[83] Cf. “Letters,” to Samuel Rose, December 13, 1787: “Correspondence” arranged by W. Wright (1904), Vol. III, p. 190. To C. Rowley, February 21, 1788, ibid., pp. 231 foll.
[84] E.g. Charles Wesley’s “Wrestling Jacob,” or Watts’s “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.”
[85] Vide Courthope, op. cit., Book V, Ch. XI; and cp. the confident and just claims put forward by John Wesley himself on behalf of the language of the hymns, in his “Preface to the Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists,” 1780.
[86] Cf. Coleridge “Biographia Literaria,” ed. Shawcross, op. cit., p. 11.
[87] Vide especially the dialogue with a Bookseller on the language of poetry.
[88] In both the first and the final forms “Poetical Works,” ed. Hutchinson (Oxford, 1916) Appendix, pp. 592 foll.
[89] For a detailed account see E. Legouis, “La Jeunesse de Wordsworth” (English translation, 1897; Revised edition, 1921).
[90] Vide “Elizabethan Critical Essays,” ed. Smith, Vol. I, Intro., pp. lv foll.
[91] Both the Fletchers also used many other latinized forms found before their time, and which in some cases they probably took direct from Spenser.
[92] E.g. by Courthope, “History of English Poetry” (1910), Vol. III, p. 339, where a list is given (“only a few of the examples”) of Milton’s “coinages” and “creations.” Of this list only some half dozen (according to the N.E.D.) owe their first literary appearance to Milton.