Settle, Elkanah, passage from
his Empress of Marocco, 252
and n. 2
Shaftesbury, Ashley Cooper, first
Earl of, his exaggerated dic-
tion, 12

Shakespeare, William, state of
English poetry at his death,
3-41 passim; not always
clear in metaphor, 12, 13; re-
ferred to, 17, 23, 24, 27, 29,
48, 76, 137, 170, 245, 249,
254, 255; the legend that he
was the actual father of Wil-
liam Davenant, 141-145;
glides sometimes into the triple
cadence, 187; feeling of re-
serve due in reading some of
his Sonnets, 217
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 178
Sherburne, Edward, 209 n. I
Shirley, James, 100, 119, 121;
attends his patron, Queen
Henrietta Maria, during the
Exile, 113, 118

Sidney, Lady Dorothy, Waller's
'Sacharissa,' 63—73, 76—79.
Lady Lucy, Waller's
letter to her on Sacharissa's
marriage, 77

Sir Philip, 36, 64, 145;
his Arcadia, 25, 26, 75
Siege of Rhodes, by William
Davenant, 168, 169, 242 n.
Sleep and Poetry, quotation from
John Keats', 4, 5

Somerville, William, praises
Denham in his poem The
Chace, 108 n. 2

Song to a Rose, by Waller, 70
Song-writing, English, 72; Dry-
den's songs, 258, 259
Sonnets, of Philip Ayres, 211;
of William Shakespeare, 217
Sophy, The, by Sir John Den-
ham, 96, 99—103

Southey, Robert, his position
analogous to that of William
Davenant, 155-158
Spain, character of, its litera-
ture, 177

Spence, Joseph, 264
Spencer, Henry, Earl of Sunder-
land, marries Lady Dorothy
Sidney, 'Sacharissa,' 76; kill-
ed at the battle of Newbury,
77

Spenser, Edmund, 17, 19, 24,
27, 48, 169, 170, 249, 254
Sprat, Thomas (Bishop of Ro-
chester), associated with Dry-
Iden in his Heroic Stanzas,
228 n.

Square Cap, a Cambridge poem

by John Cleveland, 190
St Amant, Marc Antoine Gé-
rard, question of his influence
on English poetry, 21, 119
St Evremond, Charles, his epi-
gram on Waller, 240 n.
Stanley, Thomas, 203-209
Stanza, the four-line heroic, the
chief poems written in it, and
its character, 164–166
Starter, Dutch poet, his relation
to Thomas Dekker, 17
Stjernhjelm, Georg, first modern
Swedish poet, 16

Suckling, Sir John, 22, 59, 150,
151 n., 208

Sunderland, Earl of, see Spencer,
Henry

Swinburne, A. C., 178'

Thalaba, by Robert Southey,
158

Thealma and Clearchus, its dis-
puted authorship, 209 n. 2
To the King on his Navy, pas-
sage from Waller's, 55 and n.
Topographical poetry, 104
Tourneur, Cyril, 30-32
Transformed Metamorphosis, by
Cyril Tourneur, 31, 32
Translating, Denham's Essay on

the art of, 98, 99, 272-274
Tyr et Sidon, a French romantic
tragedy of the seventeenth cen-
tury, 102

Upon his Majesty's repairing of
Paul's, by Edmund Waller,
79-82

Vaughan, Henry, the Silurist,

the last of George Herbert's
sacred school of Cambridge
poets, 209

Vigil of Venus, by Thomas
Stanley, 207
Voltaire, 166

Vondel, Justus vanden, in re-
lation to John Milton, 17;
his influence on Dutch poetry,
17, 18

Waller, Edmund, his family,
birth, and early life (1605-
1621), 48–51; in 1621, mem-
ber of Parliament for Amer-
sham, 51; member for Chip-
ping Wycombe in Charles I.'s
first Parliament (August, 1625),
59; and in the second (Feb.
1626), 60; for Amersham in
the third (March, 1628), 60;
in 1627 marries Ann Banks,
and (1628) retires to Beacons-
field, 60, 61; 1629, his wife
dies at Hallbarn, 63; Sacha-

rissa, and the poems addressed
to her, 63-73, 76-79; his
political career till his banish-
ment (1643), 82-91; 1641,
impeaches Sir Francis Crawley
on the ship-money question,
84; 1642, quits the 'Root and
Branch' party, 84; joins the
King, plots against Parlia-
ment, his arrest, and narrow
escape, 87-91; his life in
France during his exile (1643—
1653): meets the Royalist
Exiles, 117, 122; joined by
Evelyn on a tour in Italy,
125-128; 1653, Cromwell
allows him to return to, 129,
229, 231; his life at Court
after the Restoration (1660-
1687), 232-242:

his description of the style
of Horace, 3 n.; his purifica-
tion of verse, 14; his use and
treatment of the couplet, 20,
55, 58, 59, 70, 104, 140, 200,
233, 234; question of French
influence upon him, 21, 119;
the opinion of him expressed
in the Biographia Britannica
(1766), 45; his relations with
Dryden, 54, 95, 153, 228 n.;
his influence and its reasons,
56, 69, 82, 95, 102, 162, 182—
184, 245, 264, 265; his rela-
tions with George Morley, 62,
63, 70; his Battle of the Summer
Islands, 65, 73–76, 150; Up-
on his Majesty's repairing of
Paul's, 79-81; his connection
with Denham, 63, 79, 80, 96,
102, 105, 120, 140, 156, 177,
183, 219, 228; with Sidney
Godolphin, 109, 110, 269;
editions of his poems, 124 and
n.; his Panegyric on Crom-
well, 129, 231, 232; Dave-

nant's estimate of his poetry,
150; his relations with Cowley,
171, 174, 177; his use of the
triple cadence, 187-189;
Wild's eulogy of him, 193,
194; his Divine Love, 240,
241; Saint Evremond's epi-
gram on him, 240 n.; rewrites
the Maid's Tragedy in rimed
couplets, 247; Bishop Atter-
bury's criticism of him, 249—
251; his letter to Queen
Henrietta Maria, 275-277;
Preface to his posthumous
poems, 278-284; various al-
lusions to him, 22, 39, 40, 47,
98, 108, 118, 119, 121, 152,
168-171, 173, 174, 187, 203,
208, 210, 211, 226, 229
Walsh, William, his advice to
Pope, 264

Walton, Izaak, the probable
author of Thealma and Cle-
archus, 209 n. 2
Warburton, William, Bishop of
Gloucester, his remark on the
study of literature, 138, 139
Warner, William, his Albion's
England, 75

Webb, John, 242 n.

Webster, John, 24, 100, 137
Weeping of the Magdalen,

Richard Crashaw's style in,
14 n.

Wild, Robert, 161, 184, 191–

197; his Iter Boreale, 161,
192, 193; quotation from his
verses on the death of Dr
Edmund Calamy, 193 n.
Winchelsea, Countess of, Anne
Finch, passage from an un-
published poem of, 256
Windsor Forest, by Alexander
Pope, prompted by Denham's
Cooper's Hill, 108

Wood, Anthony à, his picture
of Denham as an under-
graduate, 96; reference in
his writings to Davenant,
142 n. 1; to Thomas Stanley,
204

Wordsworth, William, assists to

revolutionize the taste for clas-
sical poetry, 4, 220; his ulti-
mate triumph foreseen by
Robert Southey, 156

Wren, Sir Christopher, associ-
ated with Sir John Denham
in architectural work, 243
and n.

Zlatna, specimen from Martin
Opitz's, 16 n.