[159.] For titles and publishers of reference works see General Bibliography at the end of this book.
[160.] See, for instance, the "Hymn to St. Theresa" and "The Flaming Heart."
[161.] So called from Pindar, the greatest lyric poet of Greece.
[162.] See, for instance, "Childhood," "The Retreat," "Corruption," "The Bird," "The Hidden Flower," for Vaughan's mystic interpretation of childhood and nature.
[163.] There is some doubt as to whether he was born at the Castle, or at Black Hall. Recent opinion inclines to the latter view.
[164.] "On his being arrived to the Age of Twenty-three."
[165.] "It is remarkable," says Lamartine, "how often in the libraries of Italian princes and in the correspondence of great Italian writers of this period you find mentioned the name and fame of this young Englishman."
[166.] In Milton's work we see plainly the progressive influence of the Puritan Age. Thus his Horton poems are joyous, almost Elizabethan in character; his prose is stern, militant, unyielding, like the Puritan in his struggle for liberty; his later poetry, following the apparent failure of Puritanism in the Restoration, has a note of sadness, yet proclaims the eternal principles of liberty and justice for which he had lived.
[167.] Of these sixty were taken from the Bible, thirty-three from English and five from Scotch history.
[168.] The latter was by Lewis Bayly, bishop of Bangor. It is interesting to note that this book, whose very title is unfamiliar to us, was speedily translated into five different languages. It had an enormous sale, and ran through fifty editions soon after publication.