id and Bernardo de Carpio; or if we compare the deep tragedy of Edom
O'Gordon with that of the Conde Alarcos; or, what would be better than
either, if we should sit down to the 'Romancero General,' with its
poetical confusion of Moorish splendours and Christian loyalty, just when
we have come fresh from Percy's 'Reliques' or Scott's 'Minstrelsy'."
("History of Spanish Literature," George Ticknor, vol. i., p. 141, third
American ed., 1866). The "Romancero General" was the great collection of
some thousand ballads and lyrics published in 1602-14.

[9] "The Ancient Ballads of Spain." R. Ford, in Edinburgh Review, No.
146.

[10] "A History of Spanish Literature." By James Fitz-Maurice Kelly, New
York, 1898, pp. 366-67.

[11] _Ibid._, pp. 368-73.

[12] Kelly, p. 270.

[13] The collection of Sanchez (1779) is described as an imitation of the
"Reliques" (Edinburgh Review, No. 146).

[14] He preferred, however, Sir Edmund Head's rendering of the ballad
"Lady Alda's Dream" to Lockhart's version.

[15] Scott and Motherwell never met in person.

[16] Mr. Churton Collins thinks that the lines in "Guinevere"--

"Down in the cellars merry bloated things
Shouldered the spigot, straddling on the butts
While the wine ran"--

was suggested by Croker's description of the Cluricaune. ("Illustrations
of Tennyson" (1891), p. 152.)

[17] "The Fairies." William Allingham.

[18] See vol. i., p. 314. Dr. Joyce was for some years a resident of
Boston, where his "Ballads of Irish Chivalry" were published in 1872.
His "Deirdre" received high praise from J. R. Lowell. Tennyson's "Voyage
of Maeldune" (1880) probably had its source in Dr. P. W. Joyce's "Old
Celtic Romances" (1879) (Collins' "Illustrations of Tennyson," p. 163).
Swinburne pronounced Ferguson's "Welshmen of Tirawley" one of the best of
modern ballads.

[19] For a survey of this department of romantic literature the reader is
referred to "A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue." Edited
by Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston (New York, 1900). There are a
quite astonishing beauty and force in many of the pieces in this
collection, though some of the editors' claims seem excessive; as,
_e.g._, that Mr. Yeats is "the first of living writers in the English
language."

[20] Robert Stephen Hawker was vicar of Morwenstow, near "wild Tintagil
by the Cornish Sea," where Tennyson visited him in 1848. Hawker himself
made contributions to Arthuria