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Rh English Poets, Ward's, 249.

Environment, effects of, in youth, 9, 10; truth to, 199-201; of the Antique, 199; a lesson from Lowell, 200; home fields for art, ib.; transient conditions inessential, 201; one defect of Taine's theory. 276.

Epic Poetry, as evolved from folk-songs, 94, 95; the Homeric epos, 95-97; less inclusive than dramatic, 106; Firdusi's Shah Nameh, 111; the Divine Comedy of Dante, 112-115; Milton's Paradise Lost, 115-117; Arnold's epical studies, 133-135; Walter Scott, 135; simplicity of, 194; a growth, 237; and see Objectivity.

Epicureanism, 217.

Epicurus, 212.

Epigram, Latin, 92.

Equanimity, modern, 274.

Esther, The Book of, 175.

Ethics, of Homer, 95; truth of ethical insight, 216-219; the highest wisdom, 216; a prosaic moral repulsive and unethical, 216, 217; affected conviction, 216; why baseness is fatal to art, ib.; all great poetry ethical, 217,—and this whether iconoclastic or constructive, ib.; Shelley and his mission, 218, 246; and see Truth.

Euripides, his modern note, 88; and the Greek drama, 99; and see 137.

Evanescence, the note of, 181-185.

Eve of St. Agnes, The, Keats, 177.

Evolution, 287; and see Science.

Exaltation, national, 83; dramatic, 271.

Excursion, The, Wordsworth, 206.

Execution of the true artist, 235.

Executive Force, guided by the imagination, 228, 229.

Expression, chief function of all the fine arts, 44; as the source of beauty, 152; need of a free vehicle, 214; moved by imagination, 257; its poetic factors, 259; perfected by emotion, 261; should be inevitable, 274.

Ezekiel, quoted, 287.

, undue, 235.

"Faculty Divine, The," so called by Wordsworth, 259; what it includes, 277.

Fairfield, F. G., neurotic theory of genius, 284.

Faith, the scientist's grounded in knowledge only, 33; and science, Lowell on, 37; Judaic anthropomorphism, 83; its indispensability, 280-296; recent lack of, ib.; distrust and cynicism, 289; works for distinction, 289-291; its poetic masterpiece, the Church Liturgy, 291-294; unrest of Arnold and Clough, 294, 295; the new day, 295.

Fame, Palgrave on popular judgment, 136; the case of Burns, 265; of Byron, ib.

Fancy, "The Culprit Fay," 236; the realm of, 247, 248; and see 215, 254.