[17] § 2. Its kinds. a. Divine.
[18] b. Philosophical, which is perhaps too imitative.
[19] Marcus Manilius wrote under Tiberius a metrical treatise on Astronomy, of which five books on the fixed stars remain.
[20] c. Poetry proper.
[21] § 3. Subdivisions of Poetry proper.
[22] Its essence is in the thought, not in apparelling of verse.
[23] Heliodorus was Bishop of Tricca, in Thessaly, and lived in the fourth century. His story of Theagenes and Chariclea, called the “Æthiopica,” was a romantic tale in Greek which was, in Elizabeth’s reign, translated into English.
[24] The Poet’s Work and Parts. § 1. Work: What Poetry does for us.
[25] Their clay lodgings—
“Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.”(Shakespeare, “Merchant of Venice,” act v., sc. 1)