[19] Referred to also by Professor de Sélincourt (note ad loc.), though he ascribes it (somewhat sternly) to the ‘vulgarity of Hunt.’

[20] Much of this paragraph is repeated in substance from an article, by the writer, on ‘The Higher Mind of Italy,’ in the Manchester Guardian, 15 March 1920.

[21] Manchester Guardian, 12 September 1918.

[22] Dedication of Il Poema Paradisiaco (1892).

[23] Laus Vitæ, 232 f.

[24] Gargiulo, Gabriele d’Annunzio (1912), to whose account of the poet’s sovrumanità the present essay is much indebted.

[25] Beatitudine.

[26] Il Fanciullo.

[27] Elettra: Città del Silenzio.

[28] Elettra: A uno dei Mille.