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Rh Poetry as the lyrical expression of Emotion, 19, 20, 262; exalted national feeling, 83; intensity of Hebraic emotion, 83-85; Sappho, 87, 88; of Mrs. Browning's sonnets, 128; "Eloisa to Abelard," 214; subdued in modern poetry, 227; as the force and excitant of imaginative expression, 257, 260-276; required by the Miltonic canon, 27, 260, 261; defined, ib.; not love alone, 260; as intense emotion, 261; its use of imagination, ib.; must be genuine and pure, 262; modern understanding of, 262, 263; of Wordsworth, its limits, 263; as Feeling and Sentiment, 264, 265; of women poets, 266; of ardor, joy, grief, etc., 266-268; Whittier's, 268; as art's highest theme, ib.; its human element, 269; Tennyson's, in youth and age, ib.; creation of its objective types, 270-272; exaltation through intense sensations, 271, 272; reserved power of, 273; absolute dramatic, 273, 274; its occasional lulls, 275; excited by great occasions, 276, 288; of the cries of Faith, 292; and see 5, 166, also Emotion, Feeling, and The Romantic School.

Pastoral Verse. See Greek Bucolic Poetry, Nature, Idyllic Poetry, etc.

Pater, W., quoted, 159.

"Pathetic Fallacy," the, Ruskin's phrase and explanation, 204; consideration of, 204-210; whether our feeling concerning nature is an illusion, 205; illustrated by Landor and Wordsworth's treatment of the sea-shell's murmur, 205, 206; Lee-Hamilton's sonnet on, 206; Lowell on, 207; the "illusion" likely to be cherished, 209.

Patrician Verse, "The Rape of the Lock," 214.

Pattison, Mark, on poetical prose and the prose of poets, 58; quoted, 268.

Payne, John, 82.

Pentameron, The, Landor, 125.

Percival, J. C, 190.

Père Goriot, Balzac, 137.

Pericles and Aspasia, Landor, 124, 125.

Periods, Literary and Artistic, how to determine their quality, 226; reactionary, 275; the older American, 276; heroic, culminating, etc., ib.; and see Alexandrian Period, Composite Period, Elizabethan Period, Georgian Period, Queen Anne's Time, Victorian Period, etc.

Persia, Poetry of, 111.

Personality. See Subjectivity.

Pessimism, 291.

Pheidias, 150.

Philip Van Artevelde, Taylor, 104.

Philistinism, British, 123; Heine's revolt against, 126; and see 222, 290.

Philosophical Poetry,—that of wisdom and ethics. See Didacticism, Ethics, and Truth.