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placidly, calmly, quietly.
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memory-jogging, calling to mind; reminding.
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stage effects, stage sceneries and tricks intended to produce certain impressions.
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“King Lear” or “Hamlet,” both plays by Shakespeare, both tragedies.
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cynicism, sneering at goodness and given to tearing off the veil from human weakness; mental state, opinion, or conduct of a person who believes that human conduct is directed, either consciously or unconsciously, wholly by self-interest or serf-indulgence.
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tedious, tiresomely long and slow and dull.
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popular clatter, noisy talk of the multitude.
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Keats, John （1795-1821）, English romantic poet.
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airy manner, loose irresponsible way; reasoning in a superficial way.
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beauty is truth, truth beauty, from Keats’s “Ode to the Grecian Urn” （1820） 11, 49-50.
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Hazlitt, William （1778-1830）, English critic and miscellaneous writer.
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Sainte Beuve, Charles Augustin （1804-1869）, French literary critic.
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The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy —These are the opening lines of “The Song of the Happy Shepherd” by William Butler Yeats （1865-1939）, Irish poet and author.
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The woods of Arcady . Arcady is another spelling for Arcadia, a Utopia of poetical simplicity and innocence, named after a pastoral and mountainous district of the Peloponnesus, in Greece, a district fabled to be the idyllic. By the four words “The woods of Arcady” is meant poetry and poetic inspiration, because within the forests of Arcadia is to be had such inspiration.
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their antique joy, the happiness which they （the woods of Arcady） experienced in olden times. Yeats is lamenting the dearth, the lack, of good poetry to-day; he even claims that people do not derive any happiness from poetry any more.
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catholicity, liberality and universality of sentiment.
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one narrow channel, a passage that is not wide; hence, a mind or disposition that is not broad, that confines itself to very narrow interests.
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vitalize, endow with life or vitality; give life to.
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Crashaw, Richard （1613? -1649）, English poet.
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predilections, previous likings.
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put the cart before the horse, do things in the reverse order; take effect for cause.
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hot interest, ardent, strong interest.
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judiciously, sensibly, prudently.
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Putney, a parish of Wandsworth borough, in the environs of London, England.
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Walham Green, in Fulham, north of Putney and across the river Thames, on the direct route from the heart of London to Putney.
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