The cambridge companion to british roman 364

history, Romantic period 4
Johnson’s views 126
as literature 122, 123
Mackenzie’s views 125
and poetry 7, 118
popularity 123
reviewing of 125, 127, 128
sentimental novels, inclusion of verse 129–32
treated as poetry 120
Wordsworth’s dislike of 120

See also poetry; prose
odes 26–8

Odes to the Pillory 15
O’Donnell, Brennan, on Wordsworth’s views of meter 110
Old Testament, as hallmark of standard English 80
Old Tom of Oxford 15, 29
Ong, Walter J. 247, 253
Opie, Amelia xvi, 21, 118, 119

Oracle and Public Advertiser 224
“oral literature” 253