The Praise of Shakespeare: An English Anthology

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INDEX

• Addison, Joseph. Cato, [18], [23].
  • Compared with Shakespeare, [18].
  • His contemporary fame, [22].
  • Lines to. By William Somervile, and by John Hughes, [23].
  • The Spectator (No. 45), [278];
  • (No. 592), [84].
  • Voltaire’s opinion of, [18].
• Akenside, Mark. An Inscription, [105].
  • The Remonstrance of Shakespeare, [284].
• Among My Books. By James Russell Lowell, [174], [266].
• Appreciations, with an Essay on Style. By Walter Pater, [193].
• Argalus and Parthenia. By Francis Quarles. Possible allusion to Shakespeare in, [5 n.]
• Armstrong, John. Of the Versification of English Tragedy, [100].
  • Of the Dramatic Unities, [100].
• Arnold, Matthew. Essays in Criticism, [195].
  • Heine’s Grave, [265].
  • His Sonnet on Shakespeare, [29], [169].
  • His edition of Wordsworth’s Poems, [195].
• Art of English Poetry. By Edward Bysshe, [26 n.]
• At the Mermaid. By Robert Browning, [31].
• Autumn Vision, An. By A. C. Swinburne, [201].
• B., A. Covent Garden Drollery, [69].
• Bab Ballads. By W. S. Gilbert, [318].
• Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, [145].
  • Compared with Shakespeare, [168], [316].
  • His supposed authorship of Shakespeare’s Works, [v], [326].
• Bancroft, Thomas. To Shakespeare, from Two Bookes of Epigrammes and Epitaphs, [57].
• Barnfield, Richard. A Remembrance of some English Poets, from Poems in Divers Humors, [36].
• Basse, William. On Mr. William Shakespeare, [40].
• Battaile of Agincourt, The. By Michael Drayton, [48].
• Baynes, Thomas Spencer. Article on “Shakespeare” in Encyclopædia Britannica, [207].
• Beaumont, Francis, [40], [42], [80].
• Beddoes, T. L. Lines written in Switzerland, [258].
• Betterton, Thomas, seen by Samuel Pepys as Macbeth, [63].
• Bickerstaff, Isaac. Queen Mab, [299].
• Biographia Literaria. By S. T. Coleridge, [130], [232].
• Blackmore, Sir Richard. His Creation, Johnson’s criticism of, [21].
• Blind, Mathilde. Shakespeare, from Shakespeare Sonnets, [213].
• Blount, Edward, [326-8].
• Blue-stocking Revels. By Leigh Hunt, [247].
• Boileau and Pope, [292].
• Boston, Shakespeare Jubilee at, 1824. Prize Ode by Charles Sprague, [142].
• Boswell, James, the elder. Life of Dr. Johnson, [94], [107].
• Boswell, James, the younger. His edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [20].
• Bowle, John. Miscellaneous Pieces of Ancient English Poetry, [26 n.]
• Bowles, William Lisle. Monody on the Death of Dr. Warton, [228].
  • On Shakespeare, from Sonnets, with other Poems, [124].
• Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery, [148].
• Braybrooke, Lord. Samuel Pepys’ Diary and Correspondence, [62].
• Brooke, Stopford A. Life and Letters of Frederick William Robertson, [164].
• Browne, Felicia Dorothea, afterwards Mrs. Hemans. England and Spain, [229].
  • Shakespeare, [128].
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. A Vision of Poets, [252].
• Browning, Robert. At the Mermaid, [31].
  • Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, [255].
  • The Names, [204].
• Burlington, Lord, [225].
• Butler, Samuel. The Court Burlesqu’d. Possible allusion to Shakespeare in, [5].
• Byron, Lord. Letter to Murray, [239].
• Bysshe, Edward. Art of English Poetry, [26 n.]
• Caius Marius, a Tragedy. Otway’s Prologue to, [72].
• Canons of Criticism. By Thomas Edwards, [281], [303], [304 n.]
• Capell, Edward. His edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [20], [107], [303], [304 n.]
  • Johnson’s criticism of, [304 n.]
• Caractacus. By William Mason, [101].
• Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism, [249].
  • Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, [242], [249].
  • Essay on Corn Law Rhymes in Edinburgh Review, [158].
  • Goethe, [242].
  • The Hero as Poet, from On Heroes and Hero Worship, [157].
  • Shooting Niagara: and After? [264].
• Catalogue of Printed Books collected by Frederick Locker-Lampson, [198].
• Characteristics of English Poets. By William Minto, [189].
• Charge to the Poets, A. By William Whitehead, [109].
• Charles I. His influence on literature, [12].
  • His knowledge of Shakespeare, [7].
• Charles II. His influence on literature, [12].
• Chartism. By Thomas Carlyle, [249].
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, [40], [42].
• Christmas at the Mermaid. By Theodore Watts-Dunton, [325].
• Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. By Robert Browning, [255].
• Churchill, Charles. The Rosciad, [108].
• Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare. By W. S. Landor, [30].
• Coleridge, Hartley. To Shakespeare, [148].
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [ix].
  • His achievement as an æsthetic critic, [28].
  • Biographia Literaria, [130], [232].
  • His general dislike of “Selections,” [131].
  • His influence on the poetry of the nineteenth century, [27].
  • Letters, [246].
  • Literary Remains, [28], [131].
  • His notes on The Tempest, [132 n.]
  • Outline of an Introductory Lecture on Shakespeare, [232].
  • Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton, [232].
  • Table Talk, [240], [243], [246].
• Collier, John Payne, [162].
• Collins, William. Verses addressed to Sir Thomas Hanmer, [92].
• Colman, George, [224].
  • Prose on several Occasions, [224].
  • His translation of Terence, [224].
• Combe, William. The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, [308].
• Coming of Love, The. By Theodore Watts-Dunton, [325].
• Condell, Henrie, and John Heminge. To the Great Variety of Readers, from the Shakespeare First Folio, [46].
• Conduct of Life. By Ralph Waldo Emerson, [251].
• Congreve, William, [12], [114].
• Conjectures on Original Composition. By Edward Young, [104], [224].
• Connoisseur, The. Its attitude towards Shakespeare, [21].
• Cook, A. S. Leigh Hunt’s Imagination and Fancy, [250].
• Court Burlesqu’d, The. By Samuel Butler. Possible allusion to Shakespeare in, [5 n.]
• Covent Garden Drollery. Collected by A. B., [69].
• Covent Garden Theatre, Dr. Syntax in the pit of, [308].
• Creation, The. By Sir Richard Blackmore, [21].
• Crowne, John. Prologue to Henry the Sixth, [220].
• Cunningham, Peter. Letters of Horace Walpole, [99], [226], [305].
• Cymbeline, [148].
• Daniel, George. Vindication of Poesie, [58].
• D’Avenant, Sir William, [53].
  • His adaptations of Shakespeare’s Plays, [10].
  • Ode. In Remembrance of Master William Shakespeare, from Madagascar, [54].
  • His version of The Tempest, [67].
• Davies, John. “To our English Terence, Mr. Will Shakespeare,” from The Scourge of Folly, [38].
• Dennis, John. An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare, [82].
• De Quincey, Thomas. His article on “Pope” in the Encyclopædia Britannica, [248].
  • His article on “Shakespeare” in the Encyclopædia Britannica, [150], [248].
  • His criticism of Pope’s Preface, [87 n.]
  • His misinterpretation of the allusion to Shakespeare in Milton’s Eikonoklastes, [8].
  • On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth, [30], [152 n.]
  • Schlosser’s Literary History, [254].
• Dialogues of the Dead. By Lord Lyttelton, [292].
• Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, [62].
• Dibdin, J. B. Letter to, from Charles Lamb, [313].
• Digges, Leonard. To the Memory of the deceased Author, Maister W. Shakespeare: from the Shakespeare First Folio, [47].
• Dodsley, J. His Collection of Poems by Several Hands, [26 n.], [123].
• Dowden, Edward. Shakespeare, his Mind and Art, [28], [190], [267].
• Dramatic Poesie, An Essay. By John Dryden, [67].
• Dramatic Poetry, An Essay on. By a Person of Honour, [74].
• Dramatic Race, The, [298].
• Dramatic Unities, Of the. By John Armstrong, [100].
• Drayton, Michael. To my most dearly-beloved friend Henery Reynolds, from The Battaile of Agincourt, [48].
• Dryden, John, [3], [10], [114].
  • His contemporary fame, [22].
  • Defence of the Epilogue, [68].
  • The first skilled critic of Shakespeare, [11].
  • His influence on eighteenth century literature, [13].
  • Of Dramatic Poesie, [66].
  • Prologue to The Tempest, [66].
  • Prologue to Troilus and Cressida, [67].
• Dyce, Alexander, [162].
• Dyer, George. Poetics, [231].
• Earth’s Holocaust. By Nathaniel Hawthorne, [314].
• Edinburgh Review. Article by Carlyle in, [158].
  • Articles by Jeffrey in, [133], [230].
  • Articles by Macaulay in, [160], [245].
• Edwards, Thomas, [303], [304 n.]
  • Canons of Criticism, [281].
• Edwin and Emma. By David Mallet, [24].
• Eikonoklastes. By John Milton. Allusion to Shakespeare in, [7].
• Elegie on the Death of the famous Writer and Actor, Mr. William Shakespeare, from Shakespeare’s Poems, [55].
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Conduct of Life, [262].
  • Representative Men, [162], [251].
  • Shakespeare, or the Poet, [162].
• Encyclopædia Britannica, [150], [208], [248].
• England and Spain. By Felicia Dorothea Hemans, [229].
• Enthusiast, The. By Joseph Warton, [91].
• Epigrammes and Epitaphs. By Thomas Bancroft, [57].
• Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut and Newest Fashion. By John Weever, [37].
• Epigrams. By Samuel Sheppard, [59].
• Epigrams of Art, Life, and Nature. By William Watson, [270].
• Epitaph on a Tombstone of Shakespeare, [223].
• Essays, Critical and Imaginative. By John Wilson, [140].
• Essays in Criticism. By Matthew Arnold, [195].
• Euphrosyne. By Richard Graves, [225].
• Falstaff, [308].
• Farmer, Richard, [304] and [n.]
  • Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare, [224].
• Fennell’s Shakespeare Repository, [40].
• Fenton, Elijah. An Epistle to Mr. Southerne, [80].
• Ferney: An Epistle to Monsr. De Voltaire. By George Keate, [112].
• Fielding, Henry. A Journey from this World to the Next, [279].
• First Folio Edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [6], [42], [45], [46], [47].
• Five Books of Song. By Richard Watson Gilder, [212].
• Fletcher, John, compared with Shakespeare, [66], [80], [92].
  • His “solecism of speech,” [68].
• Forman, H. Buxton. Works of John Keats, [138].
• Fors Clavigera. By John Ruskin, [273].
• Freeman, Thomas. To Master W. Shakespeare, from Runne, and a Great Caste, [39].
• Froude, James Anthony. Short Studies on Great Subjects, [167].
• Fuller, Thomas. The History of the Worthies of England, [61].
• Furnivall, Dr. Frederick James. The Leopold Shakspere, [192].
  • Some 300 Fresh Allusions to Shakspere from 1594 to 1694, [viii], [5].
• Fuseli, John Henry, [148].
• Garden Inscriptions. By William Thomson, [110].
• Garrick, David, [144].
  • His criticism of Johnson’s praise of Shakespeare, [94].
  • Epistle to. By Robert Lloyd, [106].
  • Shakespeare’s debt to, [106].
  • His connection with the Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford-on-Avon, [25].
  • His Shakespeare temple at Hampton, [26], [306-7].
  • Verses addressed to, [25].
  • Warwickshire: A Song, from Shakespeare’s Garland, [113].
• Gastrell, Rev. Dr. F., and Shakespeare’s mulberry tree, [10], [185].
• Genius and Writings on Shakespeare, An Essay on the. By John Dennis, [82].
• Genius of Shakespeare, To the. By James Hogg, [146].
• Gentleman’s Magazine, [223], [301].
• Gilbert, William Schwenck. An Unfortunate Likeness, from More Bab Ballads, [318].
• Gilder, Richard Watson. The Twenty-third of April, from Five Books of Song, [212].
• Goethe, Carlyle’s Essay on, [242].
  • Compared with Shakespeare, [158], [159].
• Goethe reviewed after Sixty Years. By J. R. Seeley, [272].
• Goldsmith, Oliver. A Reverie at the Boar’s Head Inn, [291].
• Graves, Richard. On Erecting a Monument to Shakespeare, from Euphrosyne, [225].
• Gray, Thomas. The Progress of Poesy, [102].
• Guardian, The. Its attitude towards Shakespeare, [20].
• Guesses at Truth. By Julius Charles Hare, [145].
• Hales, John. Quoted in Rowe’s edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [53].
• Hallam, Henry. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, [155].
• Hamilton, William. A Soliloquy in Imitation of Hamlet, [24].
• Hamlet, [323].
  • Early æsthetic criticism of, [27].
• Hanmer, Sir Thomas. His edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [16], [93].
  • Verses addressed to. By William Collins, [92].
• Hare, Julius Charles. Guesses at Truth, [145].
• Hawkins, Sir John, [303], [304 n.]
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Earth’s Holocaust, from Mosses from an Old Manse, [314].
  • Our Old Home, [175].
  • On visiting Shakespeare’s house, [175].
• Hayley, William. A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter [George Romney], [120].
• Hazlitt, William, [ix], [28].
  • Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, Jeffrey’s review of, [134].
  • On Dryden and Pope, [136].
  • Lectures on the English Poets, [135-7], [189], [234].
  • Round Table, The, [137].
  • On Shakespeare and Milton, [135], [234].
  • Table Talk, [237].
• Headley, Henry. Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, [26 n.]
• Heine’s Grave. By Matthew Arnold, [265].
• Hemans, Felicia Dorothea. England and Spain, [229].
  • Shakespeare, [128].
• Heminge, John, and Henrie Condell. To the great Variety of Readers, from the Shakespeare First Folio, [46].
• Henry V. Performance of, witnessed by Samuel Pepys, [62].
• Henry VI., part I. John Crowne’s adaptation of, [220].
• Heroes and Hero Worship, On. By Thomas Carlyle, [157].
• Higden, Henry. The Wary Widdow, or Sir Noisy Parrat, [75].
• History of England. By David Hume, [97].
• Hogg, James. To the Genius of Shakespeare, from Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd, [146].
• Holland, Hugh. Upon the Lines and Life of the Famous Scenick Poet, Master William Shakespeare, from the Shakespeare First Folio, [45].
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Poet at the Breakfast Table, [323].
  • Shakespeare Tercentennial Celebration, from Songs of Many Seasons, [177].
• Hood, Thomas. The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, [241].
• Hospitall of Incurable Fooles, [328] and [n.]
• Hughes, John. Verses to Mr. Addison, [23].
• Hugo, Victor. Shakespeare, [10], [28].
  • On Shakespeare’s posthumous fame, [10].
• Hume, David. History of England, [97].
• Hunt, Leigh. Associations with Shakespeare from Table Talk, [166].
  • Blue-Stocking Revels, [247].
  • Thoughts on the Avon, [233].
  • What is Poetry? from Imagination and Fancy, [250].
• Hymn to the Moon. By D. M. Moir, [257].
• Hymn to the Nymph of Bristol. By William Whitehead, [24].
• Idea of a University, The. By John Henry Newman, [171].
• Idea of Comedy, On the. By George Meredith, [191].
• Imaginary Conversations. By Walter Savage Landor, [253], [316].
• Imagination and Fancy. By Leigh Hunt, [247].
• Imitations of Horace. By Alexander Pope, [221].
• Immortal Memory of Shakespeare, To the, [116].
• I. M. S. On Worthy Master Shakespeare and his Poems, from the Shakespeare Second Folio, [50].
  • Coleridge’s conjecture as to the identity of, [7], [52 n.]
• Ingleby, Dr. Shakespeare’s Centurie of Prayse, [vii], [4].
• Inscription, An. By Mark Akenside, [105].
• In Shakespeare’s Walk. By William Thompson, [110].
• Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries. By Henry Hallam, [155].
• James I. His influence on literature, [12], [13].
• Jeffrey, Francis, Lord, [230].
  • His article on Hazlitt’s Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays in the Edinburgh Review, [133].
• Jennens, Charles, [303], [304 n.]
• Johnson, Dr. Samuel, his attitude towards Shakespeare, [16].
  • His criticism of Capell’s Preface, [107].
  • His edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [17-18], [111].
  • His edition of British Poets, [21-22].
  • The effect of his judgment on contemporary thought, [19-20].
  • His indictment and defence of Shakespeare, [17-18].
  • His connection with the Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford-on-Avon, [25].
  • His Life. By James Boswell, [94], [107].
  • His position as a literary censor, [14].
  • His Prologue at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, 1747, [94].
  • The Rambler, [111].
• Jonson, Ben, [74].
  • Compared with Shakespeare, [15], [53], [66], [69], [80], [92], [98], [104].
  • To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, from the Shakespeare First Folio, [42].
• Johnstone, ——. The Table Talker, [156].
• Journey from this World to the Next, A. By Henry Fielding, [279].
• Keate, George, Ferney: an Epistle to Monsr. De Voltaire, [112].
• Keats, John. Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, [236].
  • Notes on Troilus and Cressida, [138].
  • Sonnet on sitting down to read “King Lear” once again, [138].
• Kemble, Frances Anne. To Shakespeare, [183].
• Kid, Thomas, [43].
• King Lear, [145], [148], [214].
  • Nahum Tate’s “borrowings” from, [10].
  • Sonnet on sitting down to read it once again. By John Keats, [138].
• Knight, Charles. His history of opinion respecting Shakespeare, [vii].
  • Studies of Shakespeare, [vii].
• Lamb, Charles, [ix].
  • Epilogue to an amateur performance of “Richard II.,” [144].
  • Letter to J. B. Dibdin, [313].
  • Letter to Samuel Rogers on portraits of Shakespeare, [148].
  • Works. Edited by E. V. Lucas, [144], [148], [313].
• Landor, Walter Savage.
  • Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare, [30].
  • Imaginary Conversations, [253], [316].
  • On Shakespeare, [253].
  • Comparison between Shakespeare and Bacon, [316].
  • Shakespeare and Milton, from The lost Fruit off an old Tree, [170].
• Lansdowne, Lord, Epistle to. By Edward Young, [83].
• Learning of Shakespeare, Essay on the. By Richard Farmer, [224].
• Lectures on the English Poets. By William Hazlitt, [135-7].
• Lee, Sidney, and the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, [v].
  • Life of William Shakespeare, [215].
  • Shakespeare in Oral Tradition, [5].
• Leopold Shakspere, The. Edited by F. J. Furnivall, [192].
• Library of Old Authors. By James Russell Lowell, [173].
• Lily, William, [43].
• Lincoln, Abraham, [261].
• Lines written among the Euganean Hills. By P. B. Shelley, [235].
• Lines written in Switzerland. By T. L. Beddoes, [258].
• Literary Amusements. By Daniel Webb, [227].
• Lloyd, David. State Worthies, [13].
• Lloyd, Robert. The Progress of Envy, [288].
  • Shakespeare, an Epistle to Mr. Garrick, [25], [106].
• Locker-Lampson, Frederick. His copy of the 1602 Quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor, [198].
• London Cuckolds, The. By Edward Ravenscroft. A performance of, criticised by Steele, [76].
• Lost Fruit off an old Tree, The. By Walter Savage Landor, [170].
• Love’s Labour’s Lost, [194].
  • Dryden’s criticism of, [68].
• Lowell, James Russell. Among My Books, [174], [266].
  • Library of Old Authors, [173].
  • On Shakespeare’s “artistic discretion” and the “impersonality” of his writings, [174].
• Lucas, E. V. Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, [144], [148], [313].
• Lusiad, The. By William Julius Mickle, [119].
• Lyrical Ballads. By Wordsworth and Coleridge, [27].
• Lyttelton, George, Lord. Dialogues of the Dead, [292].
• Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Lord. The Souls of Books, [259].
• Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord, [295].
  • Essay on The Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay in the Edinburgh Review, [160].
• Macbeth, [145].
  • D’Avenant’s adaptation of, [10].
  • De Quincey on the knocking at the gate in, [30].
  • Performance of, described by Addison, [278].
  • Performances of, witnessed by Samuel Pepys, [62], [63].
• Mackay, Charles. Mist, from Under Green Leaves, [260].
• Madagascar. By Sir William D’Avenant, [54].
• Malone, Edmund. His edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [20].
• Mallet, David. Edwin and Emma, [24].
  • Of Verbal Criticism, [103].
• Mann, Sir Horace. Letter to, from Horace Walpole, [226].
• Marlowe, Christopher, [43].
• Mason, William. Caractacus, [101].
• Massey, Gerald. The Secret Drama of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, [209].
• Masson, David. Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and other Essays, [168].
• Merchant of Venice, The. The Connoisseur’s criticism of, [20].
• Meredith, George. On the Idea of Comedy, [191].
  • The Spirit of Shakespeare, from Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth, [202].
• Meres, Francis. Palladis Tamia, [35].
• Merry Wives of Windsor. Manuscript note in 1602 Quarto of, [189].
• Mickle, William Julius. The Lusiad, [119].
• Midsummer Night’s Dream. Performance of, witnessed by Samuel Pepys, [62].
• Mighty Makers, The. By William Wetmore Story, [205].
• Milnes, Richard Monckton. Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats, [138].
• Milton, John, [127].
  • Compared with Shakespeare, [131], [170].
  • Credited with authorship of verses signed I. M. S., [52].
  • Eikonoklastes, [7], [9].
  • An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare, from the Shakespeare Second Folio, [49].
  • L’Allegro, [9].
  • Mistaken conception of his attitude towards Shakespeare, [7-10].
  • His tributes to Shakespeare, [9-10].
• Minto, William. Characteristics of English Poets, [189].
• Miscellaneous Pieces of Ancient English Poetry. Collected by John Bowle, [26 n.]
• Moir, D. M. Hymn to the Moon, [257].
  • Stanzas on an Infant, [257].
• Monody written near Stratford-upon-Avon. By Thomas Warton, [121].
• Montagu, George. Letter to, from Horace Walpole, [99].
• Moore, Thomas. Life of Byron, [239].
• Mosses from an Old Manse. By Nathaniel Hawthorne, [314].
• Moulton, G. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist, [271].
• Much Ado About Nothing, [295].
• Mystery of Life and its Arts, The. By John Ruskin, [184].
• Names, The. By Robert Browning, [204].
• Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of. CCXI Sociable Letters, [64], [277].
• Newman, John Henry. The Idea of a University, [171].
• New Shakspere Society, [4].
• Northcote, James, [148].
• Opie, John, [148].
• Ossory, Countess of. Letter to, from Horace Walpole, [305].
• Othello, Disputed line in, [279].
  • Christopher Smart’s Prologue to, [96].
• Otway, Thomas, [114].
  • Prologue to The History and Fall of Caius Marius, [72].
• Our Old Home. By Nathaniel Hawthorne, [175].
• Palgrave, Francis Turner. Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, [181].
• Palladis Tamia. By Francis Meres, [35].
• Pater, Walter Horatio. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, [193].
• Pattison, William. His verses To Mr. John Saunders, [23].
• Pearch, G. His Supplement to Dodsley’s Collection of Poems by Several Hands, [26 n.]
• Pepys, Samuel. Diary and Correspondence, edited by Lord Braybrooke, [62].
• Percy, Bishop, [304] and [n.]
• Pericles. Dryden’s criticism of, [68].
• Phillips, Edward. Theatrum Poetarum, [10], [71].
• Philosophical Analysis of some of Shakespeare’s Remarkable Characters. By William Richardson, [117].
• Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, The. By Thomas Hood, [241].
• Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth. By George Meredith, [202].
• Poems by Several Hands. Collected by J. Dodsley, [26 n.]
  • Pearch’s Supplement to, [26 n.]
• Poems Collected and Arranged anew. By Archbishop Trench, [180].
• Poems in Divers Humors. By Richard Barnfield, [36].
• Poems on Various Subjects. Collected by Thomas Tomkins, [26 n.]
• Poet at the Breakfast Table, The. By Oliver Wendell Holmes, [323].
• Poetical Portraits. By “A Modern Pythagorean,” [244].
• Poetics. By George Dyer, [231].
• Pope, Alexander, [225].
  • And Boileau, [292].
  • His contemporary fame, [22].
  • His criticism and defence of Shakespeare, [14-16].
  • De Quincey’s criticism of, [87 n.]
  • His edition of Shakespeare’s Works, [15], [16], [85], [292].
  • Imitations of Horace, [221].
  • On Shakespeare’s learning, [15].
• Porson, Richard, and Robert Southey. Imaginary conversation. By W. S. Landor, [316].
• Porter, Endymion, [53].
• Progress of Envy, The. By Robert Lloyd, [288].
• Progress of Poesy, The. By Thomas Gray, [102].
• Prose on Several Occasions. By George Colman, [224].
• Quarles, Francis. Argalus and Parthenia, [5 n.]
• Queen Mab. By Isaac Bickerstaff, [299].
• Quin, James, [308].
• Rambler, The. By Dr. Johnson, [111].
• Rape of Lucrece. Edward Phillips’ criticism of, [71].
• Raphael. His picture, The Transfiguration, [112].
• Ravenscroft, Edward. The London Cuckolds, A performance of, criticised by Steele, [76].
• Reflector, The, [231].
• Remonstrance of Shakespeare, The. By Mark Akenside, [284].
• Representative Men. By Ralph Waldo Emerson, [162], [251].
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  • Compared with Bacon, [168], [316].
  • Compared with Fletcher, [92].
  • Compared with Goethe, [158], [159].
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FOOTNOTES:

[vii:1] This volume bore the title, Studies of Shakspere: introductory volume, containing A History of Opinion on the Writings of Shakspere; with the Chronology of his Plays. The book in this form seems now to be difficult of access. No copy of it is in the British Museum Library. I acquired a copy for a few pence many years ago.

[5:1] I can myself add nothing but suggestions of possible borrowings from Shakespearean diction. In the poem, The Court Burlesqu’d, printed in Samuel Butler’s Remains, the lines—

“This, by a rat behind the curtain