularity of Old English poetry 7 Moore, John, on Edward Thomas’s poetry 832 modernity, in Victorian poetry 576 Moore, Thomas Moir, David Macbeth (literary critic), on the cockney rhyming 490 ‘Romantic’ 421 friendship with Byron 487, 493 Mole,Tom,onByron’s commercial success 500 on Hunt’s use of heroic couplets 496 Molière, influence on Dryden 301 imagination of sound 490, 491 monist ontology, Milton’s views 264 style 497 Monmouth, James, Duke of 283, 288 works Behn apostrophises 286 ‘Anacreontic to a Plumassier’ 489 Exclusion Crisis 290 Corruption 493 portrayal in Dryden’s Absalom and Fables for the Holy Alliance 487, 494 Achitophel 305 Fudge Family in Paris, The 494 monodies 243 ‘Inconstancy’ 491 monodramas Irish Melodies 492, 494 James Thomson’s use 690 Lalla Rookh 497 Tennyson’s use 612 Life of Byron 505 monologues, E. B. Browning’s ‘Runaway ‘Parody of a Celebrated Letter’ 493 Slave’ 591 Poetical Works of Thomas Little, The Monroe, Harriet 488, 491 Poetry 837 ‘She Sung of Love’ 492 on Imagism 795 ‘Time I’ve Lost in Wooing, The’ 492 Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley 347, 358, Trifles 489 362–6, 371 Twopenny Post Bag, The 494 works ‘Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, The’ 497 ‘Epistle from Arthur Gray to Mrs ‘When I First Met Thee’ 492 Murray’ 365 moral commonplaces, Vaughan’streatment218 ‘Epistle to Lord Bathurst’ 366 morality plays, allegories 70 ‘Her Palace Plac’d beneath a muddy More, Anne (wife of John Donne) 195, 197 Road’ 366 More, Hannah 432 ‘Julia to Ovid’ 365 patronage of Yearsley 372, 374

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More, Sir Thomas 195 ‘Aisling’ 964 Morgan, Edwin 7, 875, 967 ‘At the Sign of the Black Horse, Book of the Dead, The 998 September 1999’ 965 ‘Glasgow Sonnets’ (From Glasgow to ‘Duffy’s Circus’ 963 Saturn) 978 ‘Gathering Mushrooms’ 964 Morley, John, criticisms of Swinburne 662 ‘Herm’ 965 Morning Chronicle 492 Horse Latitudes 965 Morrice, Roger, ‘Entering Books’ 316 ‘Incantata’ (The Annals of Chile) 965 Morris, Jane (wife of William Morris) 665 ‘Lull’ 963 Morris, Mark (choreographer), influence on Madoc: A Mystery 964 Hill 945 Meeting the British 964 Morris, William 618, 649 Moy Sand and Gravel 965 aestheticism 698 Mules 963 favourable views of Robert Browning’s New Weather 963 Sordello 621 Quoof 964 praises D. G. Rossetti’s Poems (1870) 664 ‘7, Middagh Street’ 964 works ‘Sightseers, The’ 992 DefenceofGuenevereandOtherPoems,The 649 ‘Sillyhow Stride’ 965 ‘Defence of Guenevere, The’ 656, 660 Why Brownlee Left 963 Earthly Paradise, The 649 ‘Wind and Tree’ 963 Morrison, Blake 970 Mulgrave, Earl of (supporter of James II) 288 on Hobsbaum’sinfluence 927 Munns, Jessica, on Behn 283, 284, 285 on Larkin’s ‘At Grass’ 891 Murphy, William, on Yeats’s John Sherman 767 on Larkin’s ‘Church Going’ 891 Murphy, William (newspaper magnate) 771 on the Movement 879, 884 Murray, Griselda (friend of Montagu) 365 Morte Arthure 28, 33, 50 Murray, John 487 Moschus, influence on Milton 243 Murry, John Middleton Moseley, Humphrey (Milton’s publisher) 231 on Blake 454 Motion, Andrew 970, 986 on Romanticism 423 ‘Long Story, A’, ‘Serenade’ 991 Muscatine, Charles, on Chaucer’s poetics 90 Mottram, Eric, on the British Poetry music Revival 985 Elizabethan theory 164 Movement 875, 879, 884, 919 influence on comparison with Seamus Heaney 927 Hill 945 critical reaction to 882–4 lyric poetry 415 Davie and Larkin’s reactions against 884 links with Imagism 788, 789, 790, 792, 796, Geoffrey Hill’s involvement with 939 798, 800 see also Amis, Kingsley; Enright, D. J.; Myers, F. W. H., on D. G. Rossetti’s Gunn, Thom; Jennings, aestheticism 654 Elizabeth; Larkin, Philip ‘mynen’ 86 Moxon, Edward (publisher) 580 myth Muir, Edwin 13, 872 and the artistic process 860 works Spenser’s use 152 ‘Horse, The’ 872 ‘Interrogation, The’ 872 naming, significance, Jonson’sconcernswith198 ‘Labyrinth, The’ 872 Narcissus myth, Milton’s presentation 265 Muldoon, Maureen (sister of Paul narrative Muldoon) 965 in eighteenth-century long poems 389–92 Muldoon, Paul 492, 963–5, 988, 992 Emily Brontë’s use 636 Byron’sinfluence 518 Old English poetry 19 critical appeal 970 Nashe, Thomas 199 on poetry 3 Choice of Valentines, The (Nashe His Dildo) 178 works Unfortunate Traveller, The 164

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Nashville Prize 915 Etudes de moeurs et de critique sur les poètes Nation, The (periodical) 831 latins de la décadence 697 National Aeronautics and Space Noakes, Vivien 825 Administration (NASA) 914 nonsense poems, Victorian period 593 National Poetry Centre 970 Noot, Jan van der 161 National Reformer 689 Nordau, Max natural world Degeneration 688 Charlotte Smith’s concerns with 566 on Decadence 791 Victorian poetry’s reactions to 586–90 North Country, ballads 419 nature Northamptonshire General Lunatic Asylum, Barbauld’s concerns with 564 Clare committed to 552 Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel 304 Northern Homily Cycle 44 eighteenth-century concepts 336 Northern Irish poetry 988, 992–8 Langland’s attitude to 69, 74–5, 77 see also Irish poetry Milton’s views 235, 241 Northumbria, MacSweeney’s regional poetic descriptions 386–9 poetry 979 return to, as mark of Romanticism 429 novels Rochester’s poetic responses to 281 Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s response to Tennyson’s responses to 600 628–30 Thomson’s descriptions 384, 385 Robert Browning’s responses to 627 Wordsworth’s views 74, 75, 473 sensation novels 663 Nelson, Deborah, on Sylvia Plath 908 Tennyson’s responses to 603 Neoplatonism Victorian market for 580 on goodness 158 nursery poetry, Victorian period 592 influence on Katherine Philips 220 Nye, Robert, on Laura Riding’s poetry 897 Nevinson, C. R. W. 837 New Apocalypse 858, 860 Oates, Titus, portrayal in Dryden’s Absalom New Apocalypse, The (ed. Treece and and Achitophel 304 Hendry) 858 O’Brien O’Keeffe, K. 9 New Criticism, responses to Tennyson’s O’Brien, Sean ‘Lady of Shalott’ 608 works ‘New Generation’ promotion (1993) ‘Boundary Beach’ 995 970, 998 Drowned Book, The 996 New Lines 891 ‘Dundee Heatwave’ 995 New Monthly Magazine, Hemans’s works ‘Essay on Snow’ 995 published 557 ‘Somebody Else’ 995 New Poetry, The (1993) 992 octosyllabic couplets, Gower’s use 51 New Poetry, The (ed. Alvarez), Geoffrey Hill’s odes 416 inclusion in 939 O’Donoghue, Bernard 968 New Verse (periodical) 858 works Newcastle upon Tyne, MacSweeney’s ‘Iron Age Boat at Caumatruish, regional poetry 979 The’ 968 Newman, John Henry 618, 677, 688 ‘Nun Takes the Veil, A’ 968 Newnes, George (publisher) 826 ‘O’Regan the Amateur Anatomist’ 968 Newnham College (Cambridge) 585 ‘State of the Nation, The’ 968 Nicholas I, Czar 433 Ogden, C. K. 826 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 691 Oh, What a Lovely War 828 Birth of Tragedy, The 808 Old English poetry 21 nightingales elegies 18 in poetic tradition 466 heroic traditions 20 symbolism used by Chaucer 86, 88 influence 7, 11 Nine Years’ War 150 possible religious nature 9 Nisard, Désiré 697 as reflection on wisdom and experience 13–15

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riddles 16–18 works survival 8 Amores 184 Old English prose 22 Marlowe’s translation 175–8 Older Scots 96 Elegies 187 Oldham, John 281, 301 Heroides 50 Dryden commemorates 299, 305 Metamorphoses 188 translations of Horace and Juvenal 292 xv, Dryden’s translation 290 works, Satyres upon the Jesuits 291 Chaucer’s use 87 O’Leary, John (Irish patriot) 772 compared with Shakespeare’s Venus Oliver, Douglas 981 and Adonis 184 Olson, Charles, Geoffrey Hill’s criticism Ovide Moralisé, Chaucer’s use 87 of 941 Owen, Anne(‘Lucasia’) (friend of Katherine ‘On Doctor Dryden’s coming over to the Philips) 220 Provost of Trinity College’ 317 Owen, Wilfred 824, 825, 828–32, 837, 841, 845 O’Neill, Michael 882, 892 influence 862 on Amis and Romanticism 882 Sassoon’sinfluence 826 on Byron’s Don Juan 511 works on Hunt’s use of heroic couplets 496 ‘A Terre’ 830, 831, 838 on Yeats’s ‘Circus Animals’ Desertion’ 783 ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ 827 Onions, John 825 ‘Apologia pro poemate meo’ 829, 830 ontology, Barbauld’s interests in 565 ‘Asleep’ 830 opera singers, slavery, Byron’s account 521 ‘Dead Beat, The’ 829 opposites, reconciliation, Eliot’s Four ‘Disabled’ 830 Quartets 819 ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ 741, 828, ordinary, poetry of 431–3 829, 830 Orgel, Stephen, on Marlowe 175 ‘Exposure’ 830, 831 Ormond, Duchess of, Dryden’s epistle ‘From my Diary, July 1914’ 830 to 305 ‘Futility’ 831, 834 Ormond, Duke of, portrayal in Dryden’s ‘Insensibility’ 830 Absalom and Achitophel 305 ‘Mental Cases’ 828, 830 Ormulum 44, 47 ‘Miners’ 831, 834 Orwell, George 496, 840 ‘Parable of the Old Man and the Young, Ossian 397, 399 The’ 830 see also Macpherson, James ‘Send Off, The’ 830 Ossory, Earl of, portrayal in Dryden’s Absalom ‘Sentry, The’ 830 and Achitophel 305 ‘Show, The’ 829, 830 Oswald, Alice ‘Spring Offensive’ 829, 832, 839 works ‘Strange Meeting’ 741, 831, 838, 841 Dart 997 Wipers Times 838 ‘Prayer’ 996 Owl and the Nightingale, The 45 ‘Sea Poem’ 997 Oxford Bodleian Library, Junius 11 10 ‘Woman in a Mustard Field’ 997 Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, Woods etc. 997 The (ed. Larkin) 739 ottava rima Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, The 706 Byron’s use 501 Oxford English Literary History 984 in Don Juan 510, 513 Oxford Movement, influence on Gerard Wyatt uses 131 Manley Hopkins 677 Yeats’s use 778, 781 outrides, Gerard Manley Hopkins’s use of 681 Paine, Thomas, in Rights of Man, The 447 Ovid 697 painting, influence on Hill 945 account of rape of Lucrece 187 Paladin Poetry series 981 Dryden’s translation 295, 299, 301 Pall Mall Gazette, criticises Symons 699 influence on Milton 232, 233, 240, 257 Palmer, Samuel, Blake’sinfluence on 454

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Paltrow, Gwyneth (actress) 908 pattern, ordering principle 819 pamphlet warfare, attacks on Dryden 313 Patterson, Annabel, on Dryden’s Hind and the paraphrase, Dryden’s views 288 Panther 293 pararhyme Paul, St, teaching on chastity 146 Auden’s use 845 Paulin, Tom 982, 988 Owen’s use 830 on Larkin’s ‘Cut Grass’ 894 Pareus, David, Milton quotes 279 works Paris Psalter and The Meters of Boethius, The 10 ‘Ballywaire’ 967 ‘parliament of birds’ fables 96 ‘Book of Juniper, The’ 967 Parnassus plays 186 ‘Caravans on Lüneburg Heath, The’ 968 Parnell, Thomas 339, 362, 369 ‘Desertmartin’ 967 works Fivemiletown 967 ‘Elegy to An Old Beauty’ 370 ‘Harbour in the Evening, The’ 967 ‘Night-Piece on Death’ 360 ‘In the Lost Province’ 967 paronomasia 198 In a State of Justice 967 Parsons, I. M. 825 Invasion Handbook, The 967 passion, Wordsworth’s concept 470 Liberty Tree 967 Passion of St Juliana, The 24 ‘Lyric Afterwards, A’ 967 Passionate Pilgrim, The 173 State of Justice 992 past, Hill’s views 947 Strange Museum, The 967 Pasternak, Boris, Poems of Doctor Zhivago, Wind Dog, The 968 The 886 Paullet, Jane, Milton’s epitaph for 236 pastoral poetry 194 Paulson, Ronald, on Dryden’s poetry 291 Milton’s use 246 Paxton, Sir Joseph 582 Pope’s views 335, 338 Peacock, Thomas Love, Nightmare Abbey 517 Spenser’s use 137, 149 Peake, Charles, Poetry of the Landscape and of Wordsworth 463 the Night 358 Pastorals 327 Pearl 29, 30, 75 Pater, Walter 659, 796 literary style 76 on aesthetic poetry 649 and romance traditions 37–40 on sixteenth-century French poetry 700 Pearse, Patrick (Irish nationalist) 769, 775, 776 works Peel, Robin Renaissance, The on Laura Riding 903 ‘Conclusion’ 694 on Plath 917 ‘Preface’, and Decadence 697 and Riding 913 ‘School of Giorgione, The’ 698 Pembroke, Mary Sidney, Countess of 204 Paterson, Don penance, sacrament 44 works Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry, The ‘Chartres of Gowrie, The’ 1001 (1982) 988 ‘Elliptical Stylus, An’ 999 Penguin Books 456 God’s Gift to Women 1001 Percy, Bishop, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Landing Light 1001 419, 423, 459 Patience 29, 30 Perelman, Bob, influence on Hill 946 narrative inventiveness 30, 31 Perkins, David uses of riddling 38 on literary classification 428 patriotism, forties poetry 870–2 on the ‘Romantic’ in the nineteenth patronage 203, 372 century 422 Clare benefits from 551 Persius, Dryden translates 300, 301 Dryden’s attempts to secure 288 personal salvation, Donne’s concern Milton’s views 246 with 195 Robinson on 569 pessimism, late Victorian poetry 689–93 Victorian period 582 Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) 160 Yeats’s views 770–2 influence on

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Milton 243, 247 works Sidney 157 Phaedo,influence on Milton’s Comus 240 sonnets 155 Phaedrus, on beauty 159 works Pléiade, La 155 Canzoniere or Rime Sparse,influence 155 plenitude, theory of 388 De obedientia ac fide uxoria mythologiae 44 Plutarch, Lives 289 Rime 138, 190 119, 126 Poe, Edgar Allan 789 Petrarchan sonnets 165 Poems upon Several Occasions (Behn and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s use 624 Tonson) 282 Robinson’s use 569 poesis 404, 405 Phelan, J. P., on Clough’s Amours de Voyage 645 Poet Laureateship, Dryden’s loss of 291 Phelps, William Lyon, on Romanticism poetic artistry, Herbert’s views 216 422–3 poetic interchange 221 Philip of Macedon 253 poetic maturation 348 Philips, Ambrose 335 poetic self-consicousness, Eliot’s views, Philips, Katherine 219–21 Ash-Wednesday 815–19 Cowley’s Pindaric ode to 230 poetry response to the Civil Wars 224 blank-verse poetry, eighteenth century ‘Friendship’s mysterys’ 220 379–82 Phillips, Edward, on Milton’s Paradise composition models, late fourteenth Regained 268 century, poetry 43 Phillips, Edward (English publisher) 208 creative power 1 Phillips, Edward (Milton’s nephew) 252, 257 formal and aesthetic features 3 Phillips, Wendell 999 Hill’s views 937, 952 Picasso, Pablo, influence on McGuckian 967 language agenda in 985 Pierre de Langtoft, Chronicle 45 links with biography 467 Piers Plowman see Langland, William lyric poetry, Puritan criticisms 155 Piette, Adam, on Keith Douglas’s poetry 869 and politics, Yeats’s views 775–9 Pilkington, Laetitia 358 ‘pre-Romantic’ poetry 379 Pindar 403 as a religious force, Wordsworth’sviews462 Pindarics 404 role, Tudor period 126 Arnold’s use 635 and truth, Chaucer’s treatment 93 Gerard Manley Hopkins’s use 678 written transmission of medieval English Pinkney, Tony, on Eliot and poetic self- poetry 46 consciousness 810 Poetry (Imagist periodical) 788 plagiarists, Donne’s contempt for 200 Poetry (London) (periodical) 858 Plath, Sylvia 567, 875, 904, 908, 914, 925, Poetry Now (radio programme) 903 926, 939 Poetry Quarterly (periodical) 858 works Poetry Review (periodical) 970, 984 Ariel 908, 909, 913 Poetry Society, and the British Poetry Colossus, The 912 Revival 970 ‘Colossus, The’ 912 Poet’s Voice, The (radio programme) 903 ‘Gulliver’ 908 politics Journals 908 Barbauld concerns with 563 ‘Lady and the Earthenware Head, Behn’s involvement in 286 The’ 911 Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel 303 ‘Little Fugue’ 913 Dryden’s involvement in 290, 299, 302 ‘Sculptor’ 911 and poetry, Yeats’s views 775–9 ‘Three Women: A Poem for Three Pollet, Maurice 693 Voices’ 909, 911 Pollexfen, George (astrologer) 773 Plato Pope, Alexander 281, 359, 362, 438, 513, 515, 516, attitude to poetry 155 518, 522 on ideas 162 admired by Swift 318, 319, 324

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Pope, Alexander (cont.) First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, antagonism to Montagu 365 Imitated 328, 340 on art 336 Iliad 329, 349 attempts epic poetry 347 Moral Essays 329, 343, 344, 347 Byron’s views 501, 503 Odyssey 349 compared with Swift 326–7, 329 One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Dryden’sinfluence 291, 293, 295 Eight (Epilogue to the Satires) 342, essays 347 352 influence Peri Bathous or, The Art of Sinking in Poetry, Elizabeth Barrett Browning 620 mocks Behn’s ‘Golden Age’ 283 Hill 943 Rape of the Lock, The 319, 320, 334, 349, Keats attacks 528 363, 514 women’s poetry 359, 366, 368, 371 as epic and satire 350 influence of classical literature 340–3 influence on Leapor 370 pastorals 338 rhyming structure 335 portrayals of domesticity 364 Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, praises Shakespeare 419 Imitated 355 repudiates burlesque 319 Second Satire of the Second Book of on the ruling passions 345 Horace 366 satirical couplets, imitated by Byron 510 To a Lady: Of the Characters of Women theodicy 343–5 346, 366 translation of Homer 398, 495, 620 Windsor-Forest 334, 338, 345, 349, 351, 360, 374 use of heroic couplets 494 pornography 178 use of rhyme 333 Porter, Peter, ‘Exequy, (An)’ 207 versification of Donne’s satires 201 Porter, Roy, on Clare’s mental illness 552 works Portfolio (society for women artists), Christina ‘Alcander, Prince of Rhodes’ 349 Rossetti’smembership675 ‘Discourse on Pastoral Poetry, A’ 335 Portland, Duchess of 392 Dunciad, The 319, 330, 349, 351, 366 Positivism 692 as epic satire 351 postmodernism, attitudes to Byron’s influence on Byron 509 Don Juan 518 Dunciad Variorum, admiration for Pound, Ezra 7, 736, 798, 886 Swift 320 on Eliot’s Modernism 729 ‘Eloisa to Abelard’ 365, 375, 513, 669 favourable views of Robert Browning’s Epilogue to the Satires 340 Sordello 621 Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 331, 339, 341, 346, free verse 736 366, 367, 368, 369 and Geoffrey Hill 936, 943 compositional practices 378 Imagism 726, 787, 795 Epistle to Bathurst 345 influence 732, 733 Epistle to Burlington 366, 369 praises Eliot’s Waste Land 726 Epistle to Cobham (‘Of the Characters of reflection of Greek literature 800 Men’) 344 use of metre 747 Epistle to a Lady: Of the Characters of versions of Anglo-Saxon poems 40 Women, An 323, 345 and Vorticism 729, 803 ‘Epistles to Several Persons’ 347 works Essay on Criticism, An 327, 334, 337, 347 Cantos, The 729 Essay on Man 343, 346, 347, 366 Cathay 727 character portrayals 345 Des Imagistes 725, 728, 787, 792, 795, 798 Miltonic evocations 348 ‘Doria’ 801 ‘Ethic Epistles, The Second Book’ 347 ‘Few Don’ts by an Imagiste, A’ 788 ‘First Book of Ethic Epistles, The’ 347 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 731, 943 First Satire of the Second Book of ‘In a Station of the Metro’ 727 Horace 331 ‘Return, The’ 802

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Ripostes, criticisms of Hulme and Flint 794 Quakers 279 ‘River-Merchant’sWife:ALetter,The’ 727 ‘Quanne hic se on rode’ 47 Seafarer 21 Quarterly Review 486, 496 Poussin, Nicolas, Landscape with Orion 527 ‘Epicurean system’ 488 Powell, Enoch 828 quatrain poems, Eliot and Pound’s Powers, Mary Farl (artist) 965 use 730 pre-Modernism and late-Victorian poetry 706 Queste del Saint Graal 32 Pre-Raphaelites 582, 650 Quinn, Antionette (editor) 919 preaching tradition, in Piers Plowman 70 precociousness, mark of the second Racine, Jean, influence on Dryden 301 generation of Romantic poets radical poetry 488 late twentieth-century predestination, Milton’s views 256 and the British Poetry Revival 970 preferment, Swift’s views 328 see also Fisher, Allen; Fisher, Roy; Prick of Conscience 44, 46 MacSweeney, Barry; Prynne, J. H.; Prince, F. T., ‘Soldiers Bathing’ 839, 842 Riley, Denise; Sinclair, Iain Prince Regent 489, 492, 493 radio printing, Skelton’s use 115 influence on Stevie Smith 907 Prior, Matthew, use of heroic couplets 379 promotion of poetry 903 Procter, Bryan Waller 560 Radstock, Lord (patron of Clare) 551 Procter (friend of Beddoes) 546 Raine, Craig 731, 988 Proctor, Adelaide 675 works promiscuity, Hardy’s defence 758 Free Translation, A 989 Propertius, influence on Milton 232 ‘Grocer, The’ 989 prophecy, Milton’s pursuit 232 History: The Home Movie 989 prospect poems, Yearsley’s Clifton Hill 374–5 ‘Martian Sends a Postcard Home, A’ prostitution 986, 988 D. G. Rossetti’s views 651 Raine, Kathleen 862 Victorian views of 707 Rainsford, Henry 163 Proust, Marcel, A la Recherche 518 Raleigh, Sir Walter 145, 173 Prynne, J. H. 982, 984 Raleigh, Walter works on Romanticism 423 Kitchen Poems 971 on Wordsworth and nature 429 ‘One Way at Any Time’ 984 Rands, W. B. 592 White Stones, The 971 Rapin, Paul de, influence on Dryden 301 Prynne, William, Histrio-Mastix 239 Rattle Bag, The (Hughes and Heaney) 918 Psalms Rawnsley, W. F., on Tennyson’s concept of influence on Gray 404 poetry 598 poetical treatments 223 Raworth, Tom, influence on Hill 946 Skelton’s acknowledgment of 127 Read, Herbert Smart’s translation 411 influence on New Apocalypse 860, 862 Surrey paraphrases 130–1 Naked Warriors 728 Wyatt paraphrases 131–2, 135 Reading, Peter 992 Pulsiano, Philip 9 works Pumphrey, Martin, on Stevie Smith 905, 906 Perduta Gente 978 Purcell, Henry, Dryden commemorates 299 Ukulele Music 992 Pusey, Edward 677 reading public, William Wordsworth’s views Puttenham, George 458–62 on alexandrine hexameters 334 realism, eighteenth-century attitudes on late fourteenth-century English poetry 43 to 337 literary criticism of Langland 63, 68, 72, 76 Reed, Henry, ‘Lessons of the War’ 866 on Wyatt and Surrey 115 Rees, Joan, on Christina Rossetti’s ‘Prince’s Pym, John 209 Progress’ 674

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Rees-Jones, Deryn 904, 912 Revivalists 970 on Laura Riding 903, 913 Reynard the Fox 97 on Stevie Smith’sinfluence on Plath 909 Reynolds, John Hamilton 524 Reformation, influence on non-Biblical Reynolds, Joshua 564 religious verse 212 Reynolds, Matthew, on political sensitivity in regional poetry, late twentieth-century 988 Victorian poetry 723 regionalism Rhymers’ Club (London) 686, 687, 736 forties poetry 870–2 rhymes Graham’s response to 874 alexandrines 333 see also Fisher, Roy; MacSweeney, Barry Blake’s use 452 regionalist cultural movements, and forties Byron’s Don Juan 519 poetry 862 eighteenth-century attitudes to 333 Reid, Christopher 986, 988 elision, Moore’s use 490 works heroic couplets ‘Baldanders’ 989 eighteenth century 379 ‘Bollockshire’ 990 Hunt’s views 495 For and After 990 Pope and Byron’s use 494 Katerina Brac 990 pentameter couplets 333 ‘Two Dogs on a Pub Roof’ 990 rhyming couplets Reilly, Catherine dialogue across 369 works Marlowe’s use 174 English Poetry of the First World Rhys, Ernest, ‘At the Rhymers’ Club, i. The War 825 Toast’ 686 Scars upon my Heart 825 rhythm religion, Dryden’s views 307 Gerard Manley Hopkins’s use 679 religious allegiance, Dryden’sconcerns Hardy’s use 753, 756–60 with 292 sprung rhythm 19, 41, 682 religious debate, Rochester’s engagement ‘Ricardian poetry’ 43 with 281 Richard II (King of England) 44 religious imagery, Old English poetry 17 Richards, Bernard, on Hardy’s poetry 746 religious liturgical chanting 410 Richards, I. A. 826 religious poetry Richmond, George, Blake’sinfluence on 454 George Herbert 212 Ricks, Christopher 808 perverse religious poetry, Victorian Dryden’sinfluence on 315 period 591 on Dryden’s use of triplets 293 and satire 68 on Eliot 736, 807, 808, 814 republicanism, Milton’s support of 266 riddles, Old English poetry 16–17 Resignation (A and B) 13 riddling, romance traditions 38 Restoration Ridenour, G. M., on Byron’s Don Juan Behn’s reactions 283, 286 519, 523 libertinism, influence on Montagu’s Riding, Laura 742, 845, 897–904, 906 poetry 363 influence on Plath 913 Milton’s response to 255, 257, 258 on Stevie Smith 905 Restoration poetry 281 works Dryden’s standing 315 Collected Poems (1938) 898, 900, 904 retirement verses 360 ‘Come, Words, Away’ 902 retreat poetry 287 ‘Dimensions’ 898 Revelation ‘Disclaimer of the Person’ 902 book of ‘One Self’ 900 Blake’s fondness for 455 ‘Opening of Eyes’ 900 Marian imagery 227 ‘Poems of Final Occasion’ 902 as tragedy 273 ‘Signature, The’ 900 ‘reversed idealism’ 282 ‘With The Face’ 901

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Word Woman, The 897 Roman de la Rose 37 World and Ourselves, The 903 allegory in 69 ‘You Or You’ 902 Deguileville reworks 50 Ridler, Anne, on Thomson’s City 691 Roman d’Eneas 26 Riley, Denise 876, 971, 982 Roman satire 195 influence on Hill 946 romance works Keats’s views 537 Mop Mop Georgette: New and Selected riddling 38 Poems 1986–1993 983 romance mode, in Milton’s Il Penseroso 238 Selected Poems 983 romances 26–8 ‘Wherever you are, be somewhere else’983 alliterative traditions 28, 29, 32 Riley, John 981 see also Cleanness; Patience; Pearl; Sir Gawain Riley, Peter 861, 981 and the Green Knight Rilke, Rainer Maria 851, 859, 996, 1001 ‘Romantic’ Rimbaud, Arthur, influence on Carlson 966 nineteenth-century views 421–2 rime royal, Chaucer’s use 101 S. T. Coleridge’s views 419–21 Riming Poem, The 13 Romantic poetry 418 Robert, Lord Rich 157 contrasted with Victorian poetry 578 Roberts, Lynette 859, 871 influence on Geoffrey Hill 941 Gods with Stainless Ears 871 Milton’sinfluence on 255 Robertson, Robin 998 third generation 543–5, 558 Robinson, Fred C. 18, 24 depression and deflation 545 Robinson, Henry Crabb, on Blake 429 twentieth-century views 428 Robinson, Mary 432, 568–9, 571, 624 women poets 561–2 Charlotte Smith influences 565 see also Barbauld, Anna Laetitia; Beddoes, influenced by Pope and Swift 371 Thomas Lovell; Blake, William; works Byron, George Gordon, Lord; ‘All Alone’ 568 Clare, John; Coleridge, Samuel ‘Haunted Beach, The’ 568 Taylor; Darley, George; Hemans, Lyrical Tales 568 Felicia; Hunt, Leigh; Keats, John; Sappho and Phaon: In a Series of Legitimate Landon, Letitia; Moore, Thomas; Sonnets 569 Shelley, Percy Bysshe; Southey, ‘To Apathy’ 569 Robert; Wordsworth, William Rochester, John Wilmot, second Earl of 281, Romanticism 418 301, 315, 369 Amis’sreflection of 881 compared with Aphra Behn 282 Heman’s and Landon’s works 558 pornography 178 limiting effects on reputations of third rejects Dryden’s attempts to secure generation of Romantic poets 544 patronage 288 nineteenth-century views 424, 425 sexual explicitness 285 Tennyson’s responses to 604–6 works twentieth-century views 423–8 ‘Allusion to Horace, An’ 288 Romaunt of the Rose 104 ‘Curse on his Pintle, A’ 178 Ronsard, Pierre de 155 ‘Disappointment, The’ 285 Rosenberg, Isaac 824, 825, 826, 837–41 ‘Imperfect Enjoyment, The’ 178, 282 influence 862 ‘On his Prick’ 178 on Longley 960 Satire against Reason 361 works Rodgers, W. R. 861 ‘Break of Day in the Trenches’ 741, 838 Roman Catholicism ‘Daughters of War’ 839, 840 Dryden’s attitudes to 306, 309 ‘Dead Man’s Dump’ 839, 840 Dryden’s conversion 293, 295 ‘Game of Chess, A’ 837 Gerard Manley Hopkins’s conversion 677 ‘Immortals, The’ 838 Roman d’Alexandre 333 ‘Louse Hunting’ 838

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Rosenberg, Isaac (cont.) ‘Triad, A’ 673 ‘Marching – as Seen from the Left File’ 837 ‘Wife to Husband’ 673 Moses 837 ‘Winter: My Secret’ 590 ‘Returning, We Hear the Larks’ 741, Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 649, 671, 674, 677, 688 837, 838 aestheticism 650, 698 Rosenmeyer, Patricia, on Anacreon 489 affected by Swinburne’s aestheticism 664 Rosenthal, Joe (photographer) 829 alludes to Milton 655 Rosewicz, Tadeusz 990 edits Blake 454 Ross, Alan S. C. 22 translations of Dante 650 Rossetti, Christina 577, 671–6, 747 works influence on Hopkins 669–71 ‘Ave’ 651 and the natural world 588, 590 ‘Blessed Damozel, The’ 651, 652 translations of Dante 674 Bocca Baciata 653 works ‘Burden of Nineveh, The’ 579, 582 ‘After Death’ 673 Ecce Ancilla Domini! 651 Annus Domini 673 ‘Genius in Beauty’ 654 ‘Apple-Gathering, An’ 673, 675 Girlhood of Mary Virgin, The 651 ‘Better resurrection, A’ 672 House of Life, The 654, 665 ‘Bird’s eye view, A’ 675 ‘Jenny’ 585, 651, 660, 707 ‘Coast, A’ (‘Nightmare’) 675 ‘Kiss, The’ 655 ‘Convent Threshold, The’ 669, 670, ‘My Sister’s Sleep’ 651, 652 673, 674 ‘Nuptial Sleep’ 655, 665 ‘Cousin Kate’ 671, 673, 675 Poems (1870) 664, 670 ‘Death’s Chill Between’ 684 ‘Song of the Bower’ 653 ‘From House to Home’ 673 ‘Songs of the Art-Catholic’ 651 Goblin Market and Other Poems 671, 673 ‘Woodspurge, The’ 589, 653 ‘Heart’s Chill Between’ 684 Rossetti, Frances (mother of Christina ‘Hour and the Ghost, The’ 673 Rossetti) 671 ‘I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto the Rossetti, Maria 674 Hills’ 672 Rossetti, William Michael 651, 664, 665, 684 ‘In the Round Tower at 6 Jhansi, 8 June Rossini, G. 511, 521 1857’ 676 Rota pamphlets 313 ‘Jessie Cameron’ 675 Rothenstein, William (friend of Yeats) 775 ‘Life and Death’ 676 Rouse, John (Librarian of the Bodleian) ‘Light Love’ 675 (1640s) 247 ‘Maude Clare’ 673 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, city-hating polemics 463 ‘May’ 673 Rowe, Elizabeth Singer 362 ‘Mona Innominata’ 674 Rowley, Christopher 399 ‘My Dream’ 673 Rowley Rag 978 ‘My Old Friends’ (‘A Burthen’) 675 Rowley, Thomas see Chatterton, Thomas ‘No, thank you, John’ 673 Royal Oak 289 ‘Noble Sisters’ 673 Royce, Josiah 947 Pageant and Other Poems, A 674 ruach 515 ‘Pause for Thought, A’ 673 Rudrum, Alan, on Vaughan’s ‘To the Most ‘Prince’s Progress, The’ 673 Excellently Accomplished, Mrs ‘Reflections’ (‘Day Dreams’) 675 K. Philips 221 ‘Repining’ 675 Ruin, The, as elegy 12, 13 ‘Rivals’ (‘A Shadow of Dorothea’) 675 ruling passions, Pope’s views 345 ‘Royal Princess, A’ 676 ruralist novelists, Charlotte Mew’saffinity ‘Shut Out’ 673 with 762 ‘Song’ 673 Ruskin, John 618, 706 ‘Songs in a Cornfield’ 675 on Dante 748 ‘Study, A’ (‘A Soul’) 675 Elements of Drawing 676

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Russell, Betrand 519 satire Russell, Thomas (Irish poet) 966 anticurial satire, Dunbar’s treatment 105 Ruthven, K. K., on Laura Riding 898, 900 Byron’s interest in 493–4 Ruthwell Cross 11 Byron’s use in Don Juan 510, 516 Donne’s concern with 199 Sackville, Thomas, use of rhyme royal 140 Dryden’s use 290, 291 sacred history, Dryden’s Absalom and Hunt’s use 494 Achitophel 304 Milton’s use 248 Sagar, Keith Pope’s Dunciad 351 on Amis’s ‘Against Romanticism’ 919 and religious poetry 68 on Hughes’s poetry 923 Samuel Johnson’s use 352 St Clair, William, on critical reactions to Swift’s use 324–6 Byron’s Don Juan 522 Tudor period 122–6 St Erkenwald 29, 30, 86 Savage, Richard 362 St Guthlac (A and B) 24 ‘Unconstant’ 359 St Mary Magdalen Home for Fallen Women, Savoy, Duke of, slaughter of Waldensians 250 Christina Rossetti’s work at 675 Scarron, Paul, Virgile Travesti 320, 349, 357 saints, lives 46 Schopenhauer, Arthur 689, 692, 693 Sales, Roger Schultz, Susan M., on Laura Riding 898 on Clare 545, 554 science, nineteenth-century developments, John Clare 559 impact on poetry 589 Salter, Elizabeth, literary criticism of Langland 67 Scodel, Joshua, on Behn’s eroticism 285 Saltley Viaduct (Birmingham) 978 Scott, J. D., ‘In the Movement’ 879 Salzilli (Roman poet) 246 Scott, Tom 862, 870 Samson, portrayal in Milton’s Samson Scott, Sir Walter 420, 422, 429, 627 Agonistes 272, 273–6 and the ‘Romantic’ 421 Sannazaro, Jacoppo, influence on Milton 243 works Sansom, Martha Fowke 358 Lay of the Last Minstrel, The 584 Santayana, George Marmion 570 on Robert Browning 619 ‘Scottis’, Douglas’s use 109 on Romanticism 423 Scottish poetry Sassoon, Siegfried 741, 824, 825, 826–8, 862 late twentieth-century 998–1002 collaboration with Owen 841 late medieval period 96 works see also Douglas, Gavin; Dunbar, ‘Absolution’ 826, 827 William; Henryson, Robert ‘Base Details’ 828 Scottish Renaissance, twentieth-century 988 ‘“Blighters”’ 828, 833 scribal practices, and dialect 56–8 ‘Fight to a Finish’ 828 Scriblerus Club 326, 339 ‘General, The’ 828 influence on Montagu 362 ‘Glory of Women’ 828 scripture ‘Hero, The’ 827 allegory, Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel 304 Memoirs of an Infantry Officer 828 exegesis, Dryden’s views 309, 312 Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man 835 Higher Criticism of 631 ‘Poet as Hero, The’ 827 Seafarer, The 7, 12, 21, 35 ‘Redeemer, The’ 826 as elegy 12, 13 ‘Repression of War Experience’, as reflection on wisdom and experience 14 influence on Edward Thomas 835 Seaman, Owen 699 Siegfried’s Journey 828 ‘Vigo-Street Eclogue, A’ 699 Satan séances, Yeats’s involvement in 781 in Genesis A 10 second-generation Romantic poetry see in Milton’s Paradise Lost 261, 262, 263, 266 Byron, Lord; Hunt, Leigh; Keats, in Milton’s Paradise Regained 269, 270–2 John; Moore, Thomas; Shelley, Shelley’s ambivalent admiration for 532 Percy Bysshe

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‘Second Italian School’ 500 Hill 951 Second World War Milton 236 effects on poetry 862 Robert Browning 627 soldier poets 866 literary style 65 see also Douglas, Keith; Lewis, Alun; Marlowe’sinfluence on 173 Reed, Henry Milton’s epitaph for 231 ‘secret narrative’ genre 986 as originator of the ‘Romantic’ 421 Sedley, Sir Charles, personalised in Dryden’s Pope praises 419 Essay on Dramatic Poetry 300 possibly reads Piers Plowman 63 ‘Seeing the Brain’ (St Louis newspaper style compared to that of Langland 64–7 article) 808 use of rhymed couplets 32 Seizin Press 897 Voltaire’s rhyming 333 self works Hill’s understanding 942, 946 Antony and Cleopatra, Marlowe’s subject for poetry, sonnet form 155 influence 179 self-articulation, eighteenth-century long As You Like It 173, 174, 180, 219 poems 392 citing Marlowe’s Hero and self-consciousness, Eliot’s views, in The Waste Leander 190 Land 812–15 Comedy of Errors, The 187 self-expression, T. S. Eliot’s attitudes to 807–12 Cymbeline 188 self-perception, Eliot’s views in Four Quartets Hamlet 190 819–22 Henry VI Part 3 522 Seneca 232, 341 King Lear 64, 493 sensationalism 649 Lover’s Complaint, A 165, 189–91 senses, eighteenth-century views 385 Love’s Labour’s Lost 183 sensibility Macbeth 187, 492, 646 literature of 372 Merchant of Venice, The 180 Robinson’s concerns with 569 Midsummer Night’s Dream, A,influence Romantic women poets’ concerns with 562 on Milton 237, 240 Sermon on the Mount 14, 15 ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the Seven Sages of Rome, The 46 sun’ 212 Severin, Laura, on Stevie Smith 907 Othello 187, 730 Sexton, Anne 908, 939 Rape of Lucrece, The 166, 187–9 sexual behaviour, Spenser’s concerns with rhyming system 190 145–7 Richard II, 176 sexuality, Rochester’s representations of 281 Romeo and Juliet 179 Seymour-Smith, Martin 898 Sonnet 144 178 Shadwell, Thomas 308 Sonnet 151 178 Dryden satirises 288, 289 Sonnets 154, 165–9, 172 Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley, first Earl of, debunk tradition 180 personification in Dryden’s Tempest, The 485, 887 Absalom and Achitophel 291, 305 Titus Andronicus 188 Shakespeare, William 1, 455, 482 Twelfth Night 812 Byron’s use in Don Juan 507, 509 Two Gentlemen of Verona, The 154, 156 on charters of freedom 447 on sonnets 160 Coleridge’s views 425 Venus and Adonis 166, 184–7 compared with Jonson 193 Winter’s Tale, The 230 heroic blank verse 128 Shapcott, Jo Hughes’s views 925 works influence on Electroplating the Baby 996 Beddoes 546 ‘Phrase Book’ 996 Blake 442 Tender Taxes 996 Byron 499 ‘Tom and Jerry Visit England’ 996

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Sharp, William 687 Sidney, Mary (wife of Robert Sidney) 207 Shaw, Thomas, Outlines of English Literature 421 Sidney, Sir Philip 194, 204 Sheelagh na Gig (Kilpeck) (Herefordshire) authorial persona 170 932 on English poetry 136 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 351, 422, 428, 430, 530, influence 207 536, 542, 606, 657, 782, 892 sonnets 157–61 comparison with Keats 524–30 Spenser’s views 137 on imagination 427 works influence on Apology for Poetry 78, 155, 160 Barbauld 564 Arcadia, The 158, 159 Beddoes 548 Astrophil and Stella 155, 157–61, 163, 208 Emily Brontë 636, 638 Sonnet 31 895 the Brownings 620 Certain Sonnets 158 influenced by Milton 243 Old Arcadia, The 170 Leavis’s views 426 Yeats’s views 773 origins of Imagism 791 Sidney, Robert (brother of Sir Philip production of The Liberal 487 Sidney) 207 Robert Browning’s views 625 sight, eighteenth-century views 385 and Romanticism 424 Silkin, Jon, on Sassoon’s poetry 837 use by Yeats 736 Sillars, Stuart 877 on Wordsworth 426 Simic, Goran, Harsent’s translations 992 works Simmons, Samuel (publisher of Milton’s Adonais 503, 515, 535, 636 Paradise Lost) 257 Alastor, comparison with Keats’s Simon, Richard, Histoire Critique du Vieux Endymion 525, 526, 527 Testament 307, 309 Cenci, The 532, 535 Simonie, The 46 ‘Cloud, The’ 844 Sinclair, Henry, Lord 108 Defence of Poetry, A 532, 536 Sinclair, Iain 974, 975, 981 ‘England in 1819’ 493 editor of Paladin Poetry series 981 Epipsychidion 638, 758 works ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ 540 Lud Heat 971, 974 Julian and Maddalo 531, 578 Suicide Bridge 974 Masque of Anarchy, The 495 Sinfield, Alan 903 ‘Mont Blarc’ 540 Sir Beves of Hamtoun 46 ‘Ode to the West Wind’ 528, 589, 881 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 40, 977 ‘Ozymandias’ 572, 627, 882 analysis 32–7 Peter Bell the Third 426 authorship and themes 28 Prometheus Unbound 272, 532–5, 848 literary style 63, 76 Keats’sinfluence 527 reflected in Hughes’s poetry 922 Triumph of Life, The 509, 528, 531, 636 vocabulary 56 ‘Two Spirits – An Allegory, The’ 530 Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture 23 ‘Witch of Atlas, The’ 522 Sir Orfeo 28 Sheppard, Robert, Poetry of Saying, The,on Sitter, John, on eighteenth-century Riley 983 poetry 379 Sherston, George 828 Sitwell, Dame Edith 859, 906 Shippey, Tom A. 9, 13 Skeat, Walter, literary criticism of Piers on Beowulf 8 Plowman 65 on riddles in the Exeter Book 16 Skelton, John 115, 123 Shirley, James 231, 289 courtly verse 116 Triumph of Peace, The 252 influence on Spenser 137 Siddall, Elizabeth (wife of D. G. Rossetti) influence on Wyatt and Surrey 125 653, 665 poetry’s role 132 Sidney family, Jonson’s celebration 202 satires 122

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Skelton, John (cont.) works works Fox Running 978 ‘Auncient acquaintance, Th’’ 116 ‘London Poems, The’ 978 Bowge of Court, The 122 Smith, Nigel, on Marvell’s use of Marian Collyn Clout 116, 123 imagery 227 Garlande of Laurell, The 116 Smith, Rebecca A., on Bunting’sinﬂuence on on the role of poetry 126–7 MacSweeney 980 Magnyfycence 122, 123 Smith, Stevie 904–8 Merie Tales Made by Master Skelton 116 inﬂuence on Plath 909 ‘To maystres Margaret Hussey’ 117, 123 works ‘Why Come Ye Nat to Courte?’ 123 ‘Commuted Sentence, The’ 905 Skinner, Cyriack (friend of Milton) 232, 248, 250 ‘Forgive me, forgive me’ 906 slavery Good Time was Had by All, A 904, 905 Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s attitude to Holiday, The 905 591, 631 ‘Is it wise’ 906 Romantic women poets’ concerns with 562 ‘Listener, The’ 907 Smart, Christopher 397 ‘Mrs Arbuthnot’ 905 historical curiosity 399 ‘Not Waving But Drowning’ 905 works Selected Poems 904, 907 Jubilate Agno (‘Rejoice in the Lamb’) 411 ‘Songster, The’ 904 Song to David, A 412 ‘Speakerine de Putney, La’ 905 Smith, Adam 459 Smollett, Tobias 389 on rhyme 334 social culture on use of alexandrines 327 Victorian poetry’s reactions to 590–4 Smith, Ben, literary criticism of Langland 67 Wordsworth’s reactions to 462–3 Smith, Charlotte Turner 565–8, 624 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, comparison with Robinson 569 publish Christina Rossetti’s works work 673 Beachy Head 567, 568 Some Imagist Poets anthologies Elegiac Sonnets 565 798, 803 Sonnet 1 565 Son of God, Milton’s portrayal 256 Sonnet 14, ‘From Petrarch’ 566 sonetto cauduto, Milton’s use 249 Sonnet 30, ‘To the River Arun’ 567 sonetto (short song) 157 Sonnet 31, ‘Written in Farm Wood, Song of Songs 161, 227 South Down, in May 1784’ 567 songs, Elizabethan period 164 Sonnet 42, ‘Composed during a walk Songs and Sonnets see Tottel’s Miscellany on the Downs, in November 1787’ sonnets 567 Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s use 624 Sonnet 44, ‘Written in the church-yard Carlson’s use 965 at Middleton in Sussex’ 566 Elizabethan period 154, 155 Sonnet 66, ‘Written in a tempestuous see also Campion, Thomas; Dowland, John; night, on the coast of Sussex’ 567 Drayton, Michael; Shakespeare, Sonnet 70, ‘On being cautioned William; Sidney, Sir Philip; against walking on a headland Southwell, Robert; Spenser, overlooking the sea, because it Edmund was frequented by a lunatic’ 567 European tradition 165 Sonnet 71, ‘Written at Weymouth in Herbert’s use 212 winter’ 567 Hopkins’s use 680, 683 Sonnet 79 565 Lee-Hamilton’s development 717 Emigrants, The 567, 568 Milton’s use 247–51 Smith, Horace 696 Petrarchan sonnets 156 Smith, James 696 Shakespearean sonnet form 156 Smith, Ken Charlotte Smith’s experiments with 565

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Spenser’s development 161–2 ‘Poetry and Revolution’ 855 Wyatt’s use 119–20 ‘Port Bou’ 854, 855 Sophocles ‘Pylons, The’ 855 works Still Centre, The 854 Antigone 957 ‘Thoughts during an Air-Raid’ 854 Oedipus at Colonus 273, 689 ‘Two Armies’ 854 Oedipus Rex 273, 274 Vienna 854 Sorley, Charles 825 Spenser, Edmund 194, 196, 239 sound, imagination of, second-generation influence on Milton 233, 234, 243, 257 Romantics use 490 poetic output and reputation 136–7 South English Legendary 44, 46 reads Piers Plowman 63 Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of refers to Langland 59 186, 187 sonnets 161–2 Southerne, Thomas, ‘To Mr Congreve’ 291 works Southey, Robert 421, 428, 522 Amoretti, The 136, 156, 161 Byron’s dedication in Don Juan 509 Astrophel 136 on Coleridge’s ‘Ancient Mariner’ 433 Colin Clouts come home againe 136, 149 Coleridge’s criticism of Mary Robinson 568 Complaints 136 critical stature 437 Daphnäda 136 criticisms of Wordsworth 430 Epithalamion, The 136, 148, 151, 161 works Faerie Queene, The 70, 136, 161 Annual Anthology (1799 and 1800) 457 allegory 73, 146 ‘Madoc’,influence on Muldoon 964 influence on William Collins 405 Thalaba 488 influence on Milton’s Comus 240, 241 Wat Tyler 495 moral concerns 145–7 Southwell, Robert 164 stanza form 140 influence 222 symbolism 142 on Herbert 212–15 vocabulary 141 on Hill 940 Fowre Hymns, The 136, 140 tears-poetry genre 228 Mirror for Magistrates, A 136 works Mother Hubberds Tale 136 ‘Burning Babe, The’ 165 Muiopotmos 136 ‘MantothewoundinChristsside’ Prothalamion 136 213, 214 Ruines of Time, The 136 ‘St Peter’s Complaint’ 213 Ruins of Rome, The 136 Spalding, Helen, on Stevie Smith 904 Shepheardes Calender, The 136, 137–40, Spanish Civil War 213, 243 MacNeice’s response to 853 Englishness in Ireland 149 Spender’s response to 854 Pope’s views 335 Spearing, A. C., literary criticism of Langland 67 Teares of the Muses 136 Spectator (periodical) 879, 891 Theatre for Worldlings 161 Spencer, Bernard 859 Three Proper, and wittie, familiar Letters 136 Spencer, Gabriel (Elizabethan actor killed by Two Cantos of Mutabilitie 151 Jonson) 196 imitates Chaucer 140 Spencer, Jane, on Restoration literature 281 Virgils Gnat 136 Spender, Stephen 844, 854–6 Visions of Petrarch, The 136 on Auden’s poetry 844 Visions of the Worlds Vanitie 136 on surrealism 859, 863 Spenserian romaunt 499 on Wilfred Owen as war poet 829 Spenserian stanzas 500–3 works Spiller, Michael 160, 170 ‘Moving through the silent crowd’ 856 sprezzatura 118, 120 ‘My parents kept me from children who Springtime: An Anthology of Young Poets and Writers were rough’ 856 (ed. Fraser and Fletcher) 880

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Index

sprung rhythm 19, 41, 682 ‘swaling’ 496 Staël, Madame de, Corinne,inﬂuence on Swanton, Michael 9 Landon 572 Sweet, Henry, Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Standly, Sir Edward, Milton’s epitaph 252 Verse 22 Stanley, Eric, The Search for Anglo-Saxon Sweetman, David 986 Paganism 10 Swift, Jonathan 281, 318–20, 339, 342, 343, 359, stanzas 369, 516 ‘Monk’s’ stanzas, Dunbar’s use 107 criticism of Dryden 315 Spenserian stanza, use in TheFaerieQueene140 friendship with Ann Finch 360 Statius 232, 697 inﬂuence on Stein, Gertrude, ‘IAm’ 900 Hill 943 Steiner, George, on war poetry 825 women’s poetry 371 Stella (Esther Johnson; friend of Swift) 322–3, 371 mocks Dryden’s Hind and the Panther 310 Sterne, Lawrence, Tristram Shandy 389 prose, compared with Pope 347 Sternhold, Thomas 308 satire 77 Stevens, Wallace 348, 418 self-revelation 320–31 Stevenson, Randall 984, 985 use of heroic couplets 379 Stevenson, Robert Louis 592 works ‘Stilus’ 356 ‘Author upon Himself, The’ 327 storm, metaphor 213 Battle of the Books 319, 321, 330 Stormon, E. J., on Eliot’s perception of time 819 ‘Baucis and Philemon’ 318 Strachey, Lytton, on Shakespeare’s sonnets 166 Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed, A 321, Stuart period see Donne, John; Herbert, 322, 331 George; Jonson, Ben; Milton, Cadenus and Vanessa 320, 322, 324 John; Vaughan, Henry ‘Cassinus and Peter’ 321 ‘Subjectivity’ 423 ‘Description of a City Shower, A’ 326, Suckling, Sir John 231 352, 363 ‘Sumer is icumen in’ 45 ‘Description of the Morning, A’ 326, 363 Surrealism, Spender’s views 859, 863 Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 326 Surrealists 859 Epistle to a Lady, An 320, 324 Surrey, Countess of, Skelton’s poetic address Gulliver’s Travels 325, 336 to 116 Journal to Stella 328 Surrey, Thomas Howard, Earl of 115, 136, 158 Lady’s Dressing Room, The 321 elegies for Wyatt 127, 130 Legion Club, The 319, 325 heroic blank verse 128 ‘Letter to a Young Lady, on her paraphrases of the psalms 130, 132 Marriage’ 322 poetic styles 121 ‘Stella’s Birthday’ 323 poetry’s role 132 ‘Strephon and Chloe’ 321 satires 125 ‘To Mr Gay, on his Being Steward to the sonnets 156 Duke of Queensbury’ 328, 331 translation of Virgil’s Aeneid 110 ‘To Stella, Who Collected and use of Douglas’s Eneados 108 Transcribed his Poems’ 323 works Traulus: The Second Part 325 ‘Good ladies’ 121 Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 319, 325, ‘In winters just returne’ 122 327, 328 ‘London, hast thow’ 125 ‘Verses Wrote in a Lady’s Ivory Table- ‘So crewell prison’ 128 Book’ 318 ‘When ragying love’ 128 Swift, Thomas (Jonathan Swift’s cousin) 319 Survey of Modernist Poetry, A (Graves and Swinburne, Algernon Charles 577, 649, 688 Riding) 742, 897 aestheticism 655–66 Sussex Downs landscape, Charlotte Smith’s on Arnold 640 concerns with 566 on Blake 454 Sutherland, James 443 on Coleridge 424

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favourable views of Robert Browning’s Symbolist Movement in Literature, The 702 Sordello 621 influence on Eliot 729 and Imagism 791 ‘To One in Alienation’ 698 Mallock satirises 596 ‘White Heliotrope’ 699 politics 665–6 Synge, J. M. 773, 781 praises D. G. Rossetti’s Poems (1870) 664 Playboy of the Western World, The 782 works ‘Anactoria’ 661, 663, 665 tail-rhyme romances 27 Atalanta in Calydon 656–8, 662, 665 Taine, H. A., History of English Literature,on ‘Ave atque Vale’ 593, 661 Romanticism 422 ‘By the North Sea’ 666 Tallemant, Paul, Abbé, Voyages de L’isle Chastelard 656, 658 Amour 282 ‘Dolores’ 658, 660, 662 Tambimuttu, M. J. 858 Erechtheus 665 Tasso, Torquato 155 ‘Faustine’ 659 Drummond imitates 208 ‘Hymn to Proserpine’ 660 influence on ‘Lake of Gaube, The’ 666 Dryden 301 ‘Laus Veneris’ 660 Milton 233, 247, 249, 257 ‘Leper, The’ 659 Spenser’s use 147 ‘Nephelidia’ (The Heptalogia), style 577 works ‘On the Cliffs’ 666 Aminta 283 Poems and Ballads 649, 656, 658, 659, 662 Gerusalemme Liberata,influence on heroic Queen Mother, The 656 poetry 258 Queen Yseult 656 Tassoni, Alessandro, Secchia Rapita, La 349 Rosamund 656 Tate, Allen 915 Song of Italy, A 665 Tatham, Frederick, Blake’sinfluence on 454 Songs before Sunrise 665 Taylor, Dennis Songs of Two Nations 665 on Coleridge’sinfluence on Hardy 766 Tristram of Lyonesse 666 on Hardy’s poetry 746, 753 William Blake, A Critical Essay,on Taylor, Georgina, on Laura Riding 903 aestheticism 698 Taylor, John (publisher) 543, 555 Year’s Letters, A (Love’s Cross-Currents) promotes Clare’s works 551 656 Taylor and Hessey (publisher) 551 swyve, Chaucer’s use 94 tears-poetry, influence of 223 Symbolism (Symbolisme) 702 Temple, Sir William (Swift’s patron) 318 Flint’s views 790 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 542, 581, 601, 706, 718 in relation to Imagism 789 on aestheticism 688 Symbolists (Decadents) 689 Christian moralising of Malory’s tales 650 Symons, A. J. A., Anthology of ‘Nineties’ Verse death 676 696 early poems 607 Symons, Arthur 689, 690, 703 Hallam’s critical appreciation 649 rejection of Decadence 805 and Imagism 791 works influence on Hopkins 677 Days and Nights 695, 698 influenced by Milton 243 ‘Decadent Movement in Literature, The’ interest in the hidden and occult 601 698, 701 poems’ form 607 ‘Décor de Théa¯tre’ (London Nights) 701 poetic career 609 London Nights 696, 698 poetic voice 612 ‘Mélinite: Moulin Rouge, La’ 702 publishing success 581 ‘Opium-Smoker, The’ 698 repetition criticised 597 ‘Prologue’ 577 responses to nature 600 Silhouettes 695, 698 responses to the novel 603 ‘Stella Maris’ 698 responses to Romanticism 604–6

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (cont.) ‘Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate verse criticised 597–600 Sensitive Mind’ 607 works ‘Tithonus’ 602, 766 ‘All Things Will Die’ 601 ‘To E. L., on His Travels in Greece’, ‘Ballad of Oriana, The’ 598 mocked by Lear 593 ‘Break, break, break’ 601, 602 ‘To the Duke of Argyll’ 608 ‘Charge of the Light Brigade, The’, ‘To the Queen’, on cultural stylistic form 610 deterioration 688 ‘Conrad! Why call thy life Torquay 599 monotonous?’ 603 ‘Tristram’,influence on Christina ‘Day-Dream, The’ 597, 599, 602 Rossetti 674 Devil and the Lady, The 601, 602 ‘Two Voices, The’ 607 ‘Dreamer, The’ 613 ‘Vastness’ 604 ‘Early Spring’ 600 ‘Verse-Memoranda’ 599 Enoch Arden 581, 603 Tennyson, Hallam ‘Epic, The’ 577, 614 on the form of Tennyson’s poetry 607 ‘Fragments of an Elegy’ 612 on his father’s responses to nature 600 From the Old Red Sandstone 599 terza rima ‘Gardener’s Daughter, The’ 607 Hardy’s use 748 Idylls of the King 596, 656 Surrey’s use 126 In Memoriam 581, 601, 602, 690, Wyatt’s use 125, 131 710, 735 Test Act (1672) 275, 311 guyed by Symons 699 texts, canonicity 3 mocked by Lear 593 theatres, closure, Commonwealth and the natural world 588 period 225 poetic voice compared to Maud Theocritus, influence on Milton 243 612–14 theodicies religious feeling 591 in Milton’s Paradise Lost 267 ‘Lady of Shalott, The’, form 608 Pope’s treatment 343–5 ‘Locksley Hall’ 601 thirties poetry 844 ‘Locksley Hall Sixty Years After’ 601 see also Auden, W. H.; Day Lewis, C.; ‘Mariana’ 593, 605 MacNeice, Louis; Spender, Maud: A Monodrama 602 Stephen garden lyrics mocked by Thomas (child of Earl of Bridgewater), part in Carroll 593 Comus 240 pessimism 690 Thomas, Dylan 858, 860, 862, 871 poetic voice compared to In Memorian Amis’s and Hughes’s attitude to 920 612–14 and the Blitz 864–6 style 598, 610–12 engagement with regionalism 872 ‘Miller’s Daughter, The’ 603 influence 875 Morte d’Arthur 577, 579, 614 on Graham 873 ‘New Year’s Eve’ 611 on Hughes 921 ‘Nothing Will Die’ 601 on poetry 1 ‘O Darling Room’ 593 works ‘Œnone’ 597, 607 ‘Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid ‘Palace of Art, The’ 576, 582 Was a Man Aged One Hundred’ Poems, Chiefly Lyrical 524, 592, 606 864 ‘Poet, The’ 607 ‘Ceremony After a Fire Raid’ 864 ‘Poet’s Song, The’ 607 Deaths and Entrances 859, 862 Princess, The 603, 604, 606 ‘Fern Hill’ 927 ‘St Simeon Stylites’ 607 In Country Heaven 872 ‘Spirit Haunts the Year’s Last Hours, ‘In country sleep’ 872 A’ 600 ‘In the White Giant’s thigh’ 872

1094

Index

‘Into her lying down head’ 864 religious feeling 592 ‘Over Sir John’s hill’ 872 ‘Suggested by Matthew Arnold’s “Stanzas ‘Poem on His Birthday’ 872 from the Grande Chartreuse”’ 689 ‘Rain’ 867 Thorpe, B. L., translation of The Exeter Book 24 ‘Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of Thrush and the Nightingale, The 46 a Child in London, A’ 864, 865 Thucydides 642 ‘There was a saviour’ 864 Tibble, Ann, on Clare’s mental illness 552 Under Milk Wood 859 Tibble, J. W., on Clare’s mental illness 552 Thomas, Edward 726, 824, 825, 826, 832–7, Tibullus, influence on Milton 232 841, 991 Tiller, Terence 859 comparison with Charlotte Mew 764 Tillotson, Kathleen 358 Hardy’sinfluence 740 Times, on the franchise 715 influence on Longley 960 Times Literary Supplement, on Prynne 984 works Todd, Janet, on Behn’s authorship 282 ‘As the team’s head-brass’ 740, 836 Tolkien, J. R. R. ‘Digging [2]’ 834 ‘Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics’ 23 Heart of England, The 836 on Beowulf as elegy 12, 18 ‘Owl, The’ 890 translation of Sir Gawain and the Green ‘Rain’ 741, 833, 890 Knight 40 ‘Roads’ 835 Tolley, F. R., on Forties poetry 860 ‘Strange Meeting’ 834 Tomlinson, Charles ‘Sun used to shine, The’ 835 on Dryden’s translations 295 ‘This is no petty case of right or wrong’ ‘Middlebrow Muse, The’, on the 832, 833, 836 Movement 883 Thomas, Patrick, on Katherine Philips’s on the Movement 883 influence 219 Tonson, Jacob 282, 295 Thomas, R. S., ‘Peasant, The’ 871 topographical poetry 203 Thomason, Catherine (wife of the bookseller Tottel, Richard (printer) 155 George Thomason) 254 Tottel’s Miscellany 115, 134, 155 Thompson, Francis 706 Townshend, Aurelian, Tempe Restored 252 Thomson, James (1700–48) 375 tragedy descriptions of nature 386–9 Henryson’s treatment 100 Milton’sinfluence on 239 Milton’s Samson Agonistes 273, 274, 276 on nature 384, 385, 386–9 Milton’s views the Fall as 256 portrayals of domesticity 364 Tragic Generation 794 works tragicomic structures, adoption, Castle of Indolence 419 Commonwealth period 225 Seasons, The translation, Douglas’s principles 110 composition 391 Tranströmer, Tomas 989 on inevitability of death 392 transubstantiation 523 ‘Spring’ Treece, Henry 858, 860, 861, 862 on imagination 384 Treharne, Elaine 9 on inevitability of death 393 Trevet, Nicholas on nature 389 Latin commentary on Boethius’s on transitions 392 Consolation of Philosophy 97 ‘Summer’ 378, 394 on tragedy in Boethius and Isidore of on inspiration 382 Seville 101 on nature 384, 385 Trevisa, John, translation of Higden’s ‘Winter’ 387 Polychronicon 55 on inevitability of death 393 Trickster (mythical figure, America and on lyric poetry 398 Siberia) 923 Thomson, James (B. V.) (1834–82) 689–91, 693 Trojan War, Chaucer’s treatment 86 City of Dreadful Night, The 689 Trollope, Anthony 627

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Index

Troubles, Irish late fourteenth-century England 44 Heaney’s treatment of 931 pre-fourteenth-century England 44–7 influence on poetry 956, 992 Spenser’s use 137 Longley’s treatment of 961 Vernon manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Muldoon’s treatment of 963 Library, MS Eng. poet.a.1) 57, 58 truth, and poetry, Chaucer’s treatment 93 verse epistles, Donne’s and Jonson’s use 195 Tucker, Herbert, on Tennyson and Keats 604 verse-forms Tuma, Keith 983, 984 aureate verses, Tudor courtly verses 120 twentieth-century, women’s poetry see Plath, Chaucer’s awareness of 49 Sylvia; Riding, Laura; Smith, Stevie heroic blank verse, Surrey’s use 128 Twentieth Century Verse (periodical) 858 see also elegies Tynan, Katherine 687 Vickers, Brian, on authorship of Shakespeare’s Lover’s Complaint 189 understanding, eighteenth-century views 385 Victorian poetry Unwin, Mary 379, 383 contrasted with Romantic poetry 578 Upward, Allen 787 contrasted with Romantic third-generation Utrecht, Peace of 339 poetry 543 late period 686 Vail, Jeffrey market for 580–3 on Byron’s interest in satire 493 reactions to the natural world 586–90 on Moore’s singing 491 reactions to the social world 590–4 Vane, Sir Henry 232 in relationship to Modernism 746 Vanessa (friend of Swift) 322, 324 sense of time 579 variations, figures of 19 style 576–9 Various Art, A (ed. Crozier and Longville) 981 voice 583–6 Vassallo, Peter, on Casti’sinfluence on see also Arnold, Matthew; Brontë, Emily; Byron 510 Clough, Arthur; Dowson, Ernest; Vaudois 254 Hopkins, Gerard Manley; Vaughan, Henry 217–19 Housman, A. E.; Johnson, Lionel; works late Victorian poetry; Rossetti, Olor Iscanus 219, 229 Christina; Rossetti, D. G.; ‘Regeneration’ 218 Swinburne, Algernon; Symons, response to the Civil Wars 224 Arthur; Tennyson, Alfred, Lord; Silex Scintillans 217, 219 Thomson, James ‘To the Most Excellently Accomplished, Victorian society, Swinburne outrages 658 Mrs K. Philips’ 221 Victorian theodicy, Arnold mocks 641 Vaughan, Thomas Victorians, popularity of Old English poetry 7 works Vine, Steve, on Dylan Thomas’s ‘Ceremony’ 865 Lumen de Lumine 218 Virgil 697 Poems 219 Dryden’s translations 295, 299, 301, 314 Vendler, Helen, on Shakespeare’s sonnets 166 influence on Venice, American concept 730 Dryden 300 ventriloquising arts 720 Lanyer 204 Vercelli Book, The 9 Milton 232, 233, 243, 246, 257 contents 11 Pope 337, 340, 349 riddles 17 Spenser 137, 149 Vere, Ann (wife of Sir Thomas Fairfax) 203 works Verlaine, Paul 701 Aeneid 319, 349 works Austin’s criticisms 598 ‘Art Poétique’ 811 Douglas’s translation 108, 110 ‘Langueur’ 697, 705 Dryden’s use in Absalom and vernacular, Chaucer’s use 91 Achitophel 305 vernacular poetry Gavin Douglas’s translation 96

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reflected in Milton’s Paradise Lost 269 Watkins, Vernon 861 Surrey translates 128 ‘Ballad of Mari Lywd, The’ 871 Fourth Eclogue,influence on Milton 234 Watson, Rosamund Marriott 687 Georgics, Swift parodies 326 Watts, Isaac 373 Virgin Mary, imagery 227 Weatherhead, A. Kingsley, on Spender’s ‘Vision of the Cross, The’ see The Dream ‘Pylons’ 855 of the Rood Webb, Mary, Charlotte Mew’saffinity volta 156 with 762 Voltaire Webbe, William, literary criticism of use of rhyme in translation 333 Langland 63, 67, 72 works Webster, Augusta 716 Candide 343 dramatics monologues 707–10 History of Charles XII 353 works Vorticism 729, 787, 803 ‘Castaway, A’ 585, 707, 708, 709 Voyage to the Island of Love, A (Behn and ‘Circe’ 708 Tonson) 282, 286 ‘Coming Home’ 709 ‘Faded’ 577, 585 Wace, Roman de Brut 45 ‘Inventor, An’ 709 wafters 522 ‘Medea in Athens’ 708, 709 Wagner, Richard 440 Mother and Daughter 707 Wain, John 879 Portraits 720 on Larkin’s ‘Church Going’ 892 ‘Tired’ 707, 709 ‘Eighth Type of Ambiguity’ 884 ‘With the Dead’ 709 Waldensians 250, 254 Weil, Simone, Gravity and Grace,influence on Waller, Edmund 231, 333 Hill 944 Walpole, Sir Robert 324 ‘Welles’ MS 134 Swift’s diatribe against 329, 331 Wells, H. G, Time Machine, The 959 Walton, Izaak, views on George Welsh, influence on Hopkins 680 Herbert 211 Welsh poetry, forties poetry 871 Wanderer, The 7, 12, 21, 35 Wesley, Samuel as elegy 12, 13 on alexandrine hexameters 334 treatment of the Beatitudes 14 on Chaucer 333 Wanley, Humfrey 8 Westall, Richard (engraver) 497 war poets 824 Westminster Gazette 826 influence on Longley 960 Westminster School 207 see also Owen, Wilfred; Rosenberg, Isaac; Weston Hall, Leapor’s access to library 369 Sassoon, Siegfried; Thomas, Weston, Jessie, From Ritual and Romance 732 Edward Whalley, George Warren, Robert Penn 915 ‘England/Romantic–Romanticism’ 434 Wars of the Roses 151 on S. T. Coleridge and the ‘Romantic’ 421 Warton brothers, criticism of Pope 495 Wharton, Duke of, Pope’s portrayal 329, 345 Warton, Joseph 397, 406 Whibley, Charles 425 on the ‘Romantic’ 419 Whitaker, Thomas, literary criticism of Piers works Plowman 64 Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature, The 407 White Horseman, The (ed. Treece and ‘Ode to Fancy’ 406 Hendry) 861 Warton, Thomas 397, 413 Whitman, Walt 597, 677 on the ‘Romantic’ 418 Whittingham, Charles (publisher) 581 works Widsith 10 History of English Poetry 399, 419 Wife’s Lament, The 12, 267 on Piers Plowman 63 as elegy 12 ‘Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in as reflection on wisdom and experience Cheshire’ 408 14, 15

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Wilde, Oscar 689, 695, 794 Hanoverian period 362–76 works Stuart period 358–62 Ballad of Reading Gaol, The 702 forties period 859 ‘Ballons, Les’ 583 Romantic period 432, 561–2 ‘Critic as Artist, The’ 698 twentieth century see Plath, Sylvia; Riding, ‘In the Gold Room: A Harmony’ 702 Laura; Smith, Stevie Sphinx, The 696, 702 twentieth-century Ireland 962 ‘Symphony in Yellow’ 702 women’s rights, Barbauld’s concerns with 563 William III (King of England), Behn refuses to Wood, Hugh, ‘Scenes from Comus: Op. 6’ 945 support 286 Woodhouse, Richard (friend of Keats) 431 Williams, Hugo Woolf, Virginia, on Wilfred Owen as works war poet 829 Billy’s Rain 990 Wordsworth, Dorothy 432, 467 ‘Butcher, The’ 990 influence on William Wordsworth 468 Dear Room 991 Wordsworth, John, public acceptance of his ‘Keats’ 990 brother’s poetry 458 ‘Prayer’ 990 Wordsworth, William 371, 422, 428, 488, 522, 927 ‘When I Grow Up’ 990 Beers’s views 422 Williams, Rowan (Archbishop of Bloom’s views 427 Canterbury) 937 Coleridge’s criticism 430 Williams, Talcott, on monogamy 766 on Coleridge’s ‘Nightingale’ 466 Williams, William Carlos 965 compared with Mary Robinson 568 ‘Postlude’ 800 criticises Gray’s ‘poetic diction’ 399 Williamson, Craig 24 influence on Wilson, Edmund, on Symbolism 789 Emily Brontë 636 Wilson, John (composer) 254 Geoffrey Hill 941 Wilson, John (friend of William Wordsworth) on Keats’s Endymion 526 458, 461, 462, 466 on Milton 255 Winchilsea, Ann Finch, Countess of see Finch, and nature 74, 75, 586 Ann, Countess of Winchilsea pastoral poetry 336 Winter of the World, The (Hibberd and poetic aims 431 Onions) 825 on popular critical reaction to his poetry 458 Wiseman, J. S., on Behn’s eroticism 286 praise of Robert Browning 621 Wittgenstein, Ludwig 519 on the reading public 458–62 Wolfe, Humbert, on Romanticism 423 reputation as a ‘Romantic’ 428–30 Wolfson, Susan 428 and Romanticism 424, 433 Wollstonecraft, Mary, Vindication of the Rights Shelley’s views 426 of Woman 563 Charlotte Smith influences 565 Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas 126 on social culture 462–3 Skelton satirises 123 on Spenserian stanzas 500 women works beauty, theme in Hanoverian women’s ‘Brothers, The’ 459 poetry 370–1 ‘Elegiac Stanzas’ 425, 426 friendship, expression of in women’s Excursion, The 481–5 poetry 366 Book iv, account of mythology in 526 monarchs, influence on women’s comparison with The Prelude 472 poetry 362 emotion central to 481 multi-tasking, Collier’s concerns with 372 imagination in 471 political role, Yeats’s views 777 Preface to 471 Swift’s poems about 321–4 ‘Expostulation and Reply’ 464 theme in Hemans’s poetry 570 ‘Idiot Boy, The’ 458, 459, 461 women’s poetry ‘Lines Written above Tintern Abbey’ eighteenth century 460, 464, 477, 480, 485, 502, 525

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Lucy poems 941 Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 207 ‘Mad Mother, The’ 459 ‘When every one to pleasing pastime ‘Michael’ 459, 460, 463, 468, 927 hies’ 207 ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’ 348, Wulf and Eadwacer 7, 12, 845 525, 840, 855, 941 as elegy 12 ‘Old Cumberland Beggar, The’ 458 as frauenlieder 15 Pedlar, The 471 Wyatt, Sir Thomas 115, 158 ‘Peter Bell’ 430 paraphrases of the penitential psalms Poems (1807), pastoral nature 463 131–2, 135 ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads 373, 429, 457, poetry’s role 132 462, 464, 470, 482, 941 satires 124 dismissive account of urban sonnets 156 culture 463 style 118–21, 134 guyed by Byron 509 Surrey elegises 127, 130 Prelude, The 470, 471, 629, 846 use of rhyme royal 140 on Coleridge 424 works comparison with The Excursion 472 ‘Lo what it is to love!’ 118 contrast with Byron’s Don Juan 508 ‘Mine owne John Poyntz’ 124 darkness theme 485 ‘So feeble is the thread’ 121 emotion’s role 481 ‘“Spending hand, A”’ 125 interaction of nature and mind ‘Who list his wealth’ 135 472–6 ‘Who list to hunt’ 119 mind’s growth 478–80 Wycherley, William 272 and the ordinary 433 Wyclif, John 58 reactions to social culture 463 Wycliffite Bible 55 and Spender 855 Wycliffites (Lollards) 58 ‘spots of time’ 476–80 Wyndham, George 425 Prelude, The (1805), as extended verse Wynner and Waster 28 epistle addressed to Coleridge 464 Prospectus to The Excursion 485 Yaddo artists’ colony 911 Prospectus to The Recluse 473 Yale School of Romanticists 427 Recluse, The 471 Yearbook of Langland Studies 67 ‘Resolution and Independence’ 461, 467 Yearsley, Ann 358, 372–6 ‘Ruined Cottage, The’ 77, 471 works ‘She dwelt among th’ untrodden ways’ 463 ‘Addressed to Ignorance’ 373 ‘Simon Lee’ 460 Clifton Hill 373, 374–5 ‘Solitary Reaper, The’ 554 ‘Epistle to Stella, An’ 373 ‘Thorn, The’ 459, 461, 509 Poems on Several Occasions 372, 374 ‘To B. R. Hayden, Esq.’ 429 ‘To Mr **** An Unletter’d Poet, on Two-Part Prelude (1799) 474 Genius Unimproved’ 373 ‘We Are Seven’ 568 Yeats, W. B. 343, 348, 687, 689, 825, 859, 964 see also Lyrical Ballads admiration for Swift 318 Wrenn, C. L. 9 on aesthetics and artistic self-redirection 779 Wright, Thomas, literary criticism of Piers on Blake 454 Plowman 64 concerns with aristocratic culture 772 Written Archives Centre 916 criticism of Owen’s poetry 741 Wroth, Mary 207 on Eliot’s Waste Land 733 works and imagination 427 Countess of Montgomery’s Urania. The 208 influence 956 ‘Like to the Indians, scorched with the on Donald Davie 885 sunne’ 207 on Heaney 932 ‘My pain, still smothered in my grieved on Hill 943 breast’ 208 on Larkin 890

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Yeats, W. B. (cont.) ‘Municipal Gallery Revisited, The’ 778, 781 on McGuckian 966 ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ 778 on MacNeice 851, 852, 853 ‘No Second Troy’ 770 on Muldoon 965 ‘On a Political Prisoner’ 777 on late Victorian poetry 687 On Baile Strand 784 Modernism 736–8 ‘People, The’, on Irish philistinism 772 on patronage of the arts 770–2 ‘Phases of the Moon, The’ 774 poetic identity 767–70, 774–5 ‘Prayer for my Daughter, A’ 772 on poetry 1, 686 ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ 737, 780 and politics 775–9 ‘Second Coming, The’ 779 on rhythm 658 ‘Secret Rose, The’ 703 symbolism 702 ‘September 1913’, on Irish philistinism 772 on Symons’s ‘La Mélinite’ 702 ‘Song of the Happy Shepherd, The’ 768 works ‘Spur, The’ 735 ‘All Soul’s Night’ 781 ‘Statues, The’ 778, 779 ‘Among School Children’ 778, 780, 885, 892 ‘Swift’s Epitaph’ 325 ‘Ancestral Houses’ 885 ‘Thinking of Saints and of Petronius ‘Anima Hominis’ (Mythologies) 774 Arbiter’ 773 ‘Beautiful Lofty Things’ 782 ‘To a Shade’ 781 ‘Byzantium’ 737, 780, 943 ‘To a Wealthy Man’ (Responsibilities), on Cathleen ni Houlihan 784 patronage 771 Celtic Twilight, The 768 ‘To Ireland in the Coming Times’ 769 ‘Choice, The’ 780 Tower, The 456, 737 ‘Circus Animals’ Desertion, The’ 738, ‘Two Statues, The’ 769 778, 779, 783, 943 ‘Under Ben Bulben’ 782 ‘Cold Heaven, The’ 846 ‘Upon a Dying Lady’ 773 ‘Coole Park and Ballylee’ 767 Vision, A 737, 780 Countess Cathleen and Various Legends and Wanderings of Oisin and other Poems, The Lyrics, The 768 768, 783 ‘Crazy Jane’ 738 ‘Wild Swans at Coole, The’ 736, 890 ‘Cuchulain Comforted’ 769 Young, Edward ‘Dialogue of Self and Soul’ 774 descriptions of nature 388 ‘Easter 1916’ 736, 775–7 on Pope’s translation of Homer 398 ‘Ego Dominus Tuus’ 774 works ‘Estrangement’ 770 Night Thoughts 379 ‘Gyres, The’ 778, 851 blank verse 380 ‘High Talk’ 783 on imagination 384 ‘In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con on inevitability of death 392, 394 Markiewicz’ 777, 781 on mental association 389 ‘In Memory of Major Robert Gregory’ on nature 389 773, 781 and self-articulation 392 John Sherman and Dhoya 767 Young, Thomas (Milton’s tutor) 233 ‘Lake Isle of Innisfree, The’ 736 ‘Lapis Lazuli’ 833, 959 Zevon, Warren (rock muscian) 965 ‘Leda and the Swan’ 779 Zook, Melinda, on Behn’s poetry 283 ‘Man and the Echo, The’ 784 Zwicker, Stephen N., on Dryden’s ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’ translations 295 772, 777 on Milton’s Samson Agonistes 268

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