fficulties arising, 291-2;
advantages of vernacular poetry, 293;
future poetry bound to dispense with obvious description and
reflection and to take on greater subtlety of expression, 294-7;
Wordsworth's speculations concerning nineteenth-century poetry, 298-9;
prospect of social poetry, 299-301;
"effusion of natural sensibility" more probable, 302-3;
French experiments, 303-4;
as to disappearance of erotic poetry, 305-6;
dramatic poetry and symbolism, 306-9
_Essay on Criticism_, by Pope, Romanticists' attack upon, 71-4
_Essay on Genius of Pope_, by J. Warton, 80-3

Farquhar, 48
_Fatal Friendship_, by C. Trotter, 47-8
Fawcett, Rev. J., 97
Fenn, Mr., 60
Fletcher, John, songs of, 35
_For Annie_, by E.A. Poe, 112
Ford, songs of, 35
Forster, John, 131-2, 133
France, Anatole, 7

Gaskell, Mrs., 141
Gautier, T., 6, 10
Genoa, Duke of, 133
Georgian poetry, its pre-war characteristics, 261-2
Gibbon, 98
Gibson, W.W., 262
Gilbert, Sir H., 25
Gilpin, 87
Godolphin, Henrietta, 58
Goethe, 161
de Goncourt, E., 252
Gongora, 78
Gordon, General, 15;
Mr. Strachey's portrait of, 329-30
Gore, Mrs., 178
de Gourmont, Remy, his opinion of Sully-Prudhomme, 9, 10
de Gournay, Mlle., 39
Granville, 47
Graves, R., poetry of, 280-1
Gray, 89, 108
Greene, 32
Grenfell, J., poems of, 271-3
Guiana, Raleigh's "gold mine" in, 20

Halifax, Lord, 50
Handel, 80
Harcourt, Mrs., 57
Hardy, Thomas, lyrical poetry of, 233-58;
independence of his career as a poet, 233-4;
unity and consistence of his poetry, 234;
sympathy with Swinburne, 235;
historic development of lyrics, 236;
novel writing interfering with, 237-8;
place of poetry in his literary career, 238;
"Wessex Ballads" and "Poems of Past and Present," 238-40;
"The Dynasts" and "Times' Laughing Stocks," 240-2;
"Satires of Circumstance," 242-3;
"Moments of Vision," 243-4;
technical quality of his poetry, 244;
metrical forms, 245-6;
pessimistic conception of life, 247-8;
compared with Crabbe, 248;
consolation found by, 249-51;
compared with Wordsworth, 251;
human sympathy, 251;
range of subjects, 252-5;
speculations on immortality, 256;
"The Dynasts," 68, 257;
unchangeableness of his art, 257-8;
"Song of the Soldiers," 263
Hawthorne, 107
Hayley, 5
Hazlitt, 301
_Henrietta Temple_, by B. Disraeli, 153, 159
Heywood, songs of, 35
Higgons, Bevil, 43
Hobbes, 98
Hodgson, W.N., 284
Homer, 12
Hooker, 17
Hope,