247 262 After the capture of Madrid by Napoleon, Sir J. Moore retreated before Soult and Ney to Corunna, and was killed whilst covering the embarkation of his troops. 257 272 The Mermaid was the club-house of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other choice spirits of that age. 258 273 _Maisie_: Mary.--Scott has given us nothing more complete and lovely than this little song, which unites simplicity and dramatic power to a wild-wood music of the rarest quality. No moral is drawn, far less any conscious analysis of feeling attempted:--the pathetic meaning is left to be suggested by the mere presentment of the situation. A narrow criticism has often named this, which maybe called the Homeric manner, superficial, from its apparent simple facility; but first-rate excellence in it is in truth one of the least common triumphs of Poetry.--This style should be compared with what is not less perfect in its way, the searching out of inner feeling, the expression of hidden meanings, the revelation of the heart of Nature and of the Soul within the Soul,--the analytical method, in short,--most completely represented by Wordsworth and by Shelley. 263 277 Wolfe resembled Keats, not only in his early death by consumption and the fluent freshness of his poetical style, but in beauty of character:--brave, tender, energetic, unselfish, modest. Is it fanciful to find some reflex of these qualities in the _Burial_ and _Mary_? Out of the abundance of the _heart_ ... 264 278 _correi_: covert on a hillside. _Cumber_: trouble. 265 250 This book has not a few poems of greater power and more perfect execution than _Agnes_ and the extract which we have ventured to make from the deep-hearted author's _Sad Thoughts_ (No. 224). But none are more emphatically marked by the note of exquisiteness. 266 281 st. 3 _inch_: island. 270 283 From _Poetry for Children_ (1809), by Charles and Mary Lamb. This tender and original little piece seems clearly to reveal the work of that noble-minded and afflicted sister, who was at once the happiness, the misery, and the life-long blessing of her equally noble-minded brother. 278 289 This poem has an exaltation and a glory, joined with an exquisiteness of expression, which place it in the highest rank among the many masterpieces of its illustrious Author. 289 300 _interlunar swoon_: interval of the moon's invisibility. 294 304 _Calpe_: Gibraltar. _Lofoden_: the Maelstrom whirlpool off the N.W. coast of Norway. 295 305 This lovely poem refers here and there to a ballad by Hamilton on the subject better treated in 163 and 164. 307 315 _Arcturi_: seemingly used for _northern stars_. _And wild roses, &c._ Our language has perhaps no line modulated with more subtle sweetness. 308 316 Coleridge describes this poem as the fragment of a dream-vision,--perhaps, an opium-dream?--which composed itself in his mind when fallen asleep after reading a few lines about 'the Khan Kubla' in Purchas' _Pilgrimage_.