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 ANALYTICAL INDEX

, revolts against, and rise of new schools, 148, 150, 151; cause of its despotism, 157; value of its standards, 159; Sir Joshua Reynolds, 161, 162.

Action, of the drama, 105; defended by Arnold, 133; as the poet's theme, 268.

Actor, the, 271.

Adam Bede, Mrs. Cross, 137.

Addison, 101, 250.

"Adonais," Shelley, 90, 124.

Æneid, The, Vergil, 91-93, 212, 286.

Æschylus and the Greek drama, 98,99; and see 46, 169, 240, 251.

Æstheticism, less artistic than emotion, 262.

Æsthetics, Poe on Beauty and Taste, 26; Berkeleian theory of, 148, 149; Véron, in his L'Æsthetique, 152, 157; and see Beauty and Taste.

Affectation of feeling, 262.

"Agincourt," Drayton, 94.

Agnosticism, the sincere, 294.

Alastor, Shelley, 124.

Alcæus, 87.

Alcestis, Euripides, 99.

Alexandrian Library, 168.

Alexandrian Period, the Sicilian style, 89, 90.

Alfieri, 128, 133.

Allegory, of Dante, Spencer, and Bunyan, 114; and see 249.

America, theory of her institutions, 3; American quality should pervade our native poetry and sculpture, 200; now on trial, 229.

American Poetry, Longfellow and his mission, 91; its fidelity to Nature, 195; its "elemental" feeling, 252-254; Whittier and Longfellow, 268; the "elder American poets," 276, 297; and see 225, 242.

American School. See American Poetry.

Amiel, 135; quoted, 196.

Anacreon, 93.

Analytic Poetry, Browning, 108; Browning's method compared with Shakespeare's, etc., 191, 192; and see 80.

Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the, Coleridge, 81, 125.

Anna Karénina, Tolstoi, 137.

Anthology, the Greek, 88, 169, 183; the Latin, 92.

Anthropomorphism, the artists'