sure fills,
And dances with the daffodils."

The justice of these opinions should be tested by each student from his
own experience.

A FABLE FOR CRITICS

36. ignified: melted.

40. An example of Lowell's puns, which are generally critcized as
belonging to a low order of humor.

41. Parnassus: a mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and
hence the domain of the arts in general.

49. inter nos: between us.

bl. ices. Isis was the Egyptian goddess of the arts and of agriculture.

60. bemummying: a word coined by Lowell to mean causing one to dry up
like a mummy.

68.. Pythoness: woman with power of prophecy.

69. tripod: a bronze altar over which the Pythoness at Delphi uttered
her oracles.

"Most of his judgments are, however, those of posterity though often, as
in the case of Hawthorns, he was characterizing writers who had not done
their best work." --CAIRNS.

92. scathe: injury.

93. rathe: early in the season.

96. John Bunyan Fouque is an extraordinary combination of names as of
characteristics. Bunyan is known everywhere for his devotion to truth as
he saw it; the oak in character. Friederich Heinrich Karl, Baron de
Lamotte-Fouque, was a German soldier, but is better known as a romantic
writer. His best-known work is "Undine," the anemone in daintiness of
fancy and delicacy of expression.

A Puritan Tieck is another anomaly. From the early poems in this
anthology the Puritan type is evident; Tieck was a German writer who
revolted against the sternness of life and believed in beauty and
romance.

110. In 1821 Scott published The Pilot, a novel of the sea, which was
very popular. Cooper, however, thought he could improve upon it and so
in 1823 he published "The Pilot," hoping to show his superiority.

112. The bay was used for a garland of honor to a poet.

124. Nathaniel Bumpo was "Leatherstocking," who gave his name to the
series of Cooper s novels.

126. Long Tom Coffin was the hero in The Pilot.

130. derniere chemise. A pun upon the word "shift," which here means
stratagem.

148. Parson Adams is one of the most delightful of all notion
characters. Fielding pictures him in his novel Joseph Andrews in such a
manner that you always sympathize with him even if you must laugh at his
simplicity.

Dr. Primrose in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield is a direct literary
descendant of Parson Adams. He is one of the best-known characters in