" It was much attacked, especially as applied
to poetry, and is defended as so applied in the essay on _Byron_ (1881).
See also _Wordsworth, Selections_, p. 230.[Transcriber's note: This is
Footnote 371 in this e-text.]
[67] Compare Arnold's definition of the function of criticism,
_Selections_, p. 52.[Transcriber's note: This approximates to the
section following the text reference for Footnote 61 in this e-text.]
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[68] ~Paul Pellisson~ (1624-93). French author, friend of Mlle. Scudery,
and historiographer to the king.
[69] Barren and servile civility.
70. ~M. Charles d' Hericault~ was joint editor of the Jannet edition
(1868-72) of the poems of ~Clement Marot~ (1496-1544).
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[71] _Imitation of Christ_, Book III, chap. 43, 2.
[72] ~Caedmon~. The first important religious poet in Old English
literature. Died about 680 A.D.
[73] ~Ludovic Vitet~ (1802-73). French dramatist and politician.
[74] ~Chanson de Roland~. The greatest of the _Chansons des Gestes_,
long narrative poems dealing with warfare and adventure popular in
France during the Middle Ages.
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