[356] ~Friedrich Rückert~ (1788-1866) was the author of _Liebesfrühling_ and other poems. [357] ~Heine~. See _Heinrich Heine, Selections_, pp. 112-144. [358] The greatest poems of ~Vicenzo da Filicaja~ (1642-1707) are six odes inspired by the victory of Sobieski. [359] ~Vittorio, Count Alfieri~ (1749-1803), Italian dramatist. His best-known drama is his _Saul_. [360] ~Manzoni~ (1785-1873) was a poet and novelist, author of _I Promessi Sposi_. [361] ~Giacomo, Count Leopardi~ (1798-1837), Italian poet. His writings are characterized by deep-seated melancholy. [362] ~Jean Racine~ (1639-99), tragic dramatist. [363] ~Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux~ (1636-1711), poet and critic. [364] ~André de Chénier~ (1762-94), poet, author of _Jeune Captive_, etc. [365] ~Pierre Jean de Béranger~ (1780-1857), song-writer. [366] ~Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine~ (1790-1869), poet, historian, and statesman. [367] ~Louis Charles Alfred de Musset~ (1810-57), poet, play-writer, and novelist. PAGE 228 [368] From _The Recluse_, l. 754. PAGE 229 [369] _Paradise Lost_, XI, 553-54. PAGE 230 [370] _The Tempest_, IV, i, 156-58. [371] ~criticism of life~. See _The Study of Poetry, Selections_, Note 1, p. 57.[Transcriber's note: This is Footnote 66 in this e-text.] PAGE 231 [372] _Discourses_ of Epictetus, trans. Long, 1903, vol. I, book II, chap. XXIII, p. 248. PAGE 232 [373] ~Théophile Gautier~. A noted French poet, critic, and novelist, and a leader of the French Romantic Movement (1811-72). [374] _The Recluse_, ll. 767-71. [375] _Æneid_, VI, 662. PAGE 233 [376] ~Leslie Stephen~. English biographer and literary critic (1832-1904). He was the first editor of the _Dictionary of National Biography_. Arnold quotes from the essay on _Wordsworth's Ethics_ in _Hours in a Library_ (1874-79), vol. III. [377] _Excursion_, IV, 73-76. PAGE 234 [378] _Ibid._, II, 10-17. [379] _Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood_. PAGE 235 [380] _Excursion_, IX, 293-302. PAGE 236 [381] See p. 232.[Transcriber's note: This approximates to the section following the text reference for Footnote 373 in this e-text.] PAGE 237 [382] ~the "not ourselves."~ Arnold quotes his own definition of God as "the enduring power, not ourselves, which makes for righteousness." See _Literature and Dogma_, chap. I. [383] The opening sentence of a famous criticism of the _Excursion_ published in the _Edinburgh Review_ for November, 1814, no. 47. It was written by ~Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey~ (1773-1850), Scottish judge and literary critic, and first editor of the _Edinburgh Review_. PAGE 238 [384] _Macbeth_, III, ii. [385] _Paradise Lost_, VII, 23-24. [386] _The Recluse_, l. 831. PAGE 239 [387] From Burns's _A Bard's Epitaph_. PAGE 240 [388] The correct title is _The Solitary Reaper_. SWEETNESS AND LIGHT PAGE 242