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Rh Directness. See Style.

Divina Commedia, Dante, 112-115; charged with its author's personality, 113; symbolism of, 114; compared with "Paradise Lost," 115; and see 269, 291.

Dobson, Austin, 94, 158.

Don Juan, Byron, 19, 123.

Donoghue, J., sculptor, 13, 200.

Don Quixote, Cervantes, 239.

"Dora," Tennyson, 193.

Doré, G., painter, 239; quoted, 255.

Doubt. See Faith.

"Dover Beach," Arnold, quoted, 295.

Drake, J. R., 236, 237.

Drama, The. Grand drama the supreme poetic structure, 105-107; analysis of The Tempest, 106; impersonality of the masters, 107; modern and subjective, of Browning, 108-110; Browning's genius and method, 108; the modern stage, 110; adaptation to the stage, ib.; Jonson on the stage, ib.; Swinburne's plays, 132; meretricious plays, 216; the grand drama again, 274; modern plays, society-drama, etc., 274, 275; and see Elizabethan Period, Greek Dramatists, etc.

Dramatic Lyrics, Browning, 109.

Dramatic Poetry, its narrative may well be borrowed, 57, 237; Shakespeare, Browning, Keats, Shelley, 69, 191, 243; text of, 191; Elizabethan dramatists, 75; epical drama of Job, 86; youthful poems of dramatists, 101; Aristotle on Tragedy, 103; why tragedy elevates the soul, 103, 104, 271, 272; Greek recognition of Destiny, 104; dramatists of Christendom, ib.; the dramatic genius, ib.; Shakespeare and impersonality, 104, 105; Faust, 119; Shelley's, 124; truth to nature, 189, 190,—to life, 191; the Attic, 191; Webster's Duchess of Malfi, 249; display of passion's extreme types, 271-273; exaltation of, 271; Browning's types of passion, 272; effect of contrasts, 273.

Dramatic Quality, of Browning's lyrics, etc., 109; evinced of late in prose fiction rather than in poetry, 137, 138; and see The Drama.

Dramatists. See The Drama and the Greek Dramatists.

Dramatists, the Greek, 97-100; ethical motive of, 97; their objectivity, ib.; the Attic stage, 99; grand drama as an imaginative transcript of life, 101-104; impersonal, ib.; follow the impartial law of nature, 102; and see 113.

Drayton, 94; quoted, 245.

Dryden, Aristotelian view of poetry, 18; quoted, 261; and see 162, 172, 250.

Du Bellay, 171.

Dumas, Père, 138.

Duran, C., painter, 9.