Poem 234. _correi_: covert on a hillside; _Cumber_: trouble. Poem 235. Two intermediate stanzas have been here omitted. They are very ingenious, but, of all poetical qualities, ingenuity is least in accordance with pathos. Poem 243. This poem has an exaltation and a glory, joined with an exquisiteness of expression, which place it in the highest rank amongst the many masterpieces of its illustrious Author. Poem 252. _interlunar swoon_: interval of the Moon's invisibility. Poem 256. _Calpe_: Gibraltar; _Lofoden_: the Maelstrom whirlpool off the N.-W. coast of Norway. Poem 257. This lovely poem refers here and there to a ballad by Hamilton on the subject better treated in 127 and 128. Poem 268. _Arcturi_: seemingly used for _northern stars_. _And wild roses_, etc. Our language has no line modulated with more subtle sweetness. A good poet _might_ have written _And roses wild_:--yet this slight change would disenchant the verse of its peculiar beauty. Poem 270. _Ceres' daughter_: Proserpine; _God of Torment_: Pluto. Poem 271. This impassioned address expresses Shelley's most rapt imaginations, and is the direct modern representative of the feeling which led the Greeks to the worship of Nature. Poem 274. The leading idea of this beautiful description of a day's landscape in Italy is expressed with an obscurity not unfrequent with its author. It appears to be,--On the voyage of life are many moments of pleasure, given by the sight of Nature, who has power to heal even the worldliness and the uncharity of man. _Amphitrite_ was daughter to Ocean. _Sun-girt City_: It is difficult not to believe that the correct reading is _Seagirt_. Many of Shelley's poems appear to have been printed in England during his residence abroad: others were printed from his manuscripts after his death. Hence probably the text of no English Poet after 1660 contains so many errors. See the Note on No. 9. Poem 275. _Maenad_: a frenzied Nymph, attendant on Dionysus in the Greek mythology. _The sea-blooms_, etc.: Plants under water sympathise with the seasons of the laud, and hence with the winds which affect them. Poem 276. Written soon after the death, by shipwreck, of Wordsworth's brother John. This Poem should be compared with Shelley's following it. Each is the most complete expression of the innermost spirit of his art given by these great Poets:--of that Idea which, as in the case of the true Painter (to quote the words of Reynolds), "subsists only in the mind: The sight never beheld it, nor has the hand expressed it; it is an idea residing in the breast of the artist, which he is always labouring to impart, and which he dies at last without imparting." Poem 278. Proteus represented the everlasting changes united with ever-recurrent sameness, of the Sea. Poem 279. _the Royal Saint_: Henry VI. INDEX OF WRITERS. WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH. ALEXANDER, William (1580-1640) 22