[114] As in the case of Milton, Cowper’s latinized words appear to have been floating about for a considerable period, though in most cases their first poetic use is apparently due to him. [115] Cp. also III, 229, 414; IV, 494. [116] Apparently after he had done some pruning amongst them (_vide_ “Letter” to Joseph Hill, March 29, 1793, Wright, _op. cit._, Vol. IV, p. 390), and compare his footnote to the “Iliad,” VII, 359, where he apologizes for his coinage _purpureal_. [117] For an account of the parallelism between certain of the eighteenth century stock epithets and various words and phrases from the Latin poets, especially Virgil (e.g. “hollow” and “_cavus_”: “liquid fountain” and _liquidi fontes_), see Myra Reynolds, “Nature in English Poetry from Pope to Wordsworth” (Chicago, 1909), pp. 46-49. [118] Cf. Some apt remarks by Raleigh, “Milton,” _op. cit._, pp. 247 and 255. [119] Cp. Saintsbury, “History of Literary Criticism” (1900-1904), Vol. II, p. 479, note 1. [120] Cp. Elton, “Survey of English Literature,” 1830-1880 (1920), Vol. II, p. 17, remarks on Rossetti’s diction. [121] Cp. also Morel, _op. cit._, pp. 423-424. [122] _Vide_ Lounsbury, “Studies in Chaucer” (1892), Vol. III. [123] “Scrannel” is either Milton’s coinage or a borrowing from some dialect (N.E.D.). [124] This of course is used by many later writers, and was perhaps not regarded in Dryden’s time as an archaism. [125] “New English Dictionary.” [126] “Works,” ed. Courthope and Elwin, Vol. X, p. 120. [127] The prevailing ignorance of earlier English is illustrated in that stanza by Pope’s explanation of the expression “mister wight,” which he had taken from Spenser, as “uncouth mortal.” [128] “The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser, in 6 Vols. with a glossary explaining the old and obscure words. Published by Mr. Hughes, London.” [129] _Ibid._, Vol. I, pp. 115-140. [130] As in Prior’s “Susanna and the Two Elders” and “Erle Robert’s Mice” (1712). [131] “Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser,” 1754. [132] “An Answer to the Sompner’s Prologue in Chaucer,” printed anon, in “Lintott’s Miscellany,” entitled “Poems on Several Occasions” (1717), p. 147. [133] “A Tale Devised in the Plesaunt manere of Gentil Maister Jeoffrey Chaucer” (“Poets of Great Britain,” 1794, Vol. VII, p. 674). [134] “Poems on Several Occasions,” by the Rev. Thomas Warton, 1748, p. 30. [135] “Poems on Several Occasions,” London, 1711, pp. 203-223. [136] _Vide_ List given by Phelps, “The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement” (1899), Appendix I, p. 175; and cf. an exhaustive list, including complete glossaries, given in “Das Altertümliche im Wortschatz der Spenser-Nachahmungen des 18 Jahrhunderts,” by Karl Reining (Strassburg, 1912).