[8] ~Hermann and Dorothea, Childe Harold, Jocelyn, the Excursion~. Long narrative poems by Goethe, Byron, Lamartine, and Wordsworth. PAGE 6 [9] ~Oedipus~. See the _Oedipus Tyrannus_ and _Oedipus Coloneus_ of Sophocles. PAGE 7 [10] ~grand style~. Arnold, while admitting that the term ~grand~ style, which he repeatedly uses, is incapable of exact verbal definition, describes it most adequately in the essay _On Translating Homer_: "I think it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject." See _On the Study of Celtic Literature and on Translating Homer_, ed. 1895, pp. 264-69. [11] ~Orestes, or Merope, or Alcmæon~. The story of ~Orestes~ was dramatized by Æschylus, by Sophocles, and by Euripides. Merope was the subject of a lost tragedy by Euripides and of several modern plays, including one by Matthew Arnold himself. The story of ~Alcmæon~ was the subject of several tragedies which have not been preserved. PAGE 8 [12] ~Polybius~. A Greek historian (c. 204-122 B.C.) PAGE 9 [13]. ~Menander~. See _Contribution of the Celts, Selections_, Note 3, p. 177.[Transcriber's note: this is Footnote 255 in this e-text.] PAGE 12 [14] ~rien à dire~. He says all that he wishes to, but unfortunately he has nothing to say. PAGE 13 [15] Boccaccio's _Decameron_, 4th day, 5th novel. [16] ~Henry Hallam~ (1777-1859). English historian. See his _Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries_, chap. 23, §§ 51, 52. PAGE 14 [17] ~François Pierre Guillaume Guizot~ (1787-1874), historian, orator, and statesman of France. PAGE 16 [18] ~Pittacus~, of Mytilene in Lesbos (c. 650-569 B.C.), was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. His favorite sayings were: "It is hard to be excellent" ([Greek: chalepon esthlon emenai]), and "Know when to act." PAGE 17 [19] ~Barthold Georg Niebuhr~ (1776-1831) was a German statesman and historian. His _Roman History_ (1827-32) is an epoch-making work. For his opinion of his age see his Life and Letters, London, 1852, II, 396. PAGE 18 [20] _Æneid_, XII, 894-95. THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM AT THE PRESENT TIME PAGE 20 [21] Reprinted from _The National Review_, November, 1864, in the _Essays in Criticism_, Macmillan & Co., 1865. [22] In _On Translating Homer_, ed. 1903, pp. 216-17. [23] An essay called _Wordsworth: The Man and the Poet_, published in _The North British Review_ for August, 1864, vol. 41. ~John Campbell Shairp~ (1819-85), Scottish critic and man of letters, was professor of poetry at Oxford from 1877 to 1884. The best of his lectures from this chair were published in 1881 as _Aspects of Poetry_.