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Cicero: 64, 219, 237, 314, 383.

Classics as standards: 4.

Collier, Jeremy: 259, 262.

Comedy, Origin of: 65, 272-5; purpose of, 122.

Congreve, William: 3, 17, 262, 274, 308, 350.

Corneille, Pierre: 41-2, 51.

Correctness: 80.

Cowley, Abraham: 3-13, 15, 35, 38, 87, 131-2, 176, 204, 205, 245,
381.

Critics 43-4, 46-7, 53, 57, 58-9, 216-8, 220-1, 235-6, 281, 293-4,
302-5, 316-9, 356, 376.

Dacier, André: 32, 42, 45, 46, 57, 59, 62-72, 217, 304, 317, 389, 391.
Dacier, Madame: 32, 337.

Demosthenes: 384.

Denham, Sir John: 234.

Descartes, René: 378, 381.

Diction, The use of antiquated: 81, 233, 344-5,

Dionysius of Halicarnassus: 46, 217, 221, 334.

Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of: 243.

Dryden, John: 9, 15, 17, 81, 87, 96, 131, 173, 233, 236-8, 247-8, 307,

308, 309-10, 348, 360, 379, 386.

Dunois, Madam: see Aulnoy, Countess d'.

D'Urfey, Thomas: 38.

English Language: 86, 237-8, 358-62. See also Diction.

Ennius: 17.

Environment, The influence of on literature: 4, 16-17, 35-6, 106-8,

264, 275-6, 338, 400.

Epic, The: 64, 152, 294. See also Heroic Poem.

Etherege, Sir George: 132.

Euripides: 15, 34, 35, 51, 66, 67, 96, 219, 220, 252, 271, 272.

Fairfax, Edward: 164.

Fénelon: 349.

Fletcher, John: 277.

Fontenelle, Bernard de: 29, 385.

Free-Thinker, The: 394.

French critics: 44-6, 47-8, 294, 302, 390-1. See also sub individ-

uals.

French literature: 50-51.

Garth, Dr. Samuel: 350.

Genius: 311-5; indispensable to great poetry, 52, 56, 82, 133-4,

172, 262, 318, 369, 388, 391.

Giraldus, Lilius: 58, 59.

Gothic 53, 106, 107.

Greek Drama: 26-7, 34.

Grimaldi, Nicolino: 30.

Grubstreet: 10.

Guardian, The: 34, 61, 104,

Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of: 243, 351.

Hardy, Alexander: 51.

Harrington, James: 14 (?), 217.

Hebrew poetry: 64, 103, 173-5, 199-202, 206-10, 312, 343-4.

Hédelin, François: 261.

Heinsius, Daniel: 261.

Hermogenes: 154, 155-6, 177, 180.

Herodotus: 328.

Heroic Poem: 64, 65. See also Epic.

Hippocrates: 4, 68, 265.

Hobbes, Thomas: 347, 348, 378.

Homer: 15, 16, 17, 25-6, 46, 92-3, 94, 95, 101, 108-9, 155, 158,
181-4, 191-3, 198-201, 204, 205, 225, 232, 234, 253, 266, 269-70,
296, 302, 312, 323-52, 394.

Horace: 21, 22, 28, 33, 42, 55, 57, 59, 60, 61, 73, 81, 85, 88-9, 99,
129, 136-7, 142, 177, 196, 203, 217,, 225, 226, 232, 233, 235, 250-2,
261, 291, 302, 313, 317, 359, 364, 374, 375, 387, 388-90, 391.
Humor: 118-20, 122.

Imitation, Poetry as an: 73.

Imitation of the Ancients: 295-6, 377-8.

Invention: 54, 89, 105, 323-36.

Je ne sais quoi, The: 40.

Jonson, Ben: 124, 252, 276, 277.
Juvenal: 196, 359.

La Motte, Hondart de: 32, 340.

Lansdowne, George Granville, Lord: 113 sq., 351.

Le Bossu, René: 45, 46, 57, 59, 217, 302, 349, 376.
Le Clerc, Jean: 11, 85.

Lee, Nathaniel: 307, 309-10.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger: 83, 84.

Locke, John: 10, 378.

Longinus 59, 154, 156, 181-91, 199, 201, 217, 218, 235, 317, 331.

Low characters in comedy: 117-8, 120-1.

Lucan: 52, 85, 325, 359.

Lucian: 53.

Lucretius: 37, 219.

Lully, G. B.: 32.
Lycophron: 218, 219.
Lycurgus: 25.

Macrobius: 327.

Martial: 258, 266.

Menander: 51, 273, 277.

Metrodorus Lampsacenus: 101.

Milbourne, Luke: 247.

Milton, John: 37, 61, 81, 87, 88, 93, 94, 95, 144, 157-62, 165-71,
172-6, 179, 203, 204, 205, 209-10, 219-20, 233, 234, 314, 325,

344, 349, 359.

Molière, J. P. de: 123.

Montaigne, Michel de: 128.

Motte, Houdart de la: see La Motte.

Mulgrave, John Sheffield, 3d Earl of: 36, 55, 114, 119-20, 121,
217, 222, 230, 239, 243, 350-1, 371.

Nature: 10, 22, 25, 33, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 47, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 62,
67, 73, 222, 226, 250-1, 295.

Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of: 355 sq.

Newton, Sir Isaac: 20.

Nonnus: 218, 219.

Ogilby, John: 347, 348.

Opera, Italian: 30-4, 53, 73, 140, 212, 215, 228, 241-2, 333.

Otway, Thomas: 38, 225, 242, 307.

Ovid: 5, 6, 9, 35, 259, 394.

Painting, Comparison of Poetry with: 52-3, 61-2, 88-9, 124, 372-3.

Parnell, Thomas: 350.

Pascal, Blaise: 176-7.

Perrault, Charles: 14, 218-9, 340.

Persian poetry: 103.

Petrarch: 5, 12-3.

Philips, Ambrose: 386-7.
Piccolomini, Alessandro: 42.

Pindar: 15, 219, 313.

Pisistratus: 25.

Plato: 58, 90, 218, 314, 359, 384.

Plautus: 51, 277.

Pliny: 217, 319.

Plutarch: 88, 90, 359.

Poetical Justice: 306-8.

Poetry: Definition of, 146-7; early development of, 63-4; purpose

of, 16, 145, 147.

Pope, Alexander: 360.

Port-Royal: 21.

Powell, George: 309.

Propertius: 5.

Prose style: 79-85, 384-7.

Purcell, Henry: 31, 33, 34.

Quarles, Francis: 38.

Quintilian: 217, 218, 237, 317, 394.

Racine, Jean: 51.

Rapin, René: 14, 15, 32, 42, 261, 302, 304.

Ravenscroft, Edward: 38.

Rich, John: 261, 279.

Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of: 243.

Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of: 45, 55, 216, 217,

222, 232, 236, 375-6.

Rossi, Luigi: 32.

Rowe, Nicholas : 308, 350.

Rules, The 16-7, 18-75, 98-9, 106, 145-6, 222-3, 230-2, 253, 260-72,
276-7, 303-4, 318-9, 364-76, 387; popular opposition to, 23,
27, 34, 41, 47-8, 54, 55, 262-4, 277, 281, 303-4, 314.

Rymer, Thomas: 3, 14, 316.

Saint-Evremond, Charles de: 16, 32, 127.

Scaliger, J. C.: 45, 259, 260, 340, 376, 389.

Seneca: 85, 218, 220, 391.

Settle, Elkanah: 38, 386.
Shadwell, Thomas: 262.

Shakespeare, William: 24, 27, 36, 54, 71, 108, 113-7, 124-6, 220,

225, 236, 276, 284, 290-1, 307, 308, 313, 316, 319, 325.

Sidney, Sir Philip: 27.

Silius Italicus: 52, 218, 219, 327.

Smith, Edmund: 308.

Sophocles: 15, 34, 35, 66, 67, 219, 220, 252.

South, Dr. Robert: 319.

Southerne, Thomas: 307.

Spectator, The: 33, 34, 44, 47, 59, 61, 95, 104.

Spenser, Edmund: 81, 86-110, 184, 204, 236, 237.
Sprat, Thomas (Bishop): 80, 83, 84.

Statius: 52, 219, 325, 327, 329-30.

Steele, Sir Richard: 350. See also Tatler, &c.

Sternhold, Thomas: 215.

Stesichorus: 394.

Strabo: 195.

Swift, Jonathan: 350.

Tasso, Torquato: 94, 102, 107, 163-5, 170-1, 178-80, 205, 327.

Taste: 20, 29, 32, 37, 45, 53, 132-3, 366-9.

Tatler, The: 34, 43-4, 46-7, 54, 55, 59, 103, 104.

Temple, Sir William: 47-52, 55, 79, 80, 83, 84, 98, 102, 387, 391.
Terence: 51, 84, 85, 219, 252, 313, 319.

Theocritus: 17.

Thucydides: 384.

Tibullus: 12, 219.

Tillotson, John (Archbishop): 80-1, 84-5, 267.

Tonson, Jacob: 215.

Tragedy: 65, 66, 67, 68-9, 71-2, 149-50, 152, 290, 306-10; origin

of, 26-7, 64, 72.

Translation: 341-9.

Valerius Flaccus: 219.

Valerius Maximus: 368-9.

Vaughan, John, 3d Earl of Carbery: 243.

Vega, Lopez de: 41.

Verbal criticism: 45, 53, 58.

Vida, G.: 59.

Virgil: 15, 17, 51, 91-2, 94, 95-6, 158, 168, 178, 191-3, 204, 219-20,

222-4, 231, 234, 253, 266, 295, 296, 302, 308, 312, 313, 314, 323,

325, 326-31, 334-6, 339-40, 346, 349, 359.

Vossius, Gerrard or Isaac: 45, 58-9, 89, 259, 261, 376.

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