John donne the critical heritage volume II

JOHN DONNE: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE

Volume II


THE CRITICAL HERITAGE SERIES
GENERAL EDITOR: B.C.SOUTHAM, M.A., B.LITT. (OXON.)
Formerly Department of English, Westfield College, University of London
The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of criticism on major
figures in literature. Each volume presents the contemporary responses to a
particular writer, enabling the student to follow the formation of critical attitudes
to the writer’s work and its place within a literary tradition.
The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of
criticism to fragments of contemporary opinion and little-published documentary
material, such as letters and diaries.
Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included in order to
demonstrate fluctuations in reputation following the writer’s death.
For a list of volumes in the series, see the end of the book.


JOHN DONNE
THE CRITICAL HERITAGE
Volume II

Edited by

PROFESSOR A.J.SMITH
Completed with introductory and editorial
material by
CATHERINE PHILLIPS

London and New York


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General Editor’s Preface

This second Donne volume covers a key period of fifty years—from the remarks
of Henry Morley in 1873 to Eliot’s review of the Love Poems in 1923—a halfcentury which saw the full emergence of Donne as a widely-known poet and,
moreover, a powerful influence upon the development of modern poetry.
What enabled this process was Grosart’s great edition of 1872–3. This firmly
established Donne’s standing among the great English poets, a place in the canon
consolidated by the editors and critics of the time, including the notable and
revealing contributions by Gosse, Chambers, Saintsbury, Dowden, Symons,
Grierson, Edward Thomas, Bridges, Yeats and Pound. Beyond their focus upon
Donne are the wider implications of the way in which literary tastes and canons
change. As the late Professor Smith commented in his Preface to the earlier
Donne volume (1975), ‘Donne has challenged his critics from the first, so that
the successive revaluations of him tend to mirror changing critical assumptions’
(p. xv). Of such challenge and change, this second volume provides the
documentation we need to trace and analyse these literary and cultural processes.
B.C.S.

Contents

PREFACE

xiii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

xiv

NOTE ON THE TEXT

xvi

INTRODUCTION

xvii

1

Henry Morley 1873

1

2

Rosaline Orme Masson 1876

2

3

William Minto 1880

4

4

John Henry Shorthouse 1881

14

5

Alice King 1881

15

6

David Masson 1881

16

7

John Churton Collins 1881

20

8

A.H.Welsh 1882

22

9

Edmund Gosse 1883

24

10

T.J.Backus 1884

25

11

George Edward Bateman Saintsbury 1887

27

12

Jakob von Schipper 1888/95

31

13

Margaret Woods 1889

32

14

Edward Dowden 1890

33

15

W.F.Collier 1891

50

16

Edmund Gosse 1891

51

17

Gamaliel Bradford 1892

53

18

Rudyard Kipling 1893

58

19

Edmund Gosse 1893

59


vii

20

Edmund Gosse 1894

63

21

Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers 1895

69

22

Charles Eliot Nor ton 1895

71

23

Felix E.Schelling 1895

77

24

Clyde Bowman Furst 1896/9

79

25

George Edward Bateman Saintsbury 1896

86

26

Oswald Crawfurd 1896

96

27

Anon., Dial 1896

97

28

Lionel Johnson 1896

98

29

Thomas Bird Mosher 1897

99

30

Frederick Ives Carpenter 1897

100

31

Augustus Jessopp 1897

102

32

Anon., Academy 1897

105

33

Anon., Quarterly Review 1897

107

34

Francis Thompson 1897–9

111

35

Henry Augustin Beers 1898

113

36

David Hannay 1898

115

37

George Edward Bateman Saintsbury 1898

116

38

Felix E.Schelling 1898

119

39

Edmund Gosse 1899

121

40

Anon., Athenaeum 1899

150

41

Richard Garnett 1899

153

42

Sir Leslie Stephen 1899

155

43

Arthur Symons 1899/1916

162

44

Francis Thompson 1899

170

45

Henry Augustin Beers 1899

173

46

Anon., Academy 1900

174

47

Reuben Post Halleck 1900

176

48

Anon., Nation 1900

177


viii

49

Anon., Church Quarterly Review 1900

180

50

H.M.Sanders 1900

181

51

J.W.Chadwick 1900

188

52

Anon., Quarterly Review 1900

194

53

Clarence Griffin Child 1900

201

54

Thomas Hardy 1900

202

55

Anon., Chambers’ Cyclopaedia of English Literature 1901

203

56

Anon., Quarterly Review 1902

205

57

Henry Charles Beeching 1902

206

58

William Vaughn Moody and Robert Morss Lovett 1902

208

59

Rudolf Richter 1902

210

60

Thomas Seccombe and John W.Allen 1903

211

61

A.H.Garstang 1903

215

62

Richard Garnett 1903

217

63

William John Courthope 1903

219

64

John Smith Harrison 1903

228

65

August WilhelmTrost 1904

229

66

Barrett Wendell 1904

230

67

Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1904

234

68

Frank Lusk Babbott 1905

235

69

Charles Eliot Norton 1905

237

70

Anon., Dial 1905

239

71

Geoffrey Langdon Keynes 1906

240

72

Henry Marvin Belden 1906

241

73

Martin Grove Brumbaugh 1906

243

74

Charles Crawford 1906

244

75

Wightman Fletcher Melton 1906

245

76

Herbert John Clifford Grierson 1906

248

77

Caroline Spurgeon 1907/13

253


ix

78

George Edward Bateman Saintsbury 1908

256

79

Alfred Horatio Upham 1908

260

80

George Charles Moore Smith 1908

263

81

Thomas Hardy 1908

264

82

Herbert John Clifford Grierson 1909

265

83

Janet Spens 1909

280

84

Phoebe Anne Beale Sheavyn 1909

286

85

William Macdonald Sinclair 1909

287

86

Felix E.Schelling 1910

289

87

Edward Thomas 1910/11

297

88

Edward Thomas 1912

300

89

Herbert John Clifford Grierson 1912

301

90

William Butler Yeats 1912

323

91

Edward Bliss Reed 1912

324

92

Andrew Lang 1912

330

93

Evelyn Mary Simpson (née Spearing) 1912

332

94

Anon., Nation 1913

333

95

Felix E.Schelling 1913

336

96

George Charles Moore Smith 1913

338

97

Rupert Brooke 1913

339

98

Walter de la Mare 1913

343

99

Anon., Spectator 1913

347

100 Ernest Percival Rhys 1913

351

101 Horace Ainsworth Eaton 1914

353

102 Sir Sidney Colvin 1914

369

10 3 Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers 1914

372


x

104 Robert Seymour Bridges 1914

373

10 5 Geoffrey Langdon Keynes 1914

374

106 David Macleane 1915

375

107 Ezra Pound 1916

377

108 Philipp Aronstein 1916

378

10 9 Sir William Watson 1917

379

110 Mary Paton Ramsay 1917

380

111 George Jackson 1917

381

11 2 François Joseph Picavet 1917

383

113 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch 1918/20

384

114 Philipp Aronstein 1919

387

11 5 Aldous Huxley 1919

389

116 William Butler Yeats 1919

390

117 Percy Herbert Osmond 1919

391

118 Logan Pearsall Smith 1919

393

11 9 Robert Seymour Bridges 1919

396

120 John Livingston Lowes 1919

397


xi

121 Thomas Stearns Eliot 1919

399

12 2 Raymond Macdonald Alden 1920

403

123 John Cann Bailey 1920

405

124 Robert Wilson Lynd 1920

407

125 Philipp Aronstein 1920

414

12 6 Louise Imogen Guiney 1920

415

127 Thomas Stearns Eliot 1919/20

417

128 Herbert John Clifford Grierson 1921

420

12 9 Thomas Stearns Eliot 1921

425

130 George Edward Bateman Saintsbury/Thomas Stearns Eliot

1921

430

131 Edmund Gosse 1921

432

13 2 Stuart Petre Brodie Mais 1921

434

133 John Sampson 1921

436

134 Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson 1921

437

135 Arthur Hobart Nethercot 1922

439

13 6 Arthur Hobart Nethercot 1922

440

137 William Butler Yeats 1922

442


xii

138 Robert Seymour Bridges 1922

443

13 9 Thomas Stearns Eliot 1923

444

APPENDIX A

PUBLICATION OF DONNE’S POEMS SINCE 1912

448

APPENDIX B

POEMS BY DONNE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN
SET TO MUSIC SINCE 1872

452

APPENDIX C

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

458

INDEX

462


Preface

This second volume of the reception of Donne was titled by the late Professor
A.J.Smith, ‘The Critical Rehabilitation of John Donne’. When his typescript was
given to me to complete it contained a plan of the book, most of the excerpts
from commentaries on Donne’s poems, and seven pages out of a projected total
of twenty-five pages allocated to an Introduction. Not having had the opportunity
of knowing Professor Smith and discussing the project with him, I decided
against trying to expand his Introduction and instead have made a summary of
the material he gathered. It is deeply regrettable that he was unable to complete his
contribution to our understanding of Donne. The excerpts he left make a
fascinating tale of changing ideas about the nature of poetry, about the effect of
social mores on a writer’s reputation, and I have appreciated the privilege of
working on it. I have expanded over half the headnotes, trying not to alter the
judgements that were explicit or implicit in Professor Smith’s wording. The
selections by Gosse (1891, 1921), Anon. The Academy (1897 and 1900), Anon.
The Dial (1905), H.J. C.Grierson (1909), J.L.Lowes (1919) and Louise I.Guiney
(1920) are mine. I am also responsible for the appendices and apologize for
omissions and errors in what was a lengthy treasure-hunt for bibliographical detail.
Catherine Phillips
Downing College
Cambridge

Acknowledgements

It has unfortunately not been possible to identify individuals whose assistance
the late Professor A.J.Smith would have wished to acknowledge. I am grateful to
Professor Howard Erskine-Hill for suggesting that I undertake the completion of
the book and to Dr Richard Luckett, Sandra Dawe of the Pendlebury Music
Library, and Julie Crawley, Music Librarian of the University of Exeter Library,
for help with the compilation of settings of Donne’s poems to music. I am much
obliged to the Oxford University Press for permission to reprint excerpts from:
(i) vol. ii of The Poems of John Donne edited by Herbert John Clifford Grierson,
Oxford University Press, 1912; (ii) Donne’s Sermons: Selected Passages, with
an Essay by Logan Pearsall Smith, Oxford University Press, 1919; (iii) a letter
by W.B.Yeats, edited by John Kelly et al., Oxford University Press, W.B.Yeat’s
poem, To a Young Beauty’ is reprinted with permission of A.P.Watt Ltd from
The Wild Swans at Coole and Simon & Schuster from The Poems of W.B.Yeats:
A New Edition, edited by Richard J. Finneran, copyright 1919 by Macmillan
Publishing company, renewed 1945 by Bertha Georgie Yeats. Thanks are given
to A.P.Watt Ltd for permission to include an extract from W.B.Yeat’s ‘The
Tragic Generation’ out of The Trembling of the Veil (1922), reprinted in
Autobiographies, Macmillan Press, 1961. Cambridge University Press kindly
gave permission for the inclusion of John Donne, Poetry and Prose’ by Herbert
John Clifford Grierson in vol. iv of The Cambridge History of English Literature,
Cambridge University Press, 1909. Excerpts from Selected Essays by T.S.Eliot,
copyright 1950 by Harcourt Brace & Company and renewed 1978 by Esmé
Valerie Eliot, are reprinted by permission of the publisher. The excerpt from The
Letters of T.S.Eliot, 1898–1922 by T.S.Eliot, copyright 1989 by SET Copyrights
Limited is reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Brace & Company. Grateful
acknowledgement is also made to Faber and Faber and the Estate of T.S.Eliot for
permission to include extracts by T.S.Eliot from Selected Essays, The Letters of

T.S.Eliot: vol. I 1898–1922 edited by Valerie Eliot, and from his articles in the
Athenaeum, The Nation and Athenaeum and A Garland for John Donne. We are
grateful to The Sewanee Review for permission to reprint Arthur H.Nethercot’s
article, ‘The Reputation of John Donne as Metrist’, which was first published in
the Sewanee Review vol. 30 no.4 Fall, 1922. Thanks are also owed to Yale
University Press, who published Edward Bliss Reed’s English Lyrical Poetry in


xv

1912. Considerable efforts were made to contact possible copyright holders
affected by the newly extended copyright law. The publishers would welcome
correspondence from any copyright holders they were unable to trace.
Catherine Phillips
Downing College
Cambridge


Note on the text

Documents follow the form of the original texts. Extracts are shown as such and
excisions noted. Quotations from Donne’s poems have sometimes been omitted,
and line-references supplied. Titles and lines of poems are given as they were
quoted, and regularized by the standard modern editions only in the editor’s
commentary. The editions of Donne used for this purpose are the following:
The Poems of John Donne, ed. H.J.C.Grierson, Oxford, 1912.
John Donne: The Divine Poems, ed. Helen Gardner, Oxford, 1952.
John Donne: The Elegies and the Songs and Sonnets, ed. Helen Gardner,
Oxford, 1965.
John Donne: The Satires, Epigrams and Verse Letters, ed. W.Milgate,

Oxford, 1967.
John Donne: The Complete English Poems, ed. A.J.Smith, Harmondsworth,
1971.


Introduction

Asked to name the most important person in the rehabilitation of John Donne’s
reputation, most people, would say, ‘T.S.Eliot’; a few would probably recall
H.J.C.Grierson’s work. This volume shows how changes in literary and social
values led symbiotically to the rediscovery of Donne and the preparation of
public taste to admire Modernist writers such as Eliot. Appreciation of Donne in
the eighteenth century was so slight that during the whole of it only three
editions of his verse were produced. The nineteenth century saw eight fairly
substantial collections and by 1872–3—the point at which this book opens—
there was sufficient interest to support annotated editions that filled two
volumes. Writers, such as Edmund Gosse and George Saintsbury, attempted to
construct from these collections biographical and stylistic analyses until, early in
the twentieth century, glaring anomalies in interpretation led to realization that
little more could be achieved without thorough re-examination of the text of the
poems. Grierson’s two-volume edition of 1912 was timely and immediately
hailed for its careful collation of the manuscripts and early printings. It laid the
foundations for other scholars, among them John Hayward, Helen Gardner,
Theodore Redpath, W.Milgate and A.J.Smith.1 Donne’s poetry attracted one of
early facsimile editions with a copy in 1969 of the first edition of 1633 (which
Grierson had used as his copy-text), followed in 1988 by facsimiles of the First
and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts. In the variorum format, however, only the
first volume of the projected University of Missouri Variorum Edition was
available by 1992.
Opinion of Donne has depended heavily on which and how many of his works

have been well known at any period. The popularity of the Songs and Sonnets
and a few of the Divine Poems has risen, until most people now base their view
of Donne almost exclusively on these, with a consequent skewing of
understanding that has been criticized with asperity by John Roberts.2 Musical
settings of Donne have followed a similar trajectory in popularity, and again the
range of poems favoured is narrow, though this is commonly the case in
composers’ choice of literary texts. Appendix B shows that about a hundred52;
Lynd on 426, 427–8;
Mais on 451;
Norton on 76;
Osmond on 408;
Quiller-Couch on 403–4;
Rhys on 370;
Saintsbury on 98, 99, 270;
Sanders on 192;
Schelling on 310–11;
Spurgeon on 267;
Symons on 176–7;
Thomas on 314–15;
E.N.S. Thompson on 453
Edinburgh Review 422
Egerton, Lady 86
Egerton, Sir Thomas 167, 278, 288, 322,
338
Eggink, Clara 464
egoism see subjectivity and egoism
Eldridge, Guy Henry 470
Eleanora (Dryden) 69, 74, 154
Elegies: 1 280, 395;
2 277, 280; 3

see‘Change’; 4 280; 5 280, 395, 315; 6
see Sir Nicholas Smith; 7
see ‘Nature’s Lay Idiot’;8
see ‘Comparison’; 9
see ‘Autumnal’; 10 128;12
see ‘Come, Fates, I fear you not’;
‘His Parting’; 16 336;
see also ‘On His Mistress’;
‘To make the doubt clear’; 17
see ‘By our first strange and fatal
interview’; 18 and 19 314, 427;
Anon, on 110, 111, 158, 368;
Beeching on 218;
Bradford on 55;
Chadwick on 200;
Courthope on 233;

De la Mare on 364;
Dowden on 38, 40–1, 47–8;
Eaton on 383;
Eliot on 440;
Furst on 82;
Gosse on xxviii, 66–7, 68, 127–9, 144–
5;
Grierson on xxxi, 260, 278, 280, 283–
7, 319–20, 324, 331–4, 336, 338;
Hardy on 277;
Jessopp on 107;
Lang on 351;
Lynd on 424, 425–6;

Mais on 451;
David Masson on 18;
music for 469;
Norton on 77;
Richter on 221;
Roberts on xxxix;
Saintsbury on 28–9, 91, 95, 118, 268;
Stephen on 167;
Thomas on 314–15;
E.N.S. Thompson on 453;
Upham on 274;
see also ‘Funeral Elegies’
Elegy (Gray) 65, 445
‘Elegy on the Lady Markham’ see
Markham, Lady
‘Elegy upon…Prince Henry’ see Henry,
Prince
Eliot, Thomas Stearns xxxv–vii, xxxviii–
ix, xli, 415–19, 434–6, 442–8, 456, 458–
62
Elizabeth, Princess:
marriage see ‘Epithalamion on St
Valentine’s Day’
Elizabethan style:
Anon, on 216–17, 367;
Chambers on 70–1;
Collins on 20–1;
Dowden on 33;
Eliot on 444;
Gosse on 62–3, 69, 131, 143, 147–8;

Grierson on 259–60, 261, 293, 438;
Jessopp on 105;
David Masson on xix, 16–18;
Minto on xvii, 4–6;
Norton on 72–3, 249;


INDEX 471

Pearsall Smith on 412;
Schelling on 78–9, 121;
Seccombe and Allen on 222, 224;
Francis Thompson on 181, 182;
see also in particular Shakespeare;
Spenser
ellipsis 114
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 55, 200, 205
Empson, William xxxi, xli
Endymion (Keats) 111, 367
‘Enneads’ (Plotinus) 267
Epicedes (poems for Lord Hamilton) 107,
111, 166, 260, 263, 320, 326, 349–50
Epicurus 437
Epigrams (Donne) 18, 83, 280
Epigrams (Jonson) 263
Epistles see Verse Letters
Epithalamia:
Anon, on 216;
Chadwick on 204;
Furst on 88;

Gosse on 65–6, 138;
Grierson on 260, 263, 280, 338;
Jessopp on 107;
Lang on 351;
David Masson on 18;
Saintsbury on 95;
Sinclair on 303;
Thomas on 315;
Francis Thompson on 182–3
‘Epithalamion made at Lincoln’s Inn’ 315
‘Epithalamion on St Valentine’s Day’ 66,
107, 138, 183, 204
‘Erotion’ 355
Erskine-Hill, Howard xxvi, xli
‘Es tu brune ou est tu blonde’ (Verlaine)
127
Essays in Divinity 105, 292
Essex, 3rd Earl of 41, 334
Essex Rich, Mistress:
letter to 77, 84, 137
‘Euphormio’ (Barclay) 209
Euphuism 207–11, 260;
see also metaphysical
Euripides 300
Ewes, Sir Symonds d’ xxx, 211
‘Exequy’ (King) 151

‘Expiration, The’ 85, 108, 182, 277, 287,
336, 469
‘Expostulation, The’ 315

‘Extasie’ see ‘Ecstasy’
Faerie Queene, The (Spenser) 33, 334, 367
failure, Donne seen as xviii, 13, 429
‘Fair, great and good’ 264
Fane, Mildmay 69
Fausset, Hugh 1’Anson 463, 464
feelings see hate-poems;
love;
passion
Feltham, Owen 69
Ferrabosco, Alfonso 469, 470, 471, 472
Ferrar, Nicholas 17
‘Fever, A’ 11, 53, 126, 241, 349–50, 360,
364, 395
Fine, Vivian 468, 473
Finney, Ross Lee 471, 473
First Anniversary, The (An Anatomy of the
World) 31, 67, 365;
Anon, on 110, 111, 185, 210, 215, 369;
Aronstein on 397;
Babbott on 248;
Beeching on 218;
Bradford on 55;
Chadwick on 203;
Courthope on 135, 234, 236, 237;
Crawford on 255;
De la Mare on 364;
Dowden on xxiii;
Furst on xxvii, 86–7;
Gosse on xxix, 135–6;

Grierson on 260, 262, 279, 289, 290,
327;
Harrison on 241;
Jessopp on 106;
Mais on 451;
Rosaline Masson on 2;
Melton on 257;
Morley on 1;
Norton on 77;
Osmond on 409;
Roberts on xxix;
Saintsbury on xxi–iii, xxvii, 28, 94,
118, 268, 299;


472 INDEX

Sanders on 195;
Schelling on 309, 357;
Seccombe and Allen on 224;
Sheavyn on 302;
Spens on 295–7, 299, 301;
Spurgeon on 266;
Stephen on 167–8;
Thomas on 315;
E.N.S. Thompson on 454;
Upham on 274
Flanagan, William 471, 472
Flatman, Thomas 152–3
‘Flea, The’:

Anon, on 355;
Beers on 115;
Gosse on 68, 127;
Lang on 351;
Lowes on 414–15;
David Masson on 19;
Morley on 1;
music for 469;
Thomas on 316;
Upham on 274;
Welsh on xx–xxi, 23
Fletcher, Giles 57, 131, 231, 340
Fletcher, Phineas 58, 231
‘For Godsake hold your tongue’ see
‘Canonization, The’
Forest (Jonson) 263
Fortnightly Review (journal) xxiii, 31, 170,
422
‘Found something like a hear’ see ‘Legacie,
The’
Fowkes, Charles 466
Freistat, Neil xlii
friendship:
Dowden on 33;
Grierson on 325–6;
letters see Verse Letters’, Minto on
xviii;
Sanders on 197;
spiritual see platonic love;
see also love

frustrated love 426
Fuller, Thomas 183
‘Funeral, The’:
Anon, on 185;
Chadwick on 201;

De la Mare on 364;
Dowden on 46;
Eliot on 459;
Furst on 86;
Grierson on 263, 286, 326;
Lang on 351;
Lynd on 427;
Minto on xvii, 9;
Saintsbury on 271
‘Funeral Elegies’:
Anon, on 111, 185–6;
Bridges on 414;
Furst on 87–8;
Gosse on 66–7, 138–9;
Grierson on 280, 289;
Norton on 77;
Saintsbury on 96;
Schelling on 309–10;
Upham on 274–5;
see also ‘Funeral’
Furst, Clyde Bowman xxviii, 80–8, 213–14
Fusner, Henry 470
Galileo 134, 168, 208, 231, 437
Gardner, Helen xv, 464, 465

Garnett, Richard xxx, 159–61, 227–9
Garrod, H.W. 464
Garstang, A.H. 226–7
Gaspary, Adolf 261
Gaster, Clare 466
Gatti, Alessandro 349
genius, Donne as 13
Gill, Eric 464
Gill, Richard 466
‘Go, and Catch a Falling Star’:
Courthope on 234;
Eaton on 384;
Furst on 83;
Gosse on 69, 156;
Grierson on 320;
Lynd on 425;
music for 156, 472;
Reed on 345;
Saintsbury on 97, 270;
Sanders on 192;
Schelling on 306;
Sinclair on 303;


INDEX 473

Thomas on 314
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 160, 405
Goldsmith, Sir Oliver 445
Góngora Y Argote, Luis de xxx;

Anon, on 209;
Beers on 183;
Garnett on 229;
Gosse on 150;
Grierson on 288;
Moody and Lovett on 220;
Schelling on 310;
Upham on 272
‘Good Friday, 1613:
Riding Westward’ 132–3, 341
‘Good Morrow, The’:
Anon, on 110;
Brooke on 361;
Chadwick on 201;
De la Mare on 364;
Dowden on 39;
Eaton on 376, 379, 387;
Gosse on 68, 126;
music for 469;
Reed on 346;
Saintsbury on 97, 270;
Sanders on 195;
Seccombe and Allen on 223;
Sinclair on 303;
Thomas on 316;
E.N.S.Thompson on 453
Goodyere, Sir Henry 34, 37, 55, 65, 132,
279;
letters to 96, 238, 321, 322–3
Gordon, George Stuart xxxv–vi

Gosse, Edmund xxi, xxv–vi, xxviii–xxxi,
xxxviii, xli, 24, 50–1, 58–69, 122–56,
449–50;
Anon, on 187–90, 206, 207, 210–11,
212, 214–15;
Aronstein on 405, 431;
Beeching on 218;
Belden on 253;
Chadwick on 198, 200–3, 205;
Eliot on 461;
Garnett on 227;
Gartstang on 227;
Grierson on 260, 291, 332, 334, 341;
Hardy on 276–7;

Jackson on 400;
Keynes on 252;
Lang on 351;
Lynd on 426;
Reed on 344, 347;
Sanders on 191;
Schelling on 305;
Sinclair on 303, 304;
Smith on 358;
Spens on 295;
Thomas on 314, 316;
Francis Thompson on 180–3
Graeffe, A.Didier 470
Gray, Thomas 254, 445
‘Great Destiny the Commissary of God’

112
Greek see classical writers
Greene, Robert 124, 253
Greville, Sir Fulke xx, 21, 22, 80, 243,
312, 358, 440
Grierson, Herbert John Clifford xvi, xxxi–
iv, xxxvi–vii, 259–64, 277–94, 317–43,
437–42;
Brooke on 359;
Chambers on 393;
dates of publications of 463, 466;
De la Mare on 363;
definition of poetry xxxiv;
Gosse on 450;
Nethercot on 456;
Watson on 397
Grosart xvi, 2, 53
Grave, The 284
Guiney, Louise Imogen 432–4
Guinicelli, Guido 261, 331, 445
Gwynn, Stephen Lucius 246–7
Habington, William 17, 151
Haffenden, John xli
‘Hail Bishop Valentine’ 303
Hakluyt, Richard 419
Hall, Joseph xxvi, xxxii;
Bradford on 54;
Gosse on 64, 122–3;
Grierson on 259, 280–1, 282;
Minto on 7;

Saintsbury on 26, 29, 268;


474 INDEX

Stephen on 163;
Francis Thompson on 114
Hallam, Henry 209, 303
Halleck, Reuben Post 186
Hamilton, Iain 471
Hamilton, Marquis:
poem to see Epicedes
Hamilton, Robin 466
Hamlet (Shakespeare) 7, 168, 168, 186,
354, 354, 364, 439, 448
Hannay, David 116–17
Hardy, Thomas 214, 276–7, 456
Harington, Sir John 139
Har(r)ington, Lord:
‘Obsequies’ to 77, 88, 111, 138–9, 166,
290, 326
Harrison, John Smith 240–1
harshness see roughness
Harvey, William 208
hate-poems and disgust following passion
xxxiv, 127, 149, 190, 201;
poems claimed to be see ‘Apparition’,
‘Curse’, ‘Funeral’, ‘Love’s Deity’,
‘Message’, ‘Prohibition’, Symons on
175–6;

see also cynicism and disillusion
Hawkins, A.Desmond 464
Hayward, John xv, 463, 464
Hazlitt, William 207
Heath, Fenno 469
Heine, Heinrich 460
Henley, W.E. 57
Henry, Prince:
elegy on 77, 107, 204, 243, 279, 290
Herbert, Lord Edward xx, xxiii, xxxvii, 14,
18, 444;
Collins on 20, 21–2;
Furst on 81;
Gosse on 132–3, 151;
Norton on 73
Herbert, George xxxvii;
Alden on 421;
Anon, on 206, 213;
Beers on 116, 183;
Bradford on 57;
Carpenter on 104;
Courthope on 231;
Dowden on 36;

Eliot on 446;
Gosse on 63, 131, 151;
Grierson on 328, 340, 441–2;
Guiney on 432–3;
Jackson on 399;
Jessopp on 106;

David Masson on 17;
Schelling on 311–12;
Seccombe and Allen on 224, 225;
Upham on 275;
Wendell on 243
Herbert, Lady Magdalen:
letters and poems to 132–3, 277, 284,
286, 316, 323–4, 339, 427;
poems believed to be directed to see
‘Autumnal’;
‘Blossom’;
‘Funeral’;
‘Primrose’;
‘Relic’
Herbert, Sir Edward, of Cherbury: letter to
84, 321
Hero and Leander (Marlowe) xxxii, 338
‘Heroical Epistle: Soppho to Philaenis’ 354
Heroicall Epistles (Drayton) 281
Herrick, Robert:
Anon, on 212, 213;
Courthope on 231;
De la Mare on 364;
Garstang on 227;
Gosse on 131, 143;
Gwynn on 246;
Sanders on 197–8;
Symons on 179;
Welsh on 23
hetereogenous ideas combined see wit,

intellectualism and conceits
Heywood, Elizabeth 433
Hillyer, Robert Silliman 464
Hilton, John 469, 470, 471, 472
‘His Parting From Her’ 214, 334, 426
‘His Picture’ 334
‘His Winding Sheet’ (Herrick) 246
Hoiby,Lee 471, 472
Holy Sonnets see Divine Poems and Holy
Sonnets
Homer 239


INDEX 475

‘Honour is so sublime perfection’ (letter to
Countess of Bedford) 77, 84
Hooker, Richard 119–20, 419
Hopkins, Gerard Manley xxxiii, xlii
Horace 29, 30, 92, 254, 278, 280, 281–2,
283, 351
Hoskins, John 284;
song ascribed to see ‘Absence’
‘How happy were our sires in ancient
times’ see
Hudibras (Butler) 367
Hume, David xvi, xli, 75
humour xxxiv, 9, 54, 123, 360, 427;
lack of 377
Humphrey, Pelham 469–70

Huntingdon, Elizabeth, Countess of:
letters to 84, 96, 234, 267;
see also ‘Dream’;
‘Love’s Growth’;
‘Man to God’s image’;
‘That unripe side’
Huxley, Aldous 406–7
Huyghens, Christiaan 322
Hyde, Edward (later Earl of Clarendon) 51
‘Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s Last
Going into Germany’ 56, 113, 235, 291,
409, 434;
music for 469
‘Hymn to God the Father, A’:
Chadwick on 204–5;
Furst on 88;
Grierson on xxxiv, 291,;
Jackson on 358;
Jessopp on 107;
Mosher on 102;
music for 469–70;
Osmond on 409;
Sanders on 193
‘Hymn to God my God, in My Sickness’
107, 141–2, 205, 291, 358, 400
Hymn to Saint Teresa (Crashaw) 367
‘Hymn to the Saints and to Marquis
Hamilton’ see Epicedes
hyperbole:
Anon, on 369;

Beers on 116;
Chadwick on 200;
Courthope on 230;

Gosse on 135, 150;
Grierson on 290, 326, 440;
Samuel Johnson on 3;
Seccombe and Allen on 224;
Shakespeare on 5;
Stephen on 167;
Taine on 4, 11;
see also wit, intellectualism and
conceits
Hyperion (Keats) 445
‘I am re-begot’ see ‘Nocturnal upon
S.Lucy’s Day’
‘I Have Done One Braver Thing’ xxiv, 44
‘I must confess it could not choose but be’
see ‘Dream, The’
‘I wonder by my troth what thou and I’ see
‘Good Morrow‘
Ibam forte via sacra (Horace) 283
‘Idea, The’ (Herbert) 21
‘If her disdain least change in you can
move’ (Pembroke and Ruddier) 284
Ignatius his Conclave 292
illicit love:
Anon, on 158, 188;
Chadwick on 201;
Gosse on xxviii, 126–7;

David Masson on xix, 17;
Stephen on 164–5;
see also licentious
imagination and originality:
Anon on 157;
Bradford on 55;
Brooke on 361;
Furst on 85;
Garstang on 226;
Norton on 73, 249;
Reed on 349;
Saintsbury on xxvii, 27–8, 95, 119;
Schelling on 309–10;
see also wit, intellectualism and
conceits
immorality see licentious
Impertinent, The (Pope’s paraphrase) 155
impressionism 109–13
impropriety see licentious


476 INDEX

In Memoriam (Tennyson) xxiii, 36, 43,
49n, 327–8
‘In what torn ship so ever I embark’
inconstancy of women 127, 234–5, 284;
see also ‘Woman’s Constancy’
Independent (journal, New York) 50
‘Indifferent, The’:

Courthope on 233;
Gosse on 127;
Grierson on 284, 320;
Reed on 347;
Saintsbury on 97;
Sanders on 192;
Seccombe and Allen on 223;
Smith on 277
influence of Donne:
Anon, on 367;
Eliot on 446;
Gosse on 145–7, 150–3;
Saintsbury on xxiii, 27;
see also metaphysical;
schools
intellectualism see wit, intellectualism and
conceits
‘Isles of Greece, The’ 460
Italian and Spanish style, xxxi;
Anon, on 209;
Chadwick on 199;
Eliot on 445, 448;
Garnett on 229;
Gosse on 130, 133, 134, 146, 150, 152;
Grierson on xxxi, 259, 261–3, 278,
285, 290, 325, 329, 330, 331, 333, 338,
438;
Moody and Lovett on 220;
Nethercot on 455;
Norton on 73;

Quiller-Couch on 404;
Schelling on 79;
Upham on 272;
Wendell on 242
Jackson, George 399–400
Jacobean style:
Anon, on 184, 207, 212;
Chambers on 70–1;
Colvin on 390;

Eliot on 444;
Gosse on xxv, xxix, 62–9, 147;
Grierson on 261;
David Masson on xix;
Saintsbury on xxvii;
Schelling on 306–7
Jacquot, Jean 468, 469, 470, 471, 472
James I, King 7, 8, 32, 50, 160, 209, 210,
260, 419
Jealousy’ 426
Jeate Ringe Sente, A’ 85
Jenni, Donald 469
‘Jeremiah’ 40, 96
Jessopp, Augustus 39, 60, 105–7, 108, 156,
162, 163, 206
John of the Cross, Saint 152
Johnson, Lionel 101
Johnson, Samuel xvi, xvii–viii, xx;
Alden on 420;
Anon, on 208, 211, 368;

Aronstein on 405;
Backus on 25;
Beers on 183;
Belden on 253;
Bradford on 52, 53, 56;
Brooke on 359;
Brumbaugh on 254;
Carpenter on 103;
Collins on 20;
Courthope on 229–30, 239;
De la Mare on 364;
Eliot on 443–4, 445, 447;
Gosse on 150, 153;
Grierson on 261, 288, 318, 329;
Halleck on 186;
David Masson on 16, 18;
Melton on 257;
Minto on xvii–iii, 3–4, 6, 9, 10, 11;
Nethercot on 455;
Norton on 75;
Osmond on 409;
Reed on 350;
Saintsbury on 91, 118, 120;
Sanders on 196;
Schelling on 78, 307;
Seccombe and Allen on 224;
Stephen on 165;
Wendell on 244

INDEX 477

Jones, Llewellyn 456
Jonson, Ben xxi, xxiii, xxv, xxxii, xxxv–
vii, xlii;
Anon, on 187, 214, 216–17;
Bridges on 394;
Brooke on 359;
Chadwick on 203;
Courthope on 231, 234, 239;
De la Mare on 362–3;
Eaton on 371;
Eliot on 435;
Garstang on 226;
Gosse on 59, 61, 65, 125, 131, 143,
145, 152;
Grierson on 259–64 passim, 278, 281,
282, 284, 288, 290, 294, 321, 322, 329,
340;
Gwynn on 246;
Harrison on 241;
Huxley on 407;
letter to 193;
Lynd on 424, 427;
Melton on 256;
Norton on 72, 76, 249;
Reed on 346, 347;
Saintsbury on 26, 27, 29, 95, 117, 267,
271;
Sanders on 193, 196, 197;

Schelling on 79, 80, 120, 121, 122,
308, 312, 313, 358;
Stephen on 164, 167, 168;
Wendell on 242, 243, 244, 245, 246
Joubert, John 470, 472
joy 296–7, 335–7, 339
Joyce, James 461
Juvenal 29, 280, 282, 378
Keats, John:
Anon, on 109, 110, 111;
Babbott on 248;
De la Mare on 363;
Eliot on 435;
Reed on 345;
Schelling on 121;
Thomas on 316
Kelly, Bryan 467, 472
Kepler, Johann 168

Kermode, Frank 465
Keynes, Geoffrey Langdon 251–2, 394
Keynes, John Maynard 251
‘Kind pity checks my spleen’ 278
King, Alice 15
King, Bishop Henry xxxvii;
Eliot on 442, 445, 446;
Furst on 81;
Gosse on 51, 150–1;
Upham on 275
Kipling, Rudyard 57–8, 149

Krenek, Ernst 469, 470, 471
La Fontaine, Jean de 212
Laforgue, Jules 446
Lamb, Charles 127, 162, 167, 183, 353
Lamentations of jeremy 279, 291
Landor, Walter Savage 79, 196, 312, 322,
407
Lang, Andrew 350–1
Langland, William 114, 131
Larson, Deborah Aldrich xli, 474
‘Last Ride Together, The’ 330
later years:
Anon, on 186;
Beeching on 218–19;
Gosse on 139–42;
Jessop on 106–7;
last days of life 140, 182;
see also ‘Hymn to God my God’;
portrait;
Lynd on 430–1;
Minto on 7–8;
Saintsbury on xxvii–viii;
Schelling on 305;
Symons on 172;
Latimer, Hugh xxxi, xxxix, 416, 417, 418
Latin see classical writers
Law, William 265
Le Franc de Pompignan 96
learning see wit, intellectualism and
conceits

Lecture upon the Shadow, A 39–40, 385,
421
‘Legacy, The’ 85, 97, 127, 177, 192, 364
LeGallienne, Dorian 467, 468, 469, 470
Lemprière,John 109