The following abbreviations have been used in the footnotes:
Biographia Literaria. — S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ed. J. Shawcross, 2 vols. 1907.
Boswell, Life — Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill and L. F. Powell, 4 vols. 1934.
Chalmers. — The Works of the English Poets, 21vols. 1810.
Dennis, Critical Works —The Critical Works of John Dennis, ed. Edward Niles Hooker, 2 vols. 1939—43·
Dryden, Essays —Essays of John Dryden, ed. W. P. Ker, 2 vols. 1900.
Gray, Correspondence — Correspondence of Thomas Gray, ed. Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, 3 vols. 1935.
Hobbes, Leviathan. —'Everyman' edition.
Johnson, Lives — Lives of the English Poets, ed. G. B. Hill, 3 vols. 1905.
Reynolds, Discourses —'Everyman' edition.
Shaftesbury, Characteristics — Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, ed. 1757
Spence, Anecdotes — Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, ed. S. W. Singer, 1820.
Spingarn — Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, ed. J. E. Spingarn, 3 vols. 1908.
S.P. — Studies in Philology.
Wordsworth's Literary Criticism — Ed. Nowell C. Smith, 1905.