needed, 211; of wisdom, the higher philosophical, 211-217; elements of humor in, 215; true, yet free, 219, 220; lack of imagination and passion in recent, 225-227; other modern traits of, 225, 226; the imaginative element in, 225-258; "spasmodic," 235; obscurity, ib.; its peopled wonderland, 238; suggestive, 239; diction of, 240 et seq.; supernaturalism in, 236, 243; of the Vague, 246; of Fancy, 247; English, 249; "elemental," 250-254; passion its incentive, 257; as product of "the faculty divine," 259-297; element of Passion in, 260-276; Wordsworth's statement of, 263; of Scotland, 264; of English sentiment, 265,—of American, 267, 268; of intense emotions and impassioned types, 270 et seq.; true naturalism of, 273; the absolutely dramatic, 274; of heroic crises, 276, 288; Genius, 277-285; Insight, Inspiration, etc., 285-288; of Prophecy, 287; Faith indispensable to, 288-294; of the Church Liturgy, 291 et seq.; future of, 296; concerning the study of, 296, 297; its present dissemination, 297; and see Introduction, passim, also Analytic Poetry, Bible, Christendom, Christianity, Descriptive Poetry, Dramatic Poetry, Elegiac Poetry, Epic Poetry, Gnomic Poetry, Heroic Poetry, Idyllic Poetry, Lyrical Poetry, Narrative Poetry, Norse Poetry, Orientalism, Reflective Poetry, Society-Verse, etc.
Poets of America, by the author of this volume: references to, 35, 101, 137, 160, 190, 211, 226, 246, 252, 268.
Ποιητής, Aristotle on, 17.
Pope, Byron on, 19; question of his genius, 213-215; his didacticism, 213; was he a poet? ib.; compared with modern leaders, 215; and see 116, 172.
Prayer Book, the Episcopal. See The Church Liturgy.
Pre-Raphaelitism, concurrent in various arts, 50; and see 158, 225.
Pretension of would-be genius, 280.
Prevision of the imagination, 239.
Primitive Poetry, sagas, folk-lore, ballads, etc., 78.
Prince Deukalion, Taylor, 254.
Princess, The, Tennyson, 237, 264.
Prior, 94.
"Problem, The," Emerson, 55.
Procter, B. W., 179.
Production, rather than motive, the test, 169.
Prometheus Bound, Æschylus, 98, 104.
Prometheus Unbound, Shelley, 124, 132.
Prophetic Faculty, the poet as Vates, 23; the Hebraic, 84; of Blake, 234; its vision, 285; and see 287, also Inspiration.
Prose, the antithesis of verse, 20;
