1. G. W. F. Hegel,Aesthetics. Lectures on Fine Art, trans. by T. M. Knox, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975), II, p. 1011.
2. Isobel Armstrong, ‘Hegel: The Time of Rhythm, the Time of Rhyme’,Thinking Verse, 1 (2011), 124–36 (p. 127).
3. Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Defence of Poetry’, inShelley’s Poetry and Prose, ed. by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat (New York: Norton, 1977), p. 484.
4. ‘Defence’, p. 492.
5. OED. As far as I am aware no-one has commented on this devaluation of the word; possible reasons may include the general philosophical demotion of the status of smell and a cultural forgetting of positive Catholic notions of the ‘odour of sanctity’.