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Rh Bleak House, Dickens, 137.

"Blessed Damozel, The," Rossetti, 269.

Blot in the 'Scutcheon, A, Browning, 110.

Boccaccio, 57, 101.

Boileau, 18.

Boner, J. H., quoted, 242. Bonnat, L. J. F., artist, 9.

Brahmanism. See Orientalism.

Breadth, a mark of superiority in portraying life and nature, 191.

Bride of Lammermoor, The, Scott, 137.

"Bridge of Sighs, The," Hood, 265.

Bridges, R., 179; song by, quoted, 185.

Bronté, Charlotte, 137.

Bronté, Emily, 137, 273.

Browning, his use of rhyme, 56; the master of analytic and psychological drama, 108-110; individuality of, 108; how his work is subjective, 109; method of, ib.; Swinburne on, ib.; dramatic lyrics and monologues, ib.; compared with Shakespeare, 109, 110; and the stage, 110; his statement of the poet's art, 24; as a critical idealist, 169; as a dramatist, 191, 192; his nature-touches, 192, 193; as a thinker and moralist, 213; his estimate of Shelley, 219; his types of passion, 272; originality of, 277; quoted, 197; and see, 35, 42, 60, 69, 136, 142, 215, 288, 290.

Browning, Mrs., passion and beauty of her self-expression, 128; compared with Sappho, 88; "Aurora Leigh," 237; and see 4, 177, 266.

Bryant, W. C., his broad manner, 194, 195; elemental mood of, 252; quoted, 237; and see 129, 210.

Bucolic verse. See Greek Bucolic Poets, Nature, Idyllic Poets, etc.

Buddhism. See Orientalism.

Buffon, on Genius, 278.

Bull, Lucy C., a child's recognition of Poetry, 124.

Bülow, H. von, musician, 232.

Bunyan, 52, 290.

Burns, his spontaneity, 120; quoted, 265; and see 135, 172, 173, 190, 195, 250, 255.

Burroughs, J., 62.

Burton, R. F., translator, 82.

Butcher, S. H., translator, 82.

Byron, chief of the English Romantic School, 19; view of Poetry, ib.; estimate of Pope, ib.; considered, 120-123; the typical subjective poet, 121; his "Childe Harold," 121; voice of his period, 122, 123; "Don Juan," 123; compared with Shelley, 124; compared with Heine, 125, 126; his unrest as a poet of nature, 203; influenced by Coleridge, 238, 239; imaginative language of, 241; quoted, 206, 244; and see 58, 60, 119, 142, 173, 195, 226, 251, 263, 290.

, A., painter, 9.