[173] _Vide_ Leon Morel, _op. cit._, Ch. IV, pp. 412 foll., for a detailed examination of Thomson’s compound formations. [174] It would appear that this epithet had particularly caught the fancy of Collins. He uses it also in the “Ode on the Manners,” this time figuratively, when he writes of “_dim-discovered_ tracts of mind.” [175] “Works,” _op. cit._, Vol. IV, p. 203. In point of fact, there is little or no evidence in favour of it. Even the Spenserian imitations that flourished exceedingly at this time have little interest in this respect. Shenstone has very few instances of compounds, but the poems of William Thompson furnish a few examples: “_honey-trickling_ streams” (“Sickness,” Bk. I), “_Lily-mantled_ meads” (_ibid._), etc. Gilbert West’s Spenserian poems have no instances of any special merit; but a verse of his Pindar shows that he was not without a gift for happy composition: “The _billow-beaten_ side of the _foam-besilvered_ main.” [176] “Letters,” Vol. III, p. 97. [177] Hill, _op. cit._, Vol. III, p. 437. [178] _Ibid._, p. 434. [179] _Vide_ Edmund Gosse, “Two Pioneers of Romanticism” (Warton Lecture), 1915. [180] It is a coincidence to find that the N.E.D. assigns the first use of the compound _furze-clad_ to Wordsworth. [181] Bell’s “Fugitive Poets” (London, 1789), Vol. VI. [182] Anderson’s “British Poets,” Vol. XI. [183] Bell, _op. cit._ [184] Anderson, _op. cit._ [185] “British Poets,” Vol. X. [186] _Ibid._, Vol. XI, Pt. I. [187] _Ibid._, Pt. II. [188] “British Poets,” Vol. XI, Pt. II. [189] _Vide_ Legouis, _op. cit._ (English translation, 1897), pp. 133 foll. [190] Shawcross, _op. cit._, Vol. I, p. 2, Note. [191] See, e.g., de Selincourt’s remarks on Keats’ compound epithets; “Poems” (1904), Appendix C, p. 581. [192] “Biog. Lit.,” _op. cit._, and cp. “Poetical Works,” ed. Dykes Campbell, Appendix K, p. 540. [193] “History of English Prosody” (1908), Vol. II, p. 449. [194] “History of English Prosody,” _op. cit._, Vol. II, p. 480; and cp. _ibid._, p. 496. [195] Prefaces, “Poetical Works,” ed. Hutchinson (Oxford, 1916), p. 936. [196] _Vide_ Courthope, “History of English Poetry” (1910), Vol. I, Chap. IX, for an account of mediaeval allegory and personification. [197] E.g. “Palamon,” II, 480, 564, 565; Æneas XII, 505-506. [198] “Black Melancholy” (ll. 163-168) and “Hope” (l. 278), the former of which especially pleased Joseph Warton (“Essay on Pope”: Works, Vol. I, p. 314). [199] Elton, “The Augustan Ages” (1895), p. 209. [200] Cf. “Suicide” (Canto II, 194-250). [201] Cf. also Bk. I, ll. 10, 11; 548, etc. [202] Especially in Book III of “The Duellist,” where the reader is baffled and wearied by the unending array of bloodless abstractions.