Retentive Faculty. See Imagination.
Revelation, of scientific truth, 33 et seq.; through poetic insight, 45; and see Inspiration and Insight.
Revolt, Poetry of, 123-126, passim.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 50; as an Academician, 161, 162.
Rhapsodists, the, 9; primitive recounters, 79.
Rhetoric, and Poetry, Milton on, 27; and see 59.
Rhyme, "a memory and a hope," 54; not essential to rhythm, 56; uses of, ib; "the Walkers and Barnums," 77.
Rhythm, its importance emphasized by Shelley, Watts, and others, 25, 26; Poe on, 26; the guild-mark of uttered poetry, 51-59; its universal and mysterious potency in nature and art, 51, 52; vibrations of, 52; is spontaneous, 53; method, factors, and phenomena, 54, 56; correspondence with linguistic meaning, ib.; Mill on, 55; poetic, distinct from that of prose, and out of place in prose, 56-59; freed by Milton, 116 ; splendor and melody of Shelley's and of Swinburne's, 132; dangers of excessive, 132, 133; search for new effects, 158; Whitman's and Lanier's attempts to make symphonic, 196; Cowper and the return to flexible verse, 214.
Richter ("Jean Paul"), 58, 183.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The, Coleridge, 236, 238.
Ring and the Book, The, Browning, 192.
"Rizpah," Tennyson, 270.
Romance, Prose. See Fiction.
Romanticism, emotional conception of poetry, by Byron, Moore, Mill, etc., 19, 20; "The Romantic School," ib., 118,—traits and leaders of, 118-127,—theory of, 262; vs. realism, 145, 199; the true, 151; French and German, 243; its key note, 267.
Romantic School, The, Heine, 118.
Romola, Mrs. Cross, 137.
Ronsard, 171.
Rood, O. N., scientist, 35.
"Rose Aylmer," Landor, 184.
Rossetti, Christina, 269.
Rossetti, D. G., human passion of, 269; and see 130, 131, 158, 168, 238, 283.
Rousseau, painter, 246.
Rowland, H. A., physicist, 35.
Rubáiyát, Omar Khayyám, 212; quoted, 217.
Rubinstein, A., musician, 9.
Rules, their inefficiency, 11.
Ruskin, on the nature of poetry, 20; on the "pathetic fallacy," 204 et seq.; cited, 142; and see 50, 58.
Ruth, The Book of, 175.
Sadness, an effect of beauty, 267.
Sainte-Beuve, critic, 143.
Salvini, actor, 110.
Samson Agonistes, Milton, 116.
