Quality, The Fine Arts, Composite Art, etc.
Arte of English Poesie, The, Puttenham, 198.
Artificiality, 48, 177.
Artisanship, 226.
Artistic Dissatisfaction, 286.
Artistic Quality, heightened by passion, 128; extreme recent finish, 129, 130; often in excess of originality, 131; Swinburne's, 132.
Art Life, the, studio and table talk, 12; and see 221-223.
Art School, the, recent characteristics of, 130, 131; of the Nineteenth Century, 173; the minor, 235.
Arts, the fine, their practical value, 14; consensus of, 15; music, painting, etc., as compared with poetry, 63-72; Lessing's canon, 66; the "speechless" arts normally objective, 80; must express the beautiful, 147; illustrative of poetry, 155; a Japanese at the Art Students' League, 165; and see Architecture, Music, Painting, Sculpture.
Aryan Literature, 87.
Association, 250.
"Astrophel," Spenser, 90.
Atalanta in Calydon, Swinburne, 132.
Auerbach, B., novelist, 137.
"Auld Lang Syne," Burns, 264.
"Auld Robin Gray," Lady Barnard, 194.
Aurora Leigh, Mrs. Browning, 237.
Ausonius, 169.
Austen, Jane, novelist, 138.
Bacon, on Poetry, 23; quoted, 203; and see 57.
Balder Dead, Arnold, 134, 135.
Ballads, early English, 94; Thackeray's, 215; and see 194.
Balzac, quoted, 34; and see 137, 283.
Banville, Th. de, 35, 131, 158.
Barnard, Lady, quoted, 194.
Bascom, J., critic, 20.
"Battle Hymn of the Republic," Mrs. Howe, 267.
Baudelaire, 133.
Beauty, proclaimed the sole end of Poetry, by Schlegel and Poe, 26; poetry as an expression of, 46-48; its arbiter, Taste, 47; false standards of, 48; considered as an element in poetry and cognate arts, 147-185; its expression an indispensable function, 147; recurrent denials of its indispensability, 147 et seq.; these are merely revolts against hackneyed standards, 148, 150, 151, 158; its immortal changefulness, 148; whether it is a chimera, 148, 152-158; this theory purely Berkeleian, and repulsive to the artistic instinct, 149, 155; the "transcendental" contempt for, 149; Emerson's recognition of, 149; impressionism merely a fresh search for, 150; exists in some guise in every lasting work of art, 151; the new Æsthetics,
