NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
[1.] For a complete bibliography, see Carlos Sommervogel, Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus (Bruxelles et Paris, 1896), VII, 627-646.
[2.] In the preface to The Ecstasy. An Ode (1720), John Hughes comments on Cowley’s indebtedness, in “The Extasie,” to Casimire.
[3.] Norris’s indebtedness has been pointed out by Hoxie N. Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry (New York, 1939- ), I, 110, n. 21.
[4.] Compare Watts’s “False Greatness,” “’Tis Dangerous to Follow the Multitude,” and “The Kingdom of the Wise Man” to Casimire’s Ode IV, 34; IV, 10; and IV, 3.
[5.] By this term is understood the themes presented in Horace’s second epode on the happy country life.
[6.] Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetica, ed. Walter Scott (Oxford, 1924-36), I, 129.
[7.] No study has as yet been made of Casimire’s influence upon English literature, but I hope shortly to publish the results of my own investigation of this problem.
[8.] Coleridge prefaced his translation of the ode “Ad Lyram” with this remark. See also Biographia Literaria, ed. John Shawcross (Oxford, 1907), II, 209. For further critical estimates, see Sir John Bowring, trans., Specimens of the Polish Poets (London, 1827), and Caecilius Metellus, pseud., “On the Life and Writings of Casimir,” The Classical Journal, XXV (1822), 103-110.