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Ruskin, John, 257
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 45, 196; Nouveaux Lundis, 194
Salisbury, Lord, 92
Sandys, Edwin, 81; trans. Metamorphoses, 75, 79
Schelling, Friedrich W. J. von, 6, 16, 50, 65, 182, 183, 186, 187, 254
Science, 13–19, 32, 44, 103, 212, 288; language as, 6, 7–10, 12, 30, 44, 213, 287; logic in, 8–9; biological, 10, 12; vs. poetry, 19, 25, 30; relation between poetry and, 289–91; art vs. utilitarian science, 47; theology and poetry as fellow disciplines of, 66–67
Selden, John, 187
Selincourt, E. de, 341
Seward, Anna, 220, 237, 240, 241, 243, 244; Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin, 223, 227–28
Sex and fertility, 209–10, 249, 267–68, 273, 286, 288, 292, 330–31, 393–94, 396, 402, 405
Shakespeare, William, 5, 50, 51, 63, 80, 151, 171, 172, 179, 188, 199, 223, 226, 231, 290, 296, 299, 312, 326, 348, 353, 362; Orpheus myth in, 58–59; Herder on, 142, 153; King Henry VIII, 56; King Lear, 57, 140, 155, 157, 158–68, 210, 216, 356, 368; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 88–91, 110–17, 121–23, 127, 128–33, 139–41, 149, 155, 159, 210, 224, 243; The Tempest, 110, 113, 155, 157, 224, 286, 287; The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 58; The Winter’s Tale, 124–25
Shaw, Airy H. K., 200
Shaw, George Bernard, 297; Back to Methuselah, 221
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 5, 138, 282, 289, 358; use of myth, 298; Defence of Poetry, 31, 61, 280, 299; Prometheus Unbound, 281, 297–300; The Revolt of Islam, 299
Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott, 44
Sidney, Sir Philip, 50, 71, 75, 76, 79, 106, 318; Orpheus myth in, 72; Apologie for Poesie, 68, 72–74
Sonnet cycle, 387
Spedding, James, 60, 71, 147
Spender, Stephen, 314; The Making of a Poem, 7
Spengler, Oswald, 274
Spinoza, Baruch, 223, 226
Sprat, Thomas, 60, 75, 79, 106, 176, 180, 195, 334; Orpheus myth in, 72; History of the Royal Society of London, 72–74
Spurgeon, Caroline, 85
Stael, Madame de, 254
Strauss, David Friedrich, 17, 183
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 5, 50, 181, 209, 210; Orphic vision of, 184–90; Emerson on, 186–90; Camena Borea, 185; Daedalus Hyperboreus, 185; Oeconomia Regni Animalis, 185, 187; On the White Horse Mentioned in the Apocalypse, 189; Principia Rerum Naturalium, 185
Taxonomy, 172, 186, 188, 191, 193, 194, 199, 201, 203, 210, 217, 218, 227, 230, 255, 264–65, 268, 355
Taylor, Thomas, The Mystical Initiations, 175
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, In Memoriam, 337
Themes of book, 339
Theology, in relation to science and poetry, 66–67; doctrine of inspiration in, 374
Thinking, thought: prelogical, 17, 81; scientific, 17–19; logical vs. imaginative, 19; in England, 1600–1610, 55; postlogical, see Postlogic; Orphic tradition of, 404
Thompson, D’Arcy, 236; On Growth and Form, 10, 139, 191–92
Thurn und Taxis, Princess von, 313
Time, in Bacon, 101–2
Trevelyan, Humphry, Goethe and the Greeks, 177
Trickett, Rachel, 69
Trivium, 30, 34, 73, 126
Urania, 69, 246, 251, 294, 300
Utnapishtim, 358
Valéry, Paul, 8, 85, 288, 325
Vico, Giambattista, 5, 50, 150, 175, 181, 286, 354; Diritto universale, 24; Scienza nuova, 16, 182–84
Virgil, Aeneid, 229, 233, 302, 304
Wagner, Richard, 297
Wallace, Alfred Russell, 216; Darwinism, 201
Warburton, Bishop, 224; The Divine Legation of Moses, 174–75
Watt, James, 220
West, Rebecca, 49, 50
Whyte, Lance, 49, 50, 60, 221
Wilmott, A. J., 200
Wilson, Dover, 129
Words: vs. mathematics, 19, 25; as meaning and history, 23; as mental activity, 24–25; Mechanicals’ use of, 131–32. See also Language
Wordsworth, William, 5, 80, 231, 282, 289, 327, 334, 372, 377, 378, 381, 399; Orpheus myth in, 309–10, 316–27, 335–36, 338–70; The Excursion, 293–96, 303, 306, 338, 341, 346, 365; Lyrical Ballads, 347, Preface to, 289–91, 335; On the Power of Sound, 316, 320–26, 362, 386, 389; “Poems of the Imagination,” 316, 317, 320; Power of Music, 316, 317–20, 323; The Prelude, 205, 251, 252, 279–80, 291–93, 297, 301, 302, 304, 306, 308, 314, 316, 318, 323, 325, 336–70, 386; The Recluse, 251, 293, 302, 305–8, 311, 313, 323, 342; The Reverie of Poor Susan, 317
Elizabeth Sewell, The Orphic Voice