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Petrarch—Continued

Laura, 34, 47–50, 53, 59, 71–2,

128–31, 152, 250–1

poetic fame, 3, 59, 71, 123–5,

229, 241

sonnet form and characteristics,

54, 55, 112, 120–2, 125–8,

133–5, 137, 140, 146–7,

203, 241

Phelan, Joseph, 249

Philips, Ambrose, 127, 138

translation of Sappho’s ode, 133,

145–7, 251

Philips, Katherine, 121

Phillips, Richard, 227

Pindar, 53, 80, 203

Pindar, Peter, see Wolcot, John

Piozzi, Hester, 35, 40–1, 45, 63,

114, 246, 247

Pitt, William (the younger), 21, 216

abuses of power, 68, 104, 105,

110, 153–4, 157, 166–7, 195

influence on the press, 66, 67, 69,

97, 154–5

King’s illness, 67

rewards Pye with laureateship, 84

satirized, 167, 176–8, 182, 190,

248, 251

war with France, 97, 104

and Whig politics, 36

Plato, 76, 115

Platonic/platonic love, 46, 54–5,

63, 82, 92

Plumptre, Ann, 114

Plymley, Joseph, 250

Poe, Edgar Allan, 8

“Ulalume,” 221

Poet Laureate, 49, 84

see also Pye, Henry James;

Warton, Thomas

poetic form, 6, 8–11, 15–16, 43–4,

53, 54–5, 57–8, 60, 71–2,

74, 77–81, 99–100, 103,

121–5, 131–52, 161–3, 165,

217, 242, 244

see also “Alonzo meter;” bal-

lad; blank verse; couplets;

elegy; heroic epistle; meter;

nonce forms; ode; quatrains;

Sapphic meter; sonnet;

Spenserian stanza

A Poetical Epistle from Florizel to

Perdita, 249

The Poetry of the World, 32–4,

37–8, 40–1, 45–50, 70, 93

Poole, Thomas, 227

Pope, Alexander, 6, 12, 87, 90, 106,

127, 136, 138, 238

The Dunciad, 106

Eloisa to Abelard, 46, 108,

127–32, 151, 250–1

Essay on Criticism, An, 89, 162,

201–2

“First Epistle of the Second Book

of Horace Imitated,” 88

“First Satire of the Second Book

of Horace Imitated,” 55

“On the Characters of Women,”

156, 182

The Rape of the Lock, 130

“Sapho to Phaon,” 133, 137, 138,

141–3, 151

Satires of Dr. John Donne, “Satire

II,” 117

pornography, 117–18, 249

Porter, Jane, 119, 187

Portland, William Henry

Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd

Duke of, 105, 178, 248

Pratt, Lynda, 188

Pratt, Samuel Jackson

as “Courtney Melmoth,” 113

friendship with MR, 31, 183, 187

likely author of continuation of

MR’s Memoirs, 10, 170, 187,

211

MR writes tributary poems to,

17, 252

writes tributary poems to MR,

227

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