es' daughter_: Proserpine. _God of Torment_: Pluto.

320 321 The leading idea of this beautiful description of a day's
landscape in Italy 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.

321 -- l. 23 Amphitrite was daughter to Ocean.

325 322 l. 21 _Maenad_: a frenzied Nymph, attendant on Dionysos in the
Greek mythology. May we not call this the most vivid, sustained, and
impassioned amongst all Shelley's magical personifications of Nature?

326 -- l. 5 Plants under water sympathize with the seasons of the
land, and hence with the winds which affect them.

327 323 Written soon after the death, by shipwreck, of Wordsworth's
brother John. This poem may be profitably 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.'

328 -- _the Kind_: the human race.

331 327 _the Royal Saint_: Henry VI.

331 328 st. 4 _this_ folk: _its_ has been here plausibly but, perhaps,
unnecessarily, conjectured.--Every one knows the general story of the
Italian Renaissance, of the Revival of Letters.--From Petrarch's day
to our own, that ancient world has renewed its youth: Poets and
artists, students and thinkers, have yielded themselves wholly to its
fascination, and deeply penetrated its spirit. Yet perhaps no one more
truly has vivified, whilst idealizing, the picture of Greek country
life in the fancied Golden Age, than Keats in these lovely (if
somewhat unequally executed) stanzas:--his quick imagination, by a
kind of 'natural magic,' more than supplying the scholarship which his
youth had no opportunity of gaining.

105 134 These stanzas are by Richard Verstegan (--c. 1635), a poet and
antiquarian, published in his rare Odes (1601), under the title _Our
Blessed Ladies Lullaby_, and reprinted by Mr. Orby Shipley in his
beautiful _Carmina Mariana_ (1893). The four stanzas here given form
the opening of a hymn of twenty-four.

INDEX OF WRITERS

WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH

ALEXANDER, William (1580-1640)