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324 Photographic Method, lessons taught by Muybridge's camera, 198, 199; not to be closely followed, 199; and see Realism.

"Pied Piper, The," Browning, 215.

Pilot, The, Cooper, 137.

Pindar, not strictly subjective, 83, 87; and see 87, 142, 251.

Pippa Passes, Browning, 55.

Plato, and Aristotle, 17; his conception of poetry and the poet, 21-24; "The Republic," 21; a poet-philosopher, 22; his pupils, 22-24; on insight, 45; on inspiration, 46; and modern transcendentalism, 149; and see 20, 57.

Platonism, its drawbacks, 24; and see Plato.

Plautus, 100.

Plot, 174.

Plotinus, 23.

Poe, on the form of words, 15; definition of poetry, 26, 151 et seq.; on music, 65; quoted, 73; his passion, 267; and see 133, 178, 183, 242, 283.

Poet, the, his freedom, 20; Platonic idea of, 21; Plato's banishment of, from The Republic, 21, 22; his two functions, 28 et seq.; how affected by the new learning, 34-36; compared with the savant, 36, 37; his province inalienable, 38; a creator, 44; a revealer, 45; his power of expression, 47; his wisdom, 48; sensitiveness, 49; must be a born rhythmist, 53; as a writer of prose, 57, 58; pseudo-poets, 60; must be articulate, 62; Lessing on, 71; may use all artistic effects, ib.; Emerson, 149; a phenomenalist, 155, 156; sees and restores the beautiful, 157; expresses his true nature and his work, 167; his youthful passion for the beautiful, 168; his rendering of nature, 188 et seq.; cannot depict landscape like the painter, 202; nature's subjective interpreter, 202, 203; the coming poet, 211; Pope 213, 214; Shelley, 218; his final recognition of beauteous verity, 220, 221; his religious point of view, 221-223; an anecdote, 234; Joubert on the true poet, 235; rarely a sensualist, 246; his imaginative realism, 254; his godlike creative gift, 256, 257; his vital spark, 259; Mill on, 261; Poe and Emerson, 267; "of the first order," 268; his line of advance, 269; Stendhal on, 272; how begotten, 276; elder American poets, ib.; must have the "faculty divine," 277; genius of, 277-285; Carlyle on, 278; originality of, 283; his noble discontent, 286; the Vates, 287; his modern distrust, 288 et seq.; his station higher than the critic's, 297; and see Female Poets, Poetry,, etc.

Poetic Principle, The, Poe's lecture, 26.

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