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, Critics 43-4, 46-7, 53, 57, 58-9, 216-8, 220-1, 235-6, 281, 293-4, Dacier, André: 32, 42, 45, 46, 57, 59, 62-72, 217, 304, 317, 389, 391. 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, Horace: 21, 22, 28, 33, 42, 55, 57, 59, 60, 61, 73, 81, 85, 88-9, 99, 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. La Motte, Hondart de: 32, 340. Lansdowne, George Granville, Lord: 113 sq., 351. Le Bossu, René: 45, 46, 57, 59, 217, 302, 349, 376. 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. 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, 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, Nature: 10, 22, 25, 33, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 47, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 62, 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. 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, 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. 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. 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. 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. |