[454]. Some readers may like a few out of hundreds of possible references to Life and Corr., which has no Index: i. 85 (Ariosto and Spenser); 122 (Construction); 316-318 (Chapelain, before and after reading); ii. 197 (Greek and Latin taste in poetry); 211, 212 (Modern Ballads); iii. 9 (Archaisms and Neologisms); 140 (the Epistles in Marmion); 145 sq. (Rhyme, &c.); 205 (the purple patch in Kehama); 213, 265 (Advice to E. Elliott); 277 (blank verse); 295 (Spenser); iv. 301, 338 (very interesting, on a prophesied return of “preciousness” and “metaphysical” style in poetry); v. 245 (a never-carried-out plan of continuing Warton); v. 99 (his own method of writing); vi. 93 (To Bowles—reasons for not reviewing poetry).
[455]. The editions of Lamb in parts are now fortunately very numerous, and there are even several of the whole, some of which have been begun since the text was written. It is therefore superfluous to give pages, especially as the individual articles are almost always short. But I generally use the late R. H. Shepherd’s 1 vol. ed. of the Works (London, 1875), and Canon Ainger’s of the Letters (London, 1888).
[456]. Table Talk, pp. 313, 314, ed. cit. inf.
[457]. Winterslow, p. 463, ed. cit. inf.
[458]. Now, alas! become, between pen and press, the late Master.
[459]. Letters, ed. Ainger, i. 162 sq., with the most amusing additional letter in the Appendix, p. 328 sq., on the wrath of Wordsworth and Coleridge.
[460]. Ibid., i. 189, 190.
[461]. P. 207.
[462]. P. 286 sq.
[463]. P. 290.