General index
(Note: This index is intended to be useful: no attempt has been made to record
every appearance of every proper name.)| ACHILLES, Alexander’s visit to his tomb, 46–7. | |
| Aeschylus, affinity between his hyperboles and impressionistic metaphors and Shakespeare’s, 35–6, 190, 202; his Prometheus defying Zeus quoted as an example of hyperbole, 155, 213; a speech of Clytemnestra to Agamemnon containing phrases like those found in hymns to the gods, 207. | |
| Alexander of Macedon, his visit to the tomb of Achilles, 46–7. | |
| Ariosto, on Nature’s having ‘broken the mould’ with which she made the Duke of Ross, 168–9. | |
| Aristotle, on the ‘youthfulness’ of hyperboles, 154–5, 158. | |
| Arnold, Matthew, on ‘the glorious class of the best’, 58, note 2; his niece wished he would more often be ‘wholly serious’, 222. | |
| Augustus, Emperor, his banishment of Ovid, 39. | |
| Ausonius, his 14th Idyll, Rosae, the most imitated of all ancient treatments of the topic carpe florem, 66. |
| BACCHYLIDES, on the immortality conferred by poetry, 31. | |
| Bacon, Francis, on the unexpectedly peaceful transition from Elizabeth to James I, 14, note 2; his rendering of a passage from Lucretius quoted, 210. | |
| Bateson, F. W., the kind of thing he finds ‘disturbing’, 158. | |
| Beeching, H. C, accepts the Quarto’s arrangement of the sonnets, 13; on the influence of Shakespeare on Drayton’s sonnets, 14, note 1; excellence of his edition of the Sonnets, 15, note. | |
| Beethoven, a monumental and representative figure, whose face cannot be dissociated from his works, 129–30; what he said of his Pastoral Symphony might be applied to many things in Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 194; Shakespeare may have actually had to endure from his friend such slights and insults as Beethoven was always suspecting, 226–7. | |
| Belleau, Remy, his commentary on Ronsard’s II Amours, 71. | |
| Bible, The, quoted: 1 Corinthians, vi, 19 (‘Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost’), 150; Galatians, ii, 20 (‘I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me’), 217; Hebrews, xi, 1 (‘the substance of things hoped for’), 229; James, i, 17 (‘with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning’), 108; Job, xix, 26 (‘Though … worms destroy this body’), 34, note; Matthew, xviii, 3 (‘Except ye turn, and become as little children’), 125, note; Song of Solomon, viii, 7 (‘Many waters cannot quench love’), 107. | |
| Blake, William, ‘he who generalises is an idiot’, 118. |
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