CHAPTER V.

REVIVALS AND COMMENCEMENTS.

Limitations of this chapter 587 Spain 588 Italy 588 De Sanctis 589 Character of his work 590 Switzerland 591 Vinet 592 Sainte-Beuve on him 592

His criticism of Chateaubriand and Hugo 593 His general quality 593 Amiel: great interest of his critical impressions 594 Examples thereof 595 The pity of it 597

CONCLUSION.

§ I. THE PRESENT STATE OF CRITICISM 603

§ II. THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER 610

APPENDIX I.

THE OXFORD CHAIR OF POETRY.

The holders 615 Eighteenth-century minors 616 Lowth 617 Hurdis 617 The rally: Copleston 618 Conybeare 620 Milman 620 Keble 621

The _Occasional_ [English] Papers 622 The _Prælections_ 622 Garbett 625 Claughton 626 Doyle 626 Shairp 627 Palgrave 628 _Salutantur vivi_ 629

APPENDIX II.

AMERICAN CRITICISM.

An attempt in outline only 630 Its difficulties 631 The early stages 631 The origins and pioneers 632 Ticknor 632 Longfellow 633 Emerson 633 Poe 634 Lowell: his general position 636 _Among my Books_ 637 _My Study Windows_ 637

_Essays on the English Poets_ 638

Last Essays 639

O. W. Holmes 639

The whole duty of critics stated by him _in alia materia_ 639

Whitman and the “Democratic” ideal 640

Margaret Fuller 641

Ripley 642

Whipple 642

Lanier 643

INDEX 647

BOOK VII

THE DISSOLVENTS OF NEO-CLASSICISM

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“_May there not be something in the Gothic Romance peculiarly suited to the views of a genius and to the ends of poetry? And may not the philosophic moderns have gone too far in their perpetual ridicule and contempt of it?_”—HURD.

“_Quelquefois un besoin de philosopher gâte tout._”—JOUBERT.