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334 Talent, as distinguished from genius, 279; value of, ib.

"Talking Oak, The," Tennyson, 215.

"Tarn o' Shanter," Burns, 268.

Tasso, 79, 112.

Taste, renounced by Wordsworth, 20; Poe's view of its preëminence, 26; as wrongly forsworn by certain poets, 47; Schlegel on, ib.; often falsely assumed, 48; "the artistic ethics of the soul," 49; discordant, how produced, 158; inborn, though cultivable, 161; and fashion, ib.; limitations of Anglo-Saxon, ib.; the maxim De gustibus, 166; not always allied with creative faculty, 280; an exquisite possession, 280, 281; and see 283.

Taylor, Bayard, imaginative poems of, 254; and see 129, 195.

Taylor, Sir H., Philip van Artevelde, 104; dramas of, 132.

Taylor, Jeremy, 59.

Technique, poetic forms, measures, etc., 77; Hebraic alliteration, parallelism, etc., 85; blank verse, 105; modern mastery of, 130, 225; "French Forms," 158; over-elaboration and over-decoration, 177.

Temperament, Hugo's, 119; Lander's, Alfieri's, etc., 125, 133; the artistic is androgynous, 127; modern view of the poetic, 141; the Greek, 142; governs a poet's product, 133; Arnold's in conflict with his theory, 133-135; should be respected, 135, 136; the English, as respects taste, 161; of Pope, 214.

Tempest, The, Shakespeare, analysis of its components, 106, 107.

Tennyson, his "Day-Dream" quoted, 68-70; as poet-painter, 68, 70; early poems of, 168; as a technicist, 177; his dramas, 191; as a poet of nature, 193; as an idyllist, ib.; on Truth, 198; In Memoriam, the representative Victorian poem, 212; sententiousness of, 213, 215; The Princess, 237; vocabulary of, 242; anecdote of, 255; his gain in passion, 269; quoted, 35, 102, 167, 187, 208, 264, 291; and see 10, 130, 131, 136, 142, 172, 179, 200, 225, 235, 266, 268.

Terence, 100.

Thackeray, cited, 103; and see 58, 137, 215, 283.

"Thalysia," Theocritus, 90.

"Thanatopsis," Bryant, 252.

Theatre. See The Drama and Dramatic Poetry.

Theme, not always the essential factor, 236.

Theocritus, Vergil's imitations of, 91; quoted, 179; and see 90, 193.

Theognis, 212.

Thomson, James [1834-82], 133.

Thomson, The Seasons, 189.

Thoreau, 193.

Thought, poetry as the voice of the conscious intellect, 48; must not disregard beauty, 48, 49; exact, inexpressible by music, 66; and see 147.