Fantasy, distinguished from imagination, 236.
"Farewell to Nancy," Burns, quoted, 265.
Fashion, effect of, 39; the temporary must be distinguished from the lasting, 166; poetic style of Queen Anne's time, 213, 214.
Faust, Goethe, Snider on, 95; subjectivity of, 137; and see 104, 119, 137, 238, 269.
Faustus, Marlowe, 238.
Feeling, classical expressions of, 83 et seq.; of Wordsworth, 263, 264; its quality illustrated, 264, 265; religious, national, etc., 266; more accurate than thought, 286; and see 147; also Passion.
"Feigned History," as a generic term for all imaginative literature, 56, 57.
Felicia, Fanny Murfree, 208, 209.
Female Poets, Sappho, 88; Mrs. Browning, 88, 128, 266; subjectivity of, 127; Miss Lazarus, 266; Miss Rossetti, 269.
Femininity, self-expression the minor key of song, 127.
Ferishtah's Fancies, Browning, 225.
Fiction, prose (including The Novel, Prose Romance, etc.), letter from A. S. Hardy, 36; distinguished from the poetry under consideration, 56-59; as "Feigned History," 56; invention as to plot, narrative, characterization, 57; must not be rhythmical, 57-59; inborn gift of the great novelists and romancers, 60; Howells', ib.; as the principal outcome of recent dramatic and creative faculties, 137, 138; great modern novels and novelists, 137; the chief literary distinction of the century, 138; functions of the novelist, 237; examples of reserved power, 273.
Fielding, 60.
Fine Arts. See Arts, The Fine.
Finish. See Technique.
Firdusi, 111.
"Fitness of Things, The," 45, 156.
Fitzgerald, E., 82, 217.
Flavor, natural, 180.
Fletcher, J., 171.
"Flood of Years, The," Bryant, 252.
Folk Songs, 176; of Ireland and Scotland, 180; and see Ballads.
Force, that of poetry, 3,—not exerted by mere intellect and culture, 60; ethical, 217; as the vital spark, 259; and see Introduction.
Ford, John, 108.
"Forgiveness, A," Browning, 109.
Form, greatness of the dramatic, 107; English measures, 215; and see Construction and Technique.
Forman, H. Buxton, a phrase of, 52.
Formlessness of outline, its poetic effect, 246.
Foscolo, 133.
Fourier, C., 9.
Freedom of the poet's field, 220.
