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316 diction, 240-242; of the supernatural, 243, 244; sublimity of the Vague, 244-247; of Shelley, poet of cloudland, 246; effect of magnitude on the, 247; how distinguished from Fancy, 247; "the grand manner," 248; of the Elizabethans, 249; usually deficient between the Elizabethan and Georgian periods, 250; comparison, association, etc., 250; of "elemental" bards, 250-254; divinity of this creative gift, 254-258; as used and excited by emotion, 261; imagined feeling, 273; promised revival of, 296; and see 147, 166.

Imitation, normal in youth, 13; how far the office of art, 17; Vergil's, of the Greek poets, 91; Longfellow's, 91, 92; Schlegel on, 92; the greatest work inimitable, 109; servile, not true realism, 197, 198.

Immaturity, posing of Heine's youthful imitators, 127; and see Training.

Immorality. See Ethics.

"Impassioned," its meaning, 261.

Impersonality. See Objectivity.

Impressionism, of the Nineteenth Century poets, 118; true, 144; how allied to transcendentalism, 149; its value and defects, 150; and see 153.

Individuality, of certain writers, 58; of style, 80; Longfellow's specific tone, 92; Browning's, 108; its loss means death in art, 144; national, how lost, 164; the poet's distinctive voice, 297; and see Subjectivity.

Industry, differentiated from faculty, 46; of men of genius, 278.

In Memoriam, Tennysor's, 55, 212, 225, 270.

Inness, G., painter, 246.

Insight, the poet as a seer, 22-24; preceding demonstration, 37; the source of revelation, 45,—Plato and Wordsworth on, ib.; allied with genius, 46; the celestial, 65; the Miltonic, 116, 117; nature of, 285; as inspiration, 287; and see 147.

Inspiration, as a poetic factor, according to Plato and his successors, 21-24, 46; Zoroaster on, 22; Hebraic, 75; pseudo, 235; belief in direct, 287; the prophetic, 287; and see 147.

Instinct, 284.

Intellectuality, Browning's, 109; Milton's learning, 116; poetry of wisdom and morals, 211-215; and see Thought.

Intelligibility, 236.

Intensity, of emotion, 261; the dramatic, 273.

Interpretation, of nature, see Section VI., passim; Wordsworth, Bryant and the American School, 195; Whitman's and Lanier's, 195, 196; subjective, of Nineteenth Century poets, 202-204; the pathetic fallacy, 204-210; and see Revelation, Insight, etc.