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ANALYTICAL INDEX

Culprit Fay, The, Drake, 236, 237.

Culture, its success and limitations in art, 61; and see 277.

Cynicism, 289.


Dante, minor works of, 79; characterized, 112-115; one with his age and poem, 112; intense personality of, 113; Parsons' Lines on a Bust of, 114; compared with Milton, 115, 117, 245; his supernaturalism, 243; human feeling, 269; faith of, 290; quoted, 174; and see 76, 101, 217, 249, 287.

Davenant, Sir W., quoted, 197.

Davies, John, on music, 65.

"Day Dream, The," Tennyson, 68-70.

Decamerone, Il, Boccaccio, 131.

Decoration, 4; and see Technique.

Defence of Poetry, A, Shelley, 25.

Defense of Poesie, The, Sidney, 23.

Definiteness of the artistic imagination, 232, 234.

Definition of Poetry, why evaded, 12-15; is possible, 15-17; and see Poetry.

De Foe, 138.

Delaroche, H. [Paul], painter, 10.

De l'Isle, Rouget, La Marseillaise, 266.

Deluge, The, Sienkiewicz, 137.

De Quincey, 58.

Derby, Lord, 82.

De Rerum Natura, Lucretius, 212, 217.

Descriptive Poetry, word-painting of Spenser, Keats, Tennyson, etc., 67-70; landscape a background to life, 177; not very satisfactory, 202; inferior to painting, ib.; when subjective, 202-204; and see 189, 195, 196, also Poetry and Nature.

Deserted Village, The, Goldsmith, 268.

Detail. See Technique.

Dickens, his prose and verse, 57; quoted, 282; and see, 137, 283.

Diction, of the past, 34; Hugo's, 120; English, 215; the modern vocabulary, 225; imaginative mastery of words, epithets, phrases, 240-242; verbal felicity of Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Byron, etc., 240, 241,—of Emerson, 242; Fancy's epithets, 248; majestic utterance in "Hyperion," etc., 248; and see Language.

Didacticism, of minor transcendentalists, 24; Coleridge's metaphysical decline, 125; the "didactic heresy," why opposed to true poesy, 187, 188, 213; the "higher" and philosophical, 211-213; poetry of wisdom, 211; Ecclesiastes, ib.; the Greek sages, Lucretius, Epicurus, Omar, Tennyson, etc., 212, 213; Pope as a moralist-poet, 213-215; of the commonplace, 219; and see Truth, Ethics, etc.

Dilettanteism, 8, 133.

Dimension, effect of magnitude in art, 247.

Dimitri Rudini, Tourgénieff, 137.