[57] “Biographia Literaria,” ed. Shawcross (1907), p. 26, Note; cp. also Southey, “Works of Cowper” (1884 edition), Vol. I, p. 313.
[58] “The Progress of Taste,” III, ll. 7-10.
[59] Wordsworth himself of course stigmatized the “hubbub of words” which was often the only result of these eighteenth century attempts to paraphrase passages from the Old and the New Testament “as they exist in our common translation.”—Vide Prefaces, etc., “Poetical Works,” ed. Hutchinson (Oxford, 1916). p. 943.
[60] For a detailed description of the stock diction of English “Classical” poetry, see especially Myra Reynolds, “Nature in English Poetry from Pope to Wordsworth” (Chicago, 1912), to which the foregoing remarks are indebted.
[61] “Essay on Criticism,” I, l. 350 foll.
[62] “Essay on Men and Manners” (Works, 1764), Vol. II.
[63] “History of English Prosody” (1908), Vol. II, p. 449.
[64] Bysshe, “Art of Poetry,” Third Edition (1708), Chap. I, par. 1 (quoted by Saintsbury, “Loci Critici,” 1903, p. 174).
[65] To the Rev. John Newton, December 10, 1785 (Wright, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 404-406).
[66] Vide Pope’s Works, ed. Courthope and Elwin (1889), Vol. V., p. 166.