FOOT-NOTES:

[335] _Defense_, ii. 3.

[336] _Ibid._ ii. 11.

[337] Ronsard, vii. 310, 325.

[338] Ronsard, vii. 37 _sq._

[339] Ronsard, vi. 311 _sq._

[340] _Essais_, i. 36, Florio's translation.

[341] Ronsard, vii. 322. _Cf._ Aristotle, _Poet._ ix. 1-4; xxv. 6, 7.

[342] _Poet._ iii. 24.

[343] _De Poeta_, pp. 44, 47.

[344] _Art Poet._ i. 187.

[345] _Ibid._ i. 87 _sq._

[346] _Art Poet._ ii. 261.

[347] _Ibid._ i. 697 _sq._

[348] _Osservationi_, Vinegia, 1560, p. 190.

[349] _Art Poet._ i. 744.

[350] _Art Poet._ i. 19. _Cf._ Ta.s.so, cited by Sh.e.l.ley, _Defence_, p.

42, "No one merits the name of creator except G.o.d and the poet."

[351] Sylvester's _Du Bartas_, 1641, p. 242.

[352] _Art Poet._ i. 149.

[353] Sibilet, _Art Poet._ ii. 8.

[354] Pelletier, _Art Poet._ ii. 7.

[355] _Ibid._

[356] Robert, app. iii.

[357] Ronsard, iii. 18 _sq._

[358] _Art Poet._ iii. 153.

[359] _Ibid._ ii. 1113, 441.

[360] _Art Poet._ ii. 459.

[361] _Ibid._ iii. 143.

[362] _Ibid._ iii. 181.

[363] _Ibid._ iii. 189 _sq._

[364] Robert, app. iv.

[365] _Art Poet._ v. 6.

[366] Robert, app. iii.

[367] _Poetica_, p. 534.

[368] Ronsard, iii. 19.

[369] _Arte Poetica_, p. 71.

[370] _Ibid._ p. 12; _De Poeta_, p. 149.

[371] _Art Poet._ ii. 253.

[372] Boileau, _Art Poet._ iii. 45.

[373] Arnaud, app. iii.

[374] _Art Poet._ iii. 45.

[375] _Art Poet._ ii. 8.

[376] _Ibid._ i. 3.

[377] _Ibid._ i. 5. _Cf._ Capriano, cap. v.

[378] Ronsard, iii. 23, 29.

[379] Vauquelin, _Art Poet._ i. 471, 503.

[380] Boileau, _Art Poet._ iii. 161.

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