[253] “Sleep and Poetry,” ll. 188-201.
[254] Hutchinson, op. cit., p. 948.
[255] “Poets of Great Britain” (1794), Vol. X, p. 709.
[256] Cf. “Works” (1889), ed. Courthope and Elwin, Vol. V., p. 360-364.
[257] George Saintsbury, “Eighteenth Century Poetry” (“The London Mercury,” December, 1919, pp. 155-163); an article in which a great authority once again tilts an effective lance on behalf of the despised Augustans.
[258] The best of them have been garnered by Mr. Iola A. Williams into a little volume, “By-ways Round Helicon” (London, 1922), where the interested reader may browse with much pleasure and profit, and where he will no doubt find not a little to surprise and delight him. For a still more complete anthology, vide “The Shorter Poems of the Eighteenth Century” (1923) by the same editor. But for the devil’s advocacy see Doughty, “English Lyric in the Age of Reason” (London, 1922)
[259] The fountain head of all such studies is, of course, the “Biographia Literaria,” for which see especially Shawcross’s edition, 1907, Vol. II, pp. 287-297. Of recent general treatises, Lascelles Abercrombie, “Poetry and Contemporary Speech” (1914); Vernon Lee, “The Handling of Words” (1923); Ogden and Richards, “The Meaning of Meaning”(1923), may be mentioned.
[260] Elton, “Survey of English Literature” (1780-1830), Vol. II, pp. 88 foll.
[261] Cf. Elton, “The Augustan Ages” (1899), p. 209.
[262] “The Legacy of Greece” (Oxford, 1921), p. 11.