¹ See Herbert Schöffler, Protestantismus und Literatur (Leipzig, 1922); J. W. Draper, The Funeral Elegy and the Rise of English Romanticism (New York 1929); and the present writer's Religious Trends in English Poetry: Protestantism and the Cult of Sentiment, 1700–1740 (New York, 1939).

² See J. W. Beach, The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry (New York, 1936); and C. A. Moore, “Shaftesbury and the Ethical Poets in England, 1700–1760,” PMLA, xxxi (1918), 264 ff.

³ This view of Calvinism is ably set forth by William Haller in his The Rise of Puritanism (New York, 1938).

⁴ The close historical relation between Calvinistic and romantic melancholy is recognized by J. W. Draper, op. cit., by A. L. Reed, The Background of Gray's “Elegy” (New York, 1924); and by Eleanor Sickels, The Gloomy Egoist (New York, 1932).

⁵ See F. W. Powicke, The Cambridge Platonists (London, 1926).

⁶ The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, xiii, 450.

⁷ Ibid., xv, 250.

⁸ Keats, Ode to a Nightingale. The conception of romanticism expressed in this paragraph receives fuller treatment in the present writer's The Romantic Quest (New York, 1931).

⁹ See R. M. Jones, Studies in Mystical Religion (London, 1909); and A. C. McGiffert, Protestant Thought before Kant (New York, 1911).

¹⁰ For information as to the romanticism of the Victorian period, see A. H. Thorndike, Literature in a Changing Age (New York, 1925); and F. L. Lucas, The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal (Cambridge, Eng., 1936).

¹¹ See L. M. Price, The Reception of English Literature in Germany (Berkeley, California, 1932); and Eric Partridge, The French Romantics' Knowledge of English Literature (Paris, 1924).

¹² See F. W. Stokoe, German Influence in the English Romantic Period, 1788–1818 (Cambridge, Eng., 1926); and Marcel Moraud, Le romantisme français en Angleterre de 1814 à 1848 (Paris, 1933).

¹³ See C. F. Harrold, Carlyle and German Thought (New Haven, 1934).

¹⁴ See P. N. Landis, “The Waverley Novels, or A Hundred Years After,” PMLA, lii (1937), 461–473.

¹⁵ For more serious and respectful treatment of Coleridge in this connection, see J. H. Muirhead, Coleridge as a Philosopher (London, 1930).

¹⁶ See C. C. Brinton, The Political Ideas of the English Romanticists (London, 1926); and Alfred Cobban, Edmund Burke and the Revolt against the Eighteenth Century: A Study of the Political and Social Thinking of Burke, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey (London, 1929).

¹⁷ The allusion of course is to Novalis' romance, Heinrich von Ofterdingen.

¹⁸ Wordsworth, French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement.

¹⁹ Letter to Shelley, August, 1820.

²⁰ Letter to John Taylor, April 24, 1818.

²¹ La carne, la morte, e il diavolo nella letteratura romantica (Milan and Rome, 1930). Translated as The Romantic Agony by Angus Davidson (London, 1933).

²² G. M. Harper, William Wordsworth (New York, 1916), i, 142.