Pope, Alexander, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21-2, 23-4, 25, 29, 31-4, 36-7, 40, 42, 45, 46, 48, 50, 54, 59-60, 67, 73, 81, 82-3, 85, 106-9, 111, 115, 130, 134, 135, 136, 139, 140, 183, 184, 185, 189, 193-4, 204 Archaism, 18, 82-3 Compounds, 21, 106-9 Diction, 33, 36-7 “Dunciad,” 18, 134 “Essay on Criticism,” 14, 29 n., 195 Heroic couplet, 29-30, 31-2 “Homer,” 2, 14, 17, 31-2, 40, 48, 184 Language of poetry, 9-10 Latinism, 59-60 Personifications, 134 Satire, 139, 140 Potter, R., 122 Prior, Matthew, 75, 87, 95, 195 “Progress of Error” (W. Cowper’s), 170 “Progress of Poetry” (Thomas Gray’s), 72 “Prolusions” (E. Capell’s), 95-6 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 35 n., 58 n., 66 n. “Rape of the Lock,” 134 “Religio Laici,” 194 “Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,” 19, 96-7 Reynolds, Myra, 28 n., 61 n., 75 n. Ritson, Joseph, 96 n. Robertson, J. L., 6 n., 62 Rogers, Samuel, 125-6 Romanticism, connexion with classicism, 181-2 Rowley poems, 42-4, 97-8, 162-3 “Ruins of Rome” (J. Dyer’s), 109, 142 Ruskin, John, 180 Russell, A. J. B., 164 n. Saintsbury, George, 29-30, 76 n., 106, 130, 131, 194 n. Sampson, John, 47 n., 99 n., 165 n. Savage, Richard, 75, 111, 136 Schmidt’s “Shakespeare Lexicon,” 35 “Schoolmistress, The,” 88-9, 161 Scott, John, 123 Scott, Sir Walter, 100, 192 “Seasons, The” (J. Thomson’s), 37-9, 62-8, 112-6, 142-6, 190, 196, 198 Selincourt, B. de, 35 n., 128 n. Shakespeare, William, 35, 105 n., 129 Shawcross, T. (_see_ “Biographia Literaria”). Shelley, P. B., 126, 178, 203, 204 Shenstone, W., 26, 29, 75, 88-9, 118 n., 161 “Shorter Poems of the Eighteenth Century,” 195 n. Sidney, Sir Philip, 105 n. Skeat, W. W., 43 n., 97, 98 n., 102 n. Smart, Christopher, 169 n. Smith, Gregory, 14 n., 18 n., 56 n. Somerville, William, 110, 142 “Song to David,” 169 n. Spence, Joseph, 12 Spenser, Edmund, 80-1, 105 n., 133, 159-60, 191, 192 Spenserian imitations, 18, 84, 86-94, 160-2, 178, 191, 192 Spingarn, J. E., 5 n., 6 n., 7 n. Sprat, Thomas, 6, 7 Stock diction, The, 25-55, 183-7 “Stones of Venice, The” (J. Ruskin’s), 180 n. “Storie of William Canynge,” 163 “Sugar Cane, The,” 70, 110, 142 Sweet, Henry, 102 n., 103 n. Swift, Jonathan, 139 Symbolism, 13, 164, 179, 180 Symons, Arthur, 47 n. “Syr Martin,” 93, 125, 162 n. “Table Talk” (S. T. Coleridge’s), 156 n. “Table Talk” (W. Cowper’s), 49, 170 Taine, H., 183 “Task, The” (W. Cowper’s), 49, 73-4, 170-1 Theory of diction, 5-24