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Rh Thoughts on Poetry, Mill, 20.

Three Memorial Poems, Lowell, 267.

"Threnody," Emerson, 267.

Tilden, American sculptor, 200.

"Tintern Abbey," Wordsworth, 205.

Tolstoi, 137.

"To Mary in Heaven," Burns, 265.

"To the Sunset Breeze," Whitman, 253.

Tourgénieff, novelist, 58, 137.

Tradition, the war upon, 290.

Tragedy, Aristotle's definition, 103; ethics of, ib.; why it exalts the soul, 103, 271, 272; its reconciliation of Deity and Destiny, 104; and see The Drama.

Training, poetic, 9-11; cleverness of modern, 59-61; a true vocation indispensable, 60; "The Science of Verse," 61; self-consciousness in youth, 101; Heine's song-motive, 127; of the taste, 166; effects of town and of country in youth, 195; the formative period, 218; juvenile contemporaneousness, 226; a neophyte's errors, 235.

Transcendentalism, from Plato to Emerson, 21-24; the Concord School, 23, 24; indifference to form, beauty, etc., of certain modern idealists, 149.

Transition Periods, 114; the recent one, 294.

Translation, from the Sanscrit, Arabic, etc., 82; English version of the Hebrew Scripture, 85; renderings from the Greek anthology, by Cory, Lang, etc., 89; does not convey the full beauty of a poem, 166; of early French chansons, etc., 171.

Trilogy, Swinburne's, of Mary Stuart, 132.

Tristia, Ovid, 92.

Truth, the essential verities, 4; wisdom and ethics of the grand drama, 97-104; Browning's philosophy, 108; Dante as an ethical teacher, 114; The Faerie Queene, 114; pure, symbolized by beauty, 168; as an element of poetry, 187-223; what is meant by its unity with beauty, 187; the didactic heresy as the gospel of half-truths, 188; a matter of course in good art, 189; incidental, better than premeditated, ib.; side-glimpses of it more effective than details, 190; broad and universal, or minute and analytic, 191, 192; of Browning and Tennyson, in comparison, 192, 193; requires naturalness, 193; force of its direct statement, 193, 194; of Wordsworth and Bryant's broad method, 194; of the American poets of nature, 195, 196; not a display of mere facts, 196; nor a servile imitation, 197; is alive with interpretation. 198; must pay regard, also, to things as they appear to be, 198; of realism and ideality, 199; of fidelity to one's environment, ib.; of "local flavor," 200; of sincerity,