Carlyle, 100 Carlyle, Mrs., her opinion of Keats, 9 Catullus, 84 Charles II, 40, 41 Chateaubriand, 74 Chatterton, 87 Cibber, Colley, 44 Classic poetry, Romanticists' revolt against principles of, 70-90 Clough, A.H., 325, 328 Cockburn, Mr., 60, 61 Coleridge, 104, 108, 274 Collier, Jeremy, attack on stage immorality, 47 Collins, 86, 110 Colonisation, England's debt to Walter Raleigh, 24-5 Congreve, Catherine Trotter's relations with, 43, 47, 48, 50; 57, 58 _Coningsby_, by B. Disraeli, 153, 164, 165-6, 169, 170-2, 173 _Contarini Fleming_, by B. Disraeli, 159-61, 162 Corbett, N.M.F., poems of, 275 Cowes in war time, 219-21 Cowley, 82 Cowper, 253 Crabbe, G., Hardy compared with, 248 Cranch, C.P., 105 Cromer, Lord, essay on, 196-216; intellectual and literary activity, 197-8; as a speaker, 198-200; interest in House of Lords Library, 200; classical tastes, 200-203; conversation, attitude to life and letters, 204-8; correspondence and reflections, 208-10; humour, 210-12; verse, 212-15; literary activities, 215-16 Dacier, Mme., 52 _Dacre_, by Countess of Morley, 153, 156 Dante, 225-6 Dartmouth, George, Earl of, 40, 42 D'Aubigné, 78 Daudet, A., 252 Daudet, E., 229-30 Davies, W.H., 262 De Vere, Mrs., 59 Devey, Miss, "Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton," by, 121 Dewsbury, the Brontës' connexion with, 141-2 Dickens, C, 100, 128, 131 Disraeli, B., novels of, address, 153-78; not taken seriously as an author, 153-4; three periods of writing, 154-5; contemporary fiction, 155-6; _Vivian Grey_, 156-9; _The Young Duke_, 157; _Henrietta Temple_, 159; _Contarini Fleming_, 159-60; Byron's influence on, 161; Voltaire's influence on, 162; fascinated by Venice, 163; _Venetia_, 163; Parliamentary experience and literary results, 164; _Coningsby_, 165-6; _Sybil_, 167-8; _Tancred_, 169-72; Prime Minister, 172; _Lothair_, 173-8; 131, 135 Donne, J., 78, 111, 236, 244, 252 Dorset, Charles, Earl of, 43 Dowden, 34 Doyle, Sir A.C., 103 Dryden, 34, 49, 50, 70, 82, 274 Du Bos, Abbé, 90 Durham, Lord, 131 Dyer, 70 Elizabeth, Queen, sympathy between Raleigh and, 18 _Eloisa to Abelard_, by Pope, its appeal to Romanticists, 83-4 Emerson, 107 _Eminent Victorians_, by Lytton Strachey, review of, 318-32 English Poetry, The Future of, 289-309; instances of national lapses in poetic output, 290; necessity of novelty of expression and difficulties arising, 291-2; advantages of vernacular poetry, 293; future poetry bound to dispense with obvious description and reflection and to take on greater subtlety of expression, 294-7; Wordsworth's speculations concerning nineteenth-century poetry, 298-9; prospect of social poetry, 299-301; "effusion of natural sensibility" more probable, 302-3; French experiments, 303-4; as to disappearance of erotic poetry, 305-6; dramatic poetry and symbolism, 306-9 _Essay on Criticism_, by Pope, Romanticists' attack upon, 71-4 _Essay on Genius of Pope_, by J. Warton, 80-3