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Rh, 268; quoted, 30, 260; and see 136, 203, 225, 235, 289.

Longinus, cited by Dryden, 18.

Long Poem, A, is the designation a misnomer? 178.

Lorna Doone, Blackmore, 137.

"Lost Occasion, The," Whittier, 268.

"Lotos-Eaters, The," Tennyson, 177.

Love as a master-passion, 260.

Lovelace, R., 167, 171.

Lowell, on faith and science, 57; on Addison and Steele, 100; his national sentiment, 129; his truth to nature, 190; his respect for "local" flavor, 200; on our view of nature, quoted, 207; verbal aptness of, 242; Odes, 267; on talent and genius, 278; quoted, 144, 180, 188; and see 4, 27, 136, 162, 195, 203, 213.

Lucile, Lytton, 237.

Lucretius, 75, 91, 212, 217.

"Lucretius," Tennyson, 270.

Lusiad, The, Camoëns, 112, 244.

Lyall, Sir A., quoted, 182.

"Lycidas," Milton, 90, 116; quoted, 102.

Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth and Coleridge, 21.

Lyrical Poetry, not always subjective, 83; the Davidic lyre, 84, 85; early alliance with music, 85; the Greek lyrists, 87, 88; Catullus, et al., 92; Horace and his successors, 93; primitive ballads, etc., 94; songs of the drama, 105; Ariel's songs, 107; characteristics of the pure lyric, 178-180; and see 264, 265, also Songs and Lyrics.

Lytton, Robert, Lord, Lucille, 237.

, on poets as critics, 12

Macpherson, 58.

Mahaffy, J. P., scholar, 88.

Manzoni, 210.

Marlowe, 167, 238, 249.

Marmion, Scott, 131, 135.

Marseillaise, La, De l'Isle, 266.

Martin, Homer, painter, 246.

Martineau, Harriet, quoted, 76.

Mary Stuart, Swinburne, 132.

Masculinity, impersonality the major key of song, 127.

Masque of the Gods, The, Taylor, 254.

Masque, The (Elizabethan), 107.

Masterpieces, appeal to the public and the critical few, 197; the Church Liturgy, 291 et seq.

Masters, the, their influence on youth, 10.

Materialism, 3; Whitman on, 38.

Materials, poetic, not a substitute for imagination, 235.

Maxwell, C., scientist, 35.

Mediocrity of followers in art, 151.

"Meditations of a Hindu Prince," Lyall, 182.

Meleager, 89.

"Melencolia," Dürer, 140 (and see Frontispiece).

Melodramatic quality, Hugo, 119.

Melody, as heard or symbolized, 174; of speech and of music, 179; the "dying fall," 183.

Men and Women, Browning, 109.