[341] Barbarians, Philistines, Populace.  Arnold’s designations for the aristocratic, middle, and lower classes of England in Culture and Anarchy.

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[342] Paul Amand Challemel-Lacour (1827-96), French statesman and man of letters.

[343] See The Function of Criticism, Selections, Note 4, p. 44. [Transcriber’s note:  This is Footnote 54 in this e-text.]

[344] From Journal d’un Voyageur, February 10, 1871, p. 309.

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[345] The closing sentence of the Nicene Creed with expecto changed to exspectat.  For the English translation see Morning Prayer in the Episcopal Prayer Book; for the Greek and Latin see Schaff, Creeds of Christendom, II, 58, 59.

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[346] Published in Macmillan’s Magazine, July, 1879, vol.  XL; as Preface to The Poems of Wordsworth, chosen and edited by Arnold in 1879; and in Essays in Criticism, Second Series, 1888.

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[347] Rydal Mount.  Wordsworth’s home in the Lake District from 1813 until his death in 1850.

[348] 1842.  The year of publication of the two-volume edition of Tennyson’s poems, containing Locksley Hall, Ulysses, etc.

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[349] candid friend.  Arnold himself.

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[350] The Biographie Universelle, ou Dictionnaire historique of F.X. de Feller (1735-1802) was originally published in 1781.

[351] Henry Cochin.  A brilliant lawyer and writer of Paris, 1687-1747.

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[352] Amphictyonic Court.  An association of Ancient Greek communities centering in a shrine.

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[353] Gottlieb Friedrich Klopstock (1724-1803) was author of Der Messias.

[354] Lessing.  See Sweetness and Light, Selections, Note 2, p. 271.[Transcriber’s note:  This is Footnote 427 in this e-text.]

[355] Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862), romantic lyric poet.

[356] Friedrich Rueckert (1788-1866) was the author of Liebesfruehling and other poems.

[357] Heine.  See Heinrich Heine, Selections, pp. 112-144.

[358] The greatest poems of Vicenzo da Filicaja (1642-1707) are six odes inspired by the victory of Sobieski.

[359] Vittorio, Count Alfieri (1749-1803), Italian dramatist.  His best-known drama is his Saul.