models had made possible and common a standard of formal merit which was very rare at an earlier time. Now this standard of formal merit undoubtedly did not generally exist in the days of Elizabeth. But what did generally exist was the "wind blowing where it listeth," the presence and the influence of which are least likely to be mistaken or denied by those who are most strenuous in insisting on the importance and the necessity of formal excellence itself. I once undertook for several years the criticism of minor poetry for a literary journal, which gave more room than most to such things, and during the time I think I must have read through or looked over probably not much less than a thousand, certainly not less than five or six hundred volumes. I am speaking with seriousness when I say that nothing like the note of the merely casual pieces quoted or referred to above was to be detected in more than at the outside two or three of these volumes, and that where it seemed to sound faintly some second volume of the same author's almost always came to smother it soon after. There was plenty of quite respectable poetic learning next to nothing of the poetic spirit. Now in the period dealt with in this volume that spirit is everywhere, and so are its sisters, the spirits of drama and of prose. They may appear in full concentration and lustre, as in Hamlet or The Faerie Queene; or in fitful and intermittent flashes, as in scores and hundreds of sonneteers, pamphleteers, playwrights, madrigalists, preachers. But they are always not far off. In reading other literatures a man may lose little by obeying the advice of those who tell him only to read the best things: in reading Elizabethan literature by obeying he can only disobey that advice, for the best things are everywhere. INDEX I. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL Single plays, poems, etc., not mentioned in this Index will be found in the collections referred ALEXANDER, SIR WILLIAM. See Stirling. Arber, E., English Garner, vols. i.-vii., Birmingham, 1877-83. BACON, FRANCIS, Works of. 3 vols. folio, London, 1753. Barnabee's Journal. By R. Braithwaite. Ed. Haslewood and Hazlitt, London, 1876. Issues, vol. i. Barnfield, Richard, Poems. Ed. Arber, Birmingham, 1882. Beaumont, Francis, Poems of. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. vi. Revised Version, Oxford, 1885. Breton, Nicholas, Works of. Ed. Grosart, 2 vols. Privately printed, 1879. In Chalmers's Poets, vol. vi. Brome, Richard, Plays of 3 vols., London, 1873. Brooke, Fulke Greville, Lord, Works of. Ed. Grosart, 4 vols. 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