after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Pentralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge-With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
Plato would agree with this,-all but the last sentence. Only, in place of the phrase "negative capability," he would substitute "incapability," and reflect that the poet fails to see absolute beauty because he is not content to leave the sensual behind and press on to absolute reality.
It may be that Plato is right, yet one cannot help wishing that sometime a poet may arise of greater power of persuasion than any with whom we have dealt, who will prove to Plato what he appears ever longing to be convinced of, that absolute ideality is not a negation of the sensual, and that poetry, in revealing the union of sense and spirit, is the strongest proof of idealism that we possess. A poet may yet arise who will prove that he is right in refusing to acknowledge that this world is merely a surface upon which is reflected the ideals which constitute reality and which abide in a different realm. The assumption in that conception is that, if men have spiritual vision, they may apprehend ideals directly, altogether apart from sense. On the contrary, the impression given by the poet is that ideality constitutes the very essence of the so-called physical world, and that this essence is continually striving to express itself through refinement and remolding of the
outer crust of things. So, when the world of sense comes to express perfectly the ideal, it will not be a mere representation of reality. It will be reality. If he can prove this, we must acknowledge that, not the rationalistic philosopher, but the poet, grasps reality in toto.
However inconclusive his proof, the claims of the poet must fascinate one with their implications. The two aspects of human life, the physical and the ideal, focus in the poet, and the result is the harmony which is art. The fact is of profound philosophical significance, surely, for union of the apparent contradictions of the sensual and the spiritual can only mean that idealism is of the essence of the universe. What is the poetic metaphor but the revelation of an identical meaning in the physical and spiritual world? The sympathetic reader of poetry cannot but see the reflection of the spiritual in the sensual, and the sensual in the spiritual, even as does the poet, and one, as the other, must be by temperament an idealist.
Addison, Joseph, 234 "A. E." (see George William Russell)
Aeschylus, 23, 41, 288 Agathon, 116, 154, 155, 156 Akins, Zoë, 127 Alcaeus, 65
Aldrich, Anne Reeve, 101 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 211 Alexander, Hartley Burr, 123 Alexander, William, 168 Allston, Washington, 286 Ambercrombe, Lascelles, 94 Anderson, Margaret Steele, 186
Angelo, Michael, 23, 38, 282 Arensberg, Walter Conrad, 343
Aristotle, 3, 4, 12, 13, 118, 119,
292, 295, 297 Arnold, Edwin, 84 Arnold, Matthew, 335, 337, 338; his discontent, 34; on the poet's death, 81, in- spiration 211, loneliness 52, 53, 93, morality 242, relig- ion 269, usefulness 304, 314, 315, 324, youth 105, 106; his sense of superiority, 29 Arnold, Thomas, 267 Asquith, Herbert, 288 Austin, Alfred, 133, 145, 211, 312
Beattie, James, 58, 61, 90, 188, 242, 310
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 195 Beers, Henry A., 164 Benét, Stephen Vincent, 24,
Benét, William Rose, 31, 45, 196, 204, 266
Bennet, William, 62, 211 Binyon, Robert Lawrence, 205
Blake, William, later poets on, 217, 265, 271; on in- spiration, 170, 196, 199, 202; on the poet as truthteller, 304; on the poet's religion, 271
Blunden, Edmund, 196 Boccaccio, 286
Boker, George Henry, 105 Borrow, George, 96 Bowles, William Lisle, 72, 80,
90, 92, 100, 195, 273, 304, 310, 314, 334
Branch, Anna Hempstead, 58, 164
Brawne, Fanny H., 4 Bridges, Robert, 41, 202 Brontë, Emily, 84, 93, 103, 272, 278
Brooke, Rupert, 67, 70, 71, 103, 109, 124, 126, 128, 136, 287 Browne, T. E., 63, 100 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, appearance, 74; Aurora Leigh, 57, 61, 69; on Keats, 68; on the poet's age, 100; content with his own time 35, democracy 319, eyes 70, 71, habitat 93, 95,
health 78, 79, humanitari- anism 36, inferiority to his creations 19, inspiration 169, 174, 179, 186, 198, 209, love 112, 118, 134, 139, 144, 148, 150, morals 218, pain 40, 195, personality 12, re- ligion 279, resentment at patronage 29, 37, 44, 63, self-consciousness 14, self- expression 204, sex 87, 88, 89, usefulness 301, 303, 304, 320, 321, 322; other poets on, 84
Browning, Robert, 335, 336, 337; on fame, 33, 84; on inspiration, 167, 175, 177, 180, 202; on the poet's beauty 89, loneliness 53, love 114, 116, 140, morals 216, 224, 226, 237, 248, 249, 250, persecutions 41, pride 24, religion 276, 278, self- expression II, 112, sex 87, superiority 30, 32, 33, 36, usefulness 289, 303, 313, 318; on Shakespeare, 5, 6, 50; on Shelley, 44, 243, 349; Sordello, 29, 57, 61, 74, 79, 83. 103, 202, 253, 315, 326; other poets on, 63, 66
Bryant, William Cullen, 47,
105, 119, 164, 207, 208 Buchanan, Robert, 63, 235 Bunker, John Joseph, 288 Burke, Edmund, 347 Burleigh, William Henry, 72, 77, 312 Burnet, Dana, IOI Burns, Robert, his self-de- preciation, 188; on the poet's caste 61, habitat 90, 91, inspiration 164, 170, 196, 197, love of liberty 318, morals 227, persecutions 40, poverty 98, 100, superi- ority 28; other poets on, 43, 97, 218, 247, 275 Burton, Richard, 41, 167
Butler, Samuel, 97 Byron, Lord, 4, 10, 335, 336, 338; his body, 64, 65, 79; escape from himself in poetry, 6; friendship with Shelley, 52; indifference to fame, 28; later poets on, 23, 43, 133, 247; his morals, 211, 221, 225, 229, 237, 254, 255; his mother, 59; his re- ligion, 273, 274; self-por- traits in verse, 26, 32, 33, 44, 60, 90, 92, 96, 101, 121; superiority, 295; on Tasso, 25, 42, 147
Campbell, Thomas, 62, 91, 108 Campion, Thomas, 346 Candole, Alec de, 211 Carlin, Francis, 63, 72, 96, 318
Carlyle, Thomas, 232, 323 Carman, Bliss, 305 Carpenter, Rhys, 318 Cary, Alice, 193, 210 Cary, Elisabeth Luther, 95 Cassells, S. J., 40 Cavalcanti, Guido, 233 Cawein, Madison, 92, 94, 211, 238, 300
Cellini, Benvenuto, 202 Cervantes, 97
Chapman, George, 185 Chatterton, Thomas, 23, 24, 41, 97
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 10, 46, 64,
74, 75, 97, III, 174 Cheney, Annie Elizabeth, 123, 175 Chénièr, André, 42
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, 40,
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, appearance, 69, 70; on Blake, 218; on Chatterton, 42; friendship with Wordsworth, 51; on the poet's habitat 90, health 79, love 120, morals 223, 237, reflection in nature 9, re- ligion 263, 268, youth 105, usefulness 304, 318; later poets on 165
Collins, William, 89, 97, 237 Colonna, Vittoria, 15 Colvin, Sidney, 5, 70, 153 Conkling, Grace Hazard, 288 Cornwall, Barry (see Proc- ter, Bryan Waller) Cowper, William, 27, 58, 90, 195, 277
Cox, Ethel Louise, 314 Crabbe, George, 37, 61, 196, 229, 312 Crashaw, Richard, 348 Cratylus, 255
Dana, Richard Henry, 49 Daniel, Samuel, 346 D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 286 Dante, 23, 42, 153, 161, 166, 187, 259, 282, 286; G. L. Raymond on, 142, 233; Os- car Wilde on, 82; Sara King Wiley on, 142 Dargan, Olive, 89, 141 David, 288
Davidson, John, 24, 59, 63,
73, 95, 224, 263 Davies, William Henry, 96 Dermody, Thomas, 195 Descartes, 332
Dickinson, Emily, 205, 285 Dionysodorus, 7 Dobell, Sidney, 84
Dobson, Austin, 34, 95, 164, 206, 296
Dommett, Alfred, 96
Donne, John, 286
Dowden, Edward, 42,
Dowson, Ernest, 142, 172, 225 Drake, Joseph_Rodman, 49 Drinkwater, John, 51, 186, 305
Druce, C. J., 140
Dryden, John, 97, 346, 349 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 40,
47 Dunroy, William_Reed, 35 Dunsany, Lord Edward, 78 Dyer, Sidney, 89
Ehrman, Max, 35, 204, 211 Elijah, 200
Eliot, Ebenezer, 217 Eliot, George, 314, 325 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, his contempt for the public, 30, 33; his democracy, 46; his humility, 18; on inspi- ration, 164 165, 166, 175, 199, 200, 201, 202; on love of fame, 34; on the poet's divinity 24, love 150, mor- als 251, poverty 101, soli- tude 48, 94, 286, usefulness 206, 290, 300, 304, 314, 322, 323, 324 Euripedes, 41 Euthydemus, 7
Evans, Mrs. E. H., 17
Faimer, C. H., 17 Fairfield, S. L., 40 Field, Eugene, 25, 314 Flecker, James Elroy, 35, 94, 197, 307 Flint, F. S., 49
French, Daniel Chester, 14 Freneau, Philip Morin, 84, 127, 318
Fuller, Frances, 69 Fuller, Metta, 69
Gage, Mrs. Frances, 49 Garnett, Richard, 41, 287 Gibson, Wilfred Wilson, 67, 70, 101 Giddings, Franklin Henry, 164
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