[259] The fountain head of all such studies is, of course, the “Biographia Literaria,” for which see especially Shawcross’s edition, 1907, Vol. II, pp. 287-297. Of recent general treatises, Lascelles Abercrombie, “Poetry and Contemporary Speech” (1914); Vernon Lee, “The Handling of Words” (1923); Ogden and Richards, “The Meaning of Meaning”(1923), may be mentioned. [260] Elton, “Survey of English Literature” (1780-1830), Vol. II, pp. 88 foll. [261] Cf. Elton, “The Augustan Ages” (1899), p. 209. [262] “The Legacy of Greece” (Oxford, 1921), p. 11. [263] “Convention and Revolt in Poetry” (London, 1921), p. 13. [264] Just as this book was about to go to press, there appeared “The Theory of Poetry,” by Professor Lascelles Abercrombie, in which a poet and critic of great distinction has embodied his thoughts on his own art. Chaps. III and IV especially should be consulted for a most valuable account and analysis of how the poetical “magic” of words is achieved. [265] “Essays in Criticism,” Second Series (1888): “Wordsworth” (1913 ed.), p. 157. [266] O. Barfield, “Form in Poetry” (“New Statesman” August 7, 1920, pp. 501-2). [267] “Œuvres” (ed. Assézat), I, p. 377 (quoted by Babbitt), _op. cit._, p. 121. [268] Preface to “The Tales” (Poems), ed. A. W. Ward, (Cambridge, 1906), Vol. II, p. 10. INDEX Abercrombie, Lascelles, 197 n., 201 n. Addison, Joseph, 21 “Ælla” (T. Chatterton’s), 163 Akenside, Mark, 16, 27, 69-70, 138-9, 189, 195 Dr. Johnson’s criticism, 16 “Epistle to Curio,” 195 Latinism, 69-70 Personification, 138-9 “Pleasures of the Imagination,” 69 “Alma” (M. Prior’s), 75 “Amyntor and Theodora,” 142 “Anti-Jacobin, The,” 173 n. “Approach of Summer, The,” 179 “Archaism,” 17-21, 80-101 Aristotle, 10-12, 185 Armstrong, John, 69-70, 110 Arnold, Matthew, 2, 41, 181, 198, 201 “Art of Preserving Health,” 69, 110 Babbitt, I., 13 n., 203 n. Bailey, J. C., 169 n. Ballads, 95-7, 196 Barfield, Owen, 202 n. “Bastard, The,” 111 Beattie, James, 19, 93 n., 125 Beers, H. A., 97 n. “Beowulf, The,” 104 n. Binyon, Laurence, 13 n. “Biographia Literaria,” 13 n., 24 n., 48 n., 51 n., 127 n., 156 n., 173 n., 185 n. “Birth of Flattery, The” (G. Crabbe’s), 168 Blair, Robert, 110, 176 n. Blake, William, 28, 46-7, 77, 99, 124, 129, 136-59, 163-7, 179-80, 181, 187 n., 198, 202 Allegory and Vision, remarks on, 165 Artist, as, 136, 159 n. Compounds, 124, 129 Felicity of diction, 46-7, 202 “Imitation of Spenser,” 47, 165 “Letters,” 47 n., 164 n., 187 n. “Muses, To the,” 47 Mysticism, 164 Personifications, 163-7, 179-80 “Piper, The,” 202 “Songs of Experience,” 46, 165 n., 166 “Songs of Innocence,” 46, 165 Stock diction, 46-7 Blount, T., 93 Boswell’s “Life of Johnson,” 16 n. “Botanic Garden” (E. Darwin’s), 12, 51-2, 126, 173-5 Bowles, William Lisle, 48 Boyce, S., 162