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
JAMES I. of Scotland, his _Kingis Quair_, 172;
its genuineness vindicated, 174-82
JAPP, Dr. Alexander, _Life of De Quincey_, 209
JEBB, Prof., his services to Greek Literature, 258
JOHNSON, Dr., quoted, 152
JONSON, Ben, on Poetry, 280
JOWETT, Prof., quoted, 64
JUSSERAND, M., his _Literary History of
the English People_ reviewed, 193-202
KEATS, John, 127: 298: 347
LANDOR, W. S., 298
LANG, Mr. Andrew, 259
LAUDERDALE, 310
LEAF, Mr. Walter, 259
LEE, Mr. Sidney, his _Life of Shakespeare_ reviewed, 211-8;
on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 229-30
LE GALLIENNE, Mr. Richard, his _Retrospective Reviews_ reviewed, 151-7
LEOPARDI quoted, 20: 300
LESBIA and CATULLUS, 335-50
LESSING, on Philologists, 86;
his _Laocoon_, 41;
his _Hamburgishe Dramaturgie_, 67
LOG-ROLLING, its pernicious effects, 133-44
LONGINUS, the Treatise attributed to, discussed, 276-8;
quoted, 270
LYDGATE, his style and versification, 98;
id., 115;
characteristics of his poetry, 198-9
MACAULAY, Lord, 145: 151
MALLET, David, claim to authorship of _Rule Britannia_ discussed, 321-4
MALORY, Thomas, 201
MANNYNG, his _Handlying of Synne_, 195
MARLOWE, Christopher, 14
MARTIAL, his epigrams, 337
MAX MÜLLER, Prof., 52
MELEAGER, his Anthology, 116-7;
quoted, 243
MENANDER quoted, 262
MIMNERMUS, his love poetry to Nanno, 287
MILTON quoted, 41 (note): 62;
his apology for _Smectymnuus_, quoted, 103;
on poetry, 267;
quoted, 212;
music of his verse, 317
MITFORD, Rev. J., on the corrections in Thomson’s _Seasons_, 330-4
MONTAGUE, Lady Mary Wortley, 125: 306
MOREL, M. Léon, his Monograph on Thomson, 319
MORE, Sir Thomas, his Utopia, 101
MORE, Henry, 274
MORGAN, Sir George Osborne, his _Translation
of Virgil’s Eclogues_ reviewed, 308-17
MORLEY, Mr. John, 63;
quoted, 64
MYERS, Mr. Ernest, 259
MÜLLER, Prof. E., his _Geschichte der Theorie
der Kunst bei den Alten_, 264
OGILVIE, John, 310
OVID, 60: 177: 178: 246
PACUVIUS, his _Dulorestes_ quoted, 244
PALGRAVE, Francis Turner, his _Landscape in Poetry_ reviewed, 236-49;
an appreciation of, 250-4
PATER, Walter, 62: 152: 265: 267
PECOCK, Reginald, his _Repressor_, 128-9
PETRARCH, 287: 296
PERSIUS quoted, 15
PHILLIPS, Mr. Stephen, his poems reviewed, 294-300
PINDAR quoted, 262;
his word pictures, 240
PLATO, his Symposium, 78-9;
quoted, 263;
his theory of poetry, 274: 276
PLUTARCH, his pictures of women, 290
POMFRET, John, his _Choice_, 101
POPE quoted, 84;
on Philologists, 86;
quoted, 139;
his _Satires_ and _Epistles_, 125;
his alleged revision of Thomson’s _Seasons_ discussed, 328-32
PROPERTIUS quoted, 246
PUBLISHERS, honourable character of the leading, 23
QUARTERLY REVIEW, article on _From Shakespeare to Pope_, 40
QUINTILIAN as a critic, 278
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