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misery, and the life-long blessing of her equally nobleminded brother.

328 cclxxxix This poem has an exaltation and a glory, joined with an exquisiteness of expression, which place it in the highest rank among the many masterpieces of its illustrious Author.

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ccc interlunar swoon: interval of the moon's invisibility. ccciv Calpe: Gibraltar. Lofoden: the Maelstrom whirlpool off the N.W. coast of Norway.

cccv This lovely poem refers here and there to a ballad by Hamilton on the subject better treated in 163 and 164.

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Arcturi: seemingly used for northern stars. And wild roses, &c. Our language has perhaps no line modulated with more subtle sweetness.

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Coleridge describes this poem as the fragment of a dream-vision, perhaps, an opium-dream?-which composed itself in his mind when fallen asleep after reading a few lines about 'the Khan Kubla' in Purchas' Pilgrimage.

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Pluto.

Ceres' daughter: Proserpine. God of Torment:

370 cccxxi The leading idea of this beautiful description of a day's landscape in Italy appears to be-On the voyage of life are many moments of pleasure, given by the sight of Nature, who has power to heal even the worldliness and the uncharity of man.

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1. 23 Amphitrite was daughter to Ocean.

cccxxii 1. 21 Maenad: a frenzied Nymph, attendant on Dionysos in the Greek mythology. May we not call this the most vivid, sustained, and impassioned amongst all Shelley's magical personifications of Nature?

1. 5 Plants under water sympathize with the seasons of the land, and hence with the winds which affect them.

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cccxxiii Written soon after the death, by shipwreck, of
Wordsworth's brother John. This poem may be pro-
fitably compared with Shelley's following it.
is the most complete expression of the innermost spirit
of his art given by these great Poets:-of that Idea
which, as in the case of the true Painter, (to quote the
words of Reynolds,) subsists only in the mind: The
sight never beheld it, nor has the hand expressed it:
it is an idea residing in the breast of the artist, which
he is always labouring to impart, and which he dies
at last without imparting.'

the Kind: the human race.

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the Royal Saint: Henry VI.

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cccxxviii st. 4 this folk: its has been here plausibly but,
perhaps, unnecessarily, conjectured.-Every one knows
the general story of the Italian Renaissance, of the
Revival of Letters. From Petrarch's day to our own,
that ancient world has renewed its youth: Poets and
artists, students and thinkers, have yielded themselves
wholly to its fascination, and deeply penetrated its
spirit. Yet perhaps no one more truly has vivified,
whilst idealizing, the picture of Greek country life in
the fancied Golden Age, than Keats in these lovely (if
somewhat unequally executed) stanzas: his quick
imagination, by a kind of 'natural magic,' more than
supplying the scholarship which his youth had no
opportunity of gaining.

155 cxxxiv These stanzas are by Richard Verstegan (c. 1635), a poet and antiquarian, published in his rare Odes (1601), under the title Our Blessed Ladies Lullaby, and reprinted by Mr. Orby Shipley in his beautiful Carmina Mariana (1893). The four stanzas here given form the opening of a hymn of twenty-four.

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BYRON, G. G. N. (continued).
Elegy on Thyrza

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On the Castle of Chillon

Youth and Age

Elegy

CAMPBELL, Thomas (1777-1844).

Lord Ullin's Daughter

To the Evening Star

Earl March look'd on his dying child

Ye Mariners of England

Battle of the Baltic

Hohenlinden

The Beech Tree's Petition

Ode to Winter

Song to the Evening Star
The Soldier's Dream

The River of Life

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