[360] Manzoni (1785-1873) was a poet and novelist, author of I Promessi Sposi.

[361] Giacomo, Count Leopardi (1798-1837), Italian poet.  His writings are characterized by deep-seated melancholy.

[362] Jean Racine (1639-99), tragic dramatist.

[363] Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711), poet and critic.

[364] Andre de Chenier (1762-94), poet, author of Jeune Captive, etc.

[365] Pierre Jean de Beranger (1780-1857), song-writer.

[366] Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (1790-1869), poet, historian, and statesman.

[367] Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810-57), poet, play-writer, and novelist.

PAGE 228

[368] From The Recluse, l. 754.

PAGE 229

[369] Paradise Lost, II, 553-54.

PAGE 230

[370] The Tempest, IV, i, 156-58.

[371] criticism of life.  See The Study of Poetry, Selections, Note 1, p. 57.[Transcriber’s note:  This is Footnote 66 in this e-text.]

PAGE 231

[372] Discourses of Epictetus, trans.  Long, 1903, vol.  I, book II, chap.  XXIII, p. 248.

PAGE 232

[373] Theophile Gautier.  A noted French poet, critic, and novelist, and a leader of the French Romantic Movement (1811-72).

[374] The Recluse, ll. 767-71.

[375] AEneid, VI, 662.

PAGE 233

[376] Leslie Stephen.  English biographer and literary critic (1832-1904).  He was the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.  Arnold quotes from the essay on Wordsworth’s Ethics in Hours in a Library (1874-79), vol.  III.

[377] Excursion, IV, 73-76.

PAGE 234

[378] Ibid., II, 10-17.

[379] Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.

PAGE 235

[380] Excursion, IX, 293-302.

PAGE 236

[381] See p. 232.[Transcriber’s note:  This approximates to the section following the text reference for Footnote 373 in this e-text.]

PAGE 237

[382] the “not ourselves." Arnold quotes his own definition of God as “the enduring power, not ourselves, which makes for righteousness.”  See Literature and Dogma, chap.  I.

[383] The opening sentence of a famous criticism of the Excursion published in the Edinburgh Review for November, 1814, no. 47.  It was written by Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850), Scottish judge and literary critic, and first editor of the Edinburgh Review.