However, this study of the Greek model has given some terms to English literature which every student ought to know.  One of these terms is amoebaean,—­amoebaean poetry being dialogue poetry composed in the form of question and reply.  The original Greek signification was that of alternate speaking.  Please do not forget the word.  You may often find it in critical studies in essays upon contemporary literature; and when you see it again, remember Theocritus and the school of Greek poets who first introduced the charm of amoebaean poetry.  I hope that this little lecture will interest some of you in Theocritus sufficiently to induce you to read him carefully through and through.  But remember that you can not get the value of even a single poem of his at a single reading.  We have become so much accustomed to conventional forms of literature that the simple art of poetry like this quite escapes us at first sight.  We have to read it over and over again many times, and to think about it; then only we feel the wonderful charm.

INDEX

    [Transcriber’s note:  Page numbers have been converted to chapter
    numbers in this index.]

    “A dry cicale chirps to a lass making hay,” 14
    Aicard, Jean, 11
    Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 4
    “Along the garden ways just now,” 2
    “Amaturus,” 3
    “A Ma Future,” 3
    “Amelia,” 2
    “Amis and Amile,” Introduction, 13
    “Amphibian,” 10
    Andrews, Bishop Lancelot, 6
    “Angel in the House, The,” 2
    “An Invocation,” 14
    “Appreciations of Poetry,” Introduction
    “Arabian Nights, The,” 13
    “Arachne,” 10
    Arnold, Sir Edwin, 3
    Arnold, Matthew, 7, 15
    “Art of Worldly Wisdom, The,” 7
    Ashe, Thomas, 3
    “A simple ring with a simple stone,” 3
    “Atalanta in Calydon,” 12
    “Atalanta’s Race,” 2

    “Bhagavad-Gita, The,” 6
    Bible, The, Introduction, 3, 6, 12, 13
    Bion, 14
    Blake, William, 6, 10
    Book of Common Prayer, The, 12
    Breton, Jules, 11
    “Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art,” 2
    Browning, Robert, 2, 3, 10, 14
    “Burly, dozing humble bee,” 10
    “Busy, curious thirsty fly,” 10
    Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 2, 3

    Carew, Thomas, 3
    Carlyle, Thomas, 5, 6
    Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of, 7
    Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 2
    Coleridge, Hartley, 3
    Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 2, 6, 10
    “Conservative, A,” 10
    Cooke, Rose Terry, 10
    Cory, William, Introduction, 3, 14
    Crashaw, Richard, 3

    Dante Alighieri, 2
    “Daughter of Cleomenes, The,” 14
    Descartes, Rene, 10
    “Deteriora,” 14
    Dickens, Charles, Introduction
    “Djins, Les,” 4
    “Dream of Fair Women, A,” 14

    “Emaux et Camees,” 11
    Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 4, 10
    “Epigramme Funeraire,” 11
    “Evelyn Hope,” 3