Byron, 76, 104, 108, 148, 161-2
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'Aubigne, 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 Brontes' 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, Abbe, 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 di
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