[44] A New Spirit of the Age, II, p. 183.
[45] Hunt wrote two religious books, Christianism and Religion of the Heart. The second, which is an expansion of the first, contains a ritual of daily and weekly service. For the most part it contains reflections on duty and service.
[46] Correspondence, I, p. 130.
[47] Bryan Waller Proctor (Barry Cornwall), An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, p. 197.
[48] Autobiography, I, p. 119-120.
[49] A Morning Walk and View; Sonnet on the Sickness of Eliza.
[50] It had appeared previously in The Reflector, No. 4, article 10. In the separate edition it was expanded and 126 pages of notes were added.
[51] Poetical Works, 1832, preface, p. 48.
[52] Byron, Letters and Journals, III, p. 28, February 9, 1814.
[53] The same volume contained a preface on the origin and history of masques and an Ode for the Spring of 1814. Byron said of the latter that the “expressions were buckram except here and there.” The masque, he thought, contained “not only poetry and thought in the body, but much research and good old reading in your prefatory matter.” Byron, Letters and Journals, III, p. 200, June 1, 1815.