Ephemera Critica; Or, Plain Truths About Current LiteratureCollins, John Churton
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Ephemera Critica; Or, Plain Truths About Current Literature
Collins, John Churton
Criticism; English literature -- History and criticism; Literature -- History and criticism
ARISTOPHANES, 242: 260: 280;
his censure of Euripides, 265
ARISTOTLE, 63: 67;
influence on Spenser, 120-1;
style, 122;
his doctrine of the καθαρσις, 264-5;
his Æsthetics, 265-6;
Poetics, 274-6;
his _Rhetoric_, 287
ARMSTRONG, Dr. John, his connection with Thomson, 333
ARNOLD, Matthew, 63;
quoted, 21: 105: 106: 194: 272-3
ATHENÆUS, 293
AUSONIUS, his _Rosæ_, 246
AVITUS, 251
BACON, Lord, his _Sylva Sylvarum_, 114;
his Latin style, 122;
quoted, 182;
on poetry, 279
BARCLAY, his _Argenis_, 129
BARNUM, the late Mr., on Advertisement, 158
BEACONSFIELD, Lord, quoted, 219
BENECKE, Mr. E. F. M., his _Antimachus of Colophon_ and
_Position of Women in Greek Poetry_ reviewed, 255-93
BENTLEY, Richard, 156
BERNAYS, Prof., on the καθαρσις of Aristotle, 265
BOILEAU, 125
BOLINGBROKE, Lord, 119: 321
BOSWELL, James, 134
BOWDEN, Rev. H. Sebastian, his _Religion of Shakespeare_ reviewed, 351-69
BREWER, Rev. Prof., quoted, 361
BROWN, Mr. J. T. T., his _Authorship of
the Kingis Quair_ reviewed, 172-82
BROWNE, Sir Thomas, his _Hydriotaphia_, 102;
quoted, 368
BROWNING, Robert, on the Comparative Study of Ancient and
Modern Classical Literature, 64
BROWNING, Mrs., 297
BURKE, Edmund, 71: 100-1: 125: 126
BURNS, Robert, 145;
Comparison with Catullus, 347
BUTCHER, Prof. S. H., his _Some Aspects of
the Greek Genius_ reviewed, 255-69
BUTLER, Bishop, quoted, 214
BUTLER, Mr. Samuel, on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 222-4
CÆDMON quoted, 95
CAINE, Mr. Hall, 28
CALLIMACHUS, 242
CAMOENS, 350
CAMPBELL, Prof. Lewis, 259
CAREW, Thomas, 305
CATULLUS, his descriptions of Nature, 245: 336-9;
quoted, 285;
characteristics of his genius, 335;
his _Attis_, 339-40;
his pathos, 337-8;
his connection with Lesbia, 342-5;
parallel between Poems to Lesbia and Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 345-6;
his versatility, 346;
comparison with Burns, 347;
Mr. Tremenheere’s version of the Love Poems, 347-9
CAWTHORN, John, 60
CHAUCER, 53: 8: 122-3
CHURCHILL, Charles, quoted, 159
CICERO, influence on English prose, 61;
as a critic of rhetoric, 278-9;
on immortality, 360
CLARENDON, 123
CLASSICS, influence of the Greek and
Roman Classics on English Literature, 58-63;
exclusion of from Schools of Literature
by the English Universities, 45-64;
effects of this illustrated, 76-83
CLAUDIAN quoted, 246
COLVIN, Mr. Sidney, his edition of Stevenson’s Letters reviewed, 165-71
COLERIDGE, S. T., 127: 130: 281
COLERIDGE, the late Lord, on Greek, 255
CORY, William, 253
COUSIN, Victor, his theory of beauty and art, 272
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