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W
- Walker, Professor Hugh, [169]
- Walton, Izaak, [114]
- Watson, Sir William, [120]
- Webster, John, [31]
- Whitman, Walt, [33]
- Wordsworth, William, [22–24], [30], [46–49], [52], [62], [78], [111], [112], [119], [125], [138], [166], [196–199], [210], [225], [227], [229].
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The sifting of the minor poetic writers of the eighteenth century is a task to which critical attention is now being very profitably turned. Many readers of poetry no doubt associate Richard Jago and Matthew Green, for example, in their minds as belonging to the same negligible group, whereas Jago was a poor dull fellow in verse and Green a very considerable poet indeed.
[2] That is to say, Chaucer’s language as intelligible to us. Lost in it, no doubt, are associations from earlier speech.
[3] These remarks, it need hardly be added, apply to part of Byron’s work only.
[4] This is not to deny the quality to every poet before Tennyson, obviously. But never before had it been so salient a characteristic of a poetic style, nor has it been since.
[5] Let me repeat that this is for immediate purposes of definition only. Browning’s individual mark is clear enough upon his poetry right through.