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328 injured by use of poetic rhythm, 57, 59; the prose of poets, 58,—of various rhapsodists, ib.; the rhythmical prose form, ib.; Arnold's, 294; and see Fiction.

Protagonists of the grand drama, 104.

Provençal Poetry, 168.

Prudhomme, Sully, 131.

Psalms, the Hebrew, 84, 85.

Psychical Quality, 177.

Psychological School, 80.

Public Opinion, ultimate, to be respected, 277.

Purpose, must be earnest, 288, 289.

Puttenham, George, quoted, 198.

, the grace of lyric poets, 178.

Queen Anne's time, 213, 214.

Quintus, 169.

Quotations, miscellaneous, 30, 90, 140, 222, 285, 296.

, 81; Latin traits distinguished from the Greek, 90; Latin quality and Gothic, 264; and see Hebraism, Hellenism, Japanese, etc.

Randall, J. R., 266.

"Randolph of Roanoke," Whittier, 268.

Rape of the Lock, The, Pope, 214, 215.

Raphael, 150; cited, 197.

Raphaelitism, Academic, 157.

Ratiocination. See Analytic Poetry.

Reaction. See Periods, Literary.

Realism, dramatic, 107; lacking in Milton's early poems, 116; and romanticism, 145, 199; and beauty, 150; descriptive details, 190; of the Elizabethan drama, 191; Whitman's, true and false, 196; not a display of facts, ib.; not a servile imitation, 197; Tennyson on, 198; must conform to human perceptions, 198, 199; photography, 199; should be idealized, ib.

"Reapers, The," Theocritus, 179.

Reason, or intellectual method, 284.

Recent Poetry, characteristics of, 288, 289.

Reflective Poetry, a modern type, 76; of Wordsworth, 189; of Nature, Wordsworth and Bryant, 194, 195; Wordsworth's self-contemplation, 203, 204; modern speculation, 207; and see Truth, Didacticism, etc.

Religion, its "conflict with science," 33; piety of the artist's labors, 221,—his conception of Deity, 222; the God of truth also the God of art, joy, song, 222, 223.

Renaissance, 112; tentative revolts and new movements in art, 158-161; the Italian, 160; the "Colonial" revival, 161.

Repose in art and poetry, 273.

Republic, The, Plato's, 21, 22.

Republicanism, its "applied" imagination, 229.

Reserve, professional, cause of, 12-14.

Reserved Power, 272, 273.