number of the poems which had been written at fitful intervals
between 1895 and 1910 he seems to have been visited by some-
thing of the old excitement and took farewell of his Muse in
what some consider three of the loveliest poems he ever wrote. ¹
The volumes of Manilius appeared at steady intervals till 1930
when he published the fifth and wrote to a friend that he 'now
intended to do nothing for ever and ever'. An edition of Lucan
was published by him in 1925 and in 1933 he gave the Leslie
Stephen Lecture, choosing as his subject The Name and Nature
of Poetry, maintaining that response to poetry is physical rather
than intellectual. His health was now ebbing and he hastened his
end by refusing to relinquish his lectures. He died on 30th April
1936, having completed his pilgrimage in deep loneliness.

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