[1] He had held the chair for the maximum period of ten years permitted by the original statute. For further particulars, see Thomas Hearne, Remarks and Collections, ed. C. E. Doble (Oxford, 1886), entries for 14 July and 27 July 1708.

[2] There is a translation by William Bowyer, assisted by William Clarke, entitled Lectures on Poetry (London, 1742).

[3] Comparaison des poÈmes d'HomÈre et de Virgile (Paris, ?1688).

[4] He is identified by the Twickenham editor as the "T—" of the line "T—s and T—the church and state gave o'er," in The Dunciad of 1728 II. 381, but was dropped from the Variorum in 1729. In the Warburton note of 1743, I.33, he may be alluded to in the gibe at "Professors."

[5] Notably in The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry (London, 1701) and The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (London, 1704).

[6] The Miltonic passage was added to the second edition (1685). The poem originally appeared the previous year.

[7] Ed. Carolus Ruaeus, i.e. Charles de la Rue (Paris, 1675).

[8] I have further discussed this point in "What God, What Mortal? The Aeneid and English Mock-Heroic," Arion 8 (1969), 359-79.