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310 Dürer, A., artist, his "Melencolia" as the Muse of Christendom, 140, 141.

"Dying Christian, The," Pope, 214.

"," Emerson, 220, 221.

Earthly Paradise, The, Morris, 131.

Eccentricity, 109.

Ecclesiastes, 211.

Edda, The, 131.

Edison, T., inventor, 32.

Education, the higher and ideal, 4.

Egoism, the Parnassian, 80; and see 140, also Subjectivity.

Elaboration, undue, 193.

Elegiac Poetry, Grecian epitaphs, the anthologies, etc., 88, 89; the Greek idyllists, 89, 90; English elegies, 90; Ovid, 92; Latin feeling, 92, 93; Emerson's "Threnody," 267.

"Elemental" Quality, 250-254; Wordsworth's, 251; of the Hebrews, Greeks, and modern English, ib.; the American, 252, et seq.; Bryant's, 252; Stoddard's and Whitman's, 252, 253; of some other poets, 253, 254.

"Eliot, George" (Mrs. Lewes-Cross), 137.

Elizabethan Period, songs from the dramatists, 170; poets of, their truth of life and character, 191; its imagination, 249; and see 75, 100, 105, 227; also The Drama and Dramatic Poetry.

Elliott, Ebenezer, quoted, 126.

"Eloisa to Abelard," Pope, 214.

Eloquence, sometimes injurious to poetry, 59.

Emerson, on inspiration and insight, 23, 24; anecdotes of, 130, 153; his words and phrases, 242; on beauty and joy, 267; his "Threnody," ib.; on beauty, 149, 150; quoted, 130, 220, 221, 296; and see 35, 39, 50, 58, 75, 134, 136, 203, 213, 290.

Emotion, Wordsworth on, 20; Watts on, 26; the poet must be impassioned, 49; instinctively forms expression, ib.; its suggestion by music, 66; present call for, in art, 211; "uttered," 262, 263; and see Passion.

Empedocles, 212.

Empiricism, its service to the modern poet, 32.

Encyclopedia Britannica, article on Poetry, Watts, 26.

Endurance, the test of art, 166 et seq.; natural selection, 166, 167; of classic masterpieces, 168; of certain English poems, 170-172; "Ars Victrix," 173; transient aspects to be avoided, 201; of Shakespeare, 230, 231.

Endymion, Keats, quotation from its Preface, 122.

English Language, King James's Version of the Bible, 85; and see Diction.

English Poetry, and the imagination, 249, 250.