Bacon, Francis, 173, 174, 420.

Balaustion's Adventure," 429.

"Balin and Balan," 504.
Barrett, Elizabeth, 378, 408.
Bath-Kol, 366.

Beatrice, 109, 111, 116, 121, 145, 148.
"Becket," 482, 508.

Befreier, Der, epithet desired by
Goethe, 329.

"Bishop Blougram's Apology," 382.
"Blackwood's Magazine," 460.
"Break, Break, Break," 501.

Bringing the Good News from
Ghent," 382.

Browning, Robert: his poetry and his
theology, 375-447; occasion of essay
upon, 373-377; his portrait, 376; his
life till death of his wife, 377, 378;

his notoriety, 378; his range, 381-
384; his "Ring and the Book," 384-
387; possesses the faculty of ideal-
ization, 387-397; is he serious? 397,
398; are his writings healthful? 398-
400; as a literary artist, 400-412; his
optimism, 413-431; is an evolution-
ist, 418-421; believes in God, 421,
422; is a monist, 422-425; sees God
revealed in human personality, 425-
427; sees love of God in Christ, 427-
431; in a later aspect, 431-444; in-
fluence of his wife's death, 445; has
hopes for the bad, 446; his own
prospect, 446.

Brutes: have percepts, 161; have some
imagination, 161.

Byron, 335, 379, 458, 522.

Carlyle, Thomas, 13, 154, 291, 322, 376,

415.

"Charge of the Heavy Brigade," 495.
"Charge of the Light Brigade," 473.
Chorizontes, 5.

Christ according to Goethe, 320, 321;
Browning's estimate of, 427; Lamb's
estimate of, 428; nature as the body
of, 428; nature as the face of, 428,
429.

"Christmas Eve," 422, 424, 439, 442.
Christianity: Goethe's estimate of, 321,
322; unconscious plagiarisms from,

369.

Coleridge: on " Withstanding," 254;
on the "Prelude," 339; his "Folian
Harp," 350; relations of, with Words-
worth, 351, 352; on an illusion of
memory, 354.

"Comedy, The Divine": the monu
ment of Beatrice, 111; Dante's pre-
paredness for writing, 111-114; the
intention of, 114-121; the poem de-
scribed, 121-150; its cosmology, 122,

Dante and "The Divine Comedy":
considered, 105-155; how essay origi-
nated, 107, 108.

Dante Alighieri: the time of his birth,
108, 109; relations to Beatrice, 109-
111; how qualified to be author of
"The Divine Comedy," 111-114; his
aim in his great work, 114-121; his
scheme of the universe, 122-124; as
a versifier, 124, 126; his " Comedy "
described, 126-149; the most sensi-
tive of poets, 150; his ruling concep-
tion of heaven, 151, 152; his view of
saintship, 152-154; an intense realist,
154; the voice of all centuries, 154,
155; why his work will endure, 155.
"Daughter of the Voice, The," phrase
explained, 366.

Dead, The, in Homer, 56.

"Death in the Desert, A," 395, 431, 438.
"Death of the Duke of Wellington,
Ode on,
473.

Deism: Upton upon, 337; isolates, 337;
robs man, 337; makes nature a ma-
chine, 337; separates man and na-
ture, 337; in England, 415.
Descartes, his "Treatise on Method,"
339.

"Despair," Tennyson's, criticised, 518.
Dewey, on creative imagination as evi-
dence of unity of universe, 220.

heaven and hell, 134, 135; his "His-
tory of Redemption," 246.
Eliot, George: her double plots, 167;
scepticism in her works, 209; knows
the evangelical system, 292; exag-
gerates heredity, 391; on Tennyson's
plays, 483.

Emerson: on Goethe's "Elective Af-

finities," 296; on universality of
beauty, 338; on duty and ability, 390.
English tongue: influence of Bible on,
125; in Shakespeare's time, 172; Ba-
con on, 173.
Ennius: as predecessor of Virgil, 74;
deficient in art, 74; his " Annals,"
74; Virgil's use of, 76.
Epic, the appeals to wonder, 10; a
kind of story-telling, 32; its con-
genial conditions, 32; a recreation,
35.

Epigraphy: Greek, 21-23; Latin, 24;

Hebrew, 24; Egyptian, 24; Baby-
lonian, 24, 25.

"Epilogue, The," Browning's, 393.
"Epilogue to Dramatis Personæ,'
Browning's, 428.

Falstaff, his deathbed, 210.
Fate, in Homer, 39.
"Faust": its place among poet's
works, 315; its features, 315–317; first
part of, 317; second part of, 318–320; a
criticism on second part of, 324, 325.
"Ferishtah's Fancies," 394, 397, 405,
434, 443.
Fichte, 338.

"Fireside, By the," of Browning, 384.
"Flight of the Duchess, The," Brown-
ing's, 384, 408.

Flint, on subjective tendency to pan-
theism, 198.

"Francis Turini," Browning's, 438.
Future life, Homer's views of, 55-59.

"Georgics," 79-81.

"Giaour, The," 380.

Gladstone, on Homeric question, 7.
God as presented in Homer, 42, 53, 54;
his immanence, 337.

Gods of Homer; characteristics of, 37,
38; inconsistently delineated, 38;
why unmoral, 46.
Goethe: on Homeric authorship, 6; his
references to his own poems, 19; a
dictum of, 129; "The Poet of Pan-
theism," 279-331; compared with
Luther, 281; parentage of, 283, 284;
characteristics of, 284-286; his habit
of falling in love, 287; his treatment
of his mother, 288; affair of, with
Frederike Brion, 288; writes the
"Roman Elegies," 288; concubinage
of, 289, 304, 305; his treatment of
Kestner, 289; unpatriotic, 290; self-
confident, 290; letter of, to Lavater,
291; influence on, of Fraulein von
Klettenberg, 292, 293; his "Confes-
sions of a Beautiful Soul," 292; with-
draws from religious services, 294;
his "Generalbeichte," 294; his "hea-
thenism," 295, 296; his Spinozism,
296, 297; does not know true God, 298;
the character of his philosophy, 298,
299; his religion of health and joy,
300; some truth in his philosophy,
300; an evolutionist, 301; loses hold
on ethical distinctions, 301; old age
of, 301, 305; his view of sin and re-
pentance, 302; Tennyson's estimate

of, 302, 331; life of, at Weimar, 302,
303; spending a year in Italy, 304;
connection of, with Frau von Stein,
303, 304; bereavements of, 306; moral
sense of, quickened, 306; reply of,
to Augusta von Stolberg, 306; letter
to Zelter, 307; his offer of marriage
declined, 307; visited by Thackeray,
307; death, 307; his "Goetz von Ber-
lichingen," and criticisms thereof,
308; his "Sorrows of Werther," 309;
the second period of his literary life,
311-315; third period of his literary
life, 315; composes "Faust," 315, 316-
320; views of Christ and Christianity,
321, 322; why influential, 325, 326;
style of, 326; relation of, to nature.
326, 327; lyrics of, 327, 328; his method
of using Christian terminology, 320:
his influence on modern fiction, 328;
how a Befreier, 329; how a political
liberator of Germany, 330; how an
enslaver of Fatherland, 330; his defi-
nition of nature, 364.

"Goetz von Berlichingen," 308, 309.
Grail, the Holy, legend of, 478, 480, 510,

511.

"Grammarian's Funeral, The," 444.
Grote, on composition of "Iliad" and
"Odyssey," 6.

Hamilton, Sir W., 389, 483.
Hamlet, 159, 168, 181, 194, 200-206.
"Hang-draw-and Quarterly," 460.
Heavens, the, of Dante, 123.
Hector, 9, 14, 41, 47.
Hegel, 298, 416.

Hegenanism, its need, 392.

Helen: 41, 48, 60; marries Faust, 318.
Hell of Dante, 122, 137.
Hellanicus, a Chorizont, 5.

"Henry IV.": mentioned 180; Part I.,
208, 213; Part II., 176, 198.
"Henry V.": mention of, 179, 180, 204,
207, 210.

"Henry VI.": introduced, 178, 180;
Part I., 198; Part II., 195, 201, 203-205,
208, 209; Part III., 189.
Heredity, limited, 509.
Hermes, 36, 38, 42.
Hesiod, 79.

Historical plays of Shakespeare, 180.

Hohenstiel-Schwangau," 419, 421, 422.
Homer: how estimated, 3, 4; Arnold's
characterization of, 4; ancient criti-
cism of, 5; Wolf's theory regarding,
5; a host of destructive critics at-
tack, 6; conservative critics of, 6;
his claim to works that bear his name
defended, 7-17; how he discloses plot,
8-10; how he develops plot, 10, 11;
objections to sole authorship of, 12;
individual unity of each of the poems
of, 13-17; what follows denial of
unity of? 17, 18; various versions of
poems of, how explained, 19; was
there a written language in time
of, 21-28; proof of unity of, not de-
pendent on existence of written
characters, 28-31; public apprecia-
tive of the works of, 31-33; ideas of,
about God, 35-44; doctrine of, con-
cerning sin, 44-49; his doctrine of
atonement, 50-55; his ideas of future
life, 55-59; exhibits human life, 59-
62; influence of, 62, 63.

History and poetry compared, 163, 164.
Hubris, 199.

Hutton on realism, 162; on Goethe's
philosophy, 298; on Goethe's lyrics,

327.

"Iliad": similar to " Odyssey" in dis-
closure and development of plot, 7–
11; differs from "Odyssey," 12, 13;
its unity, 13-16.

"Idylls of the King": subject of, 477;
their story, 479–481.
Imagination: its place and function,
160-163; God's, 166; needful to sci-
ence and religion, 169; not fancy,
212; best poetical definition of, 361.
Immortality in Homer, 55; Goethe's
mature views of, 306, 307.
"Intimations of Immortality": dis-
cussion on, 353-360; its aim, 353; its
argument stated, 355; quotations
from, 356-360.

"Iphigenia," Goethe's, 313, 315.

Isaiah, differing style in, 232.

James, Henry, 388.

Lachmann, 6.

Lady of Tripoli," 408.

Lanier, Sidney, on individual freedom,
425.

"Laus Veneris," of Swinburne, 176.
"Lear, King," 167, 181, 186, 197, 199, 205,
Light, Dante's vocabulary of, 151.
Limbo, 127.

"Locksley Hall," 465, 470-472.
"Locksley Hall, Sixty Years After,"
415, 516.

Love: its medieval classification, 139;

Milton's, 239; a means of insight,
360; its permanent prominence, 475,
476.

"Lucknow, The Defense of," 473.
Lucretius, influence of, on Virgil, 75.
Ludlow Castle, 276, 277.
"Lycidas," 473, 492.

Lyric poetry, affected by aristocracies,
32.

Macaulay memory of, 30; best point
in his essay on "Milton," 248.
"Macbeth": discussed, 171, 187, 190;
and " Richard III." compared, 191;
and Lady Macbeth compared, 192,
193.

Man: and nature united, 336; the in-
tegral, 360; explains all that leads
up to him, 419.
"Mariana," 460.
Marlowe, 173, 176, 182.

"Martyr's Epitaph," 407.