THE GREAT ROMANTICS AND THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONThe French Revolution 375
An Advance Guard 380
Robert Burns 381
William Blake 392
The Spirit of 1789 407
William Wordsworth 407
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 426
William Hazlitt 457
Against the Unholy Alliance 492
Lord Byron 493
Percy Bysshe Shelley 516
John Keats 554
The Last of the Great Romantics 554
Charles Lamb 579
THE VICTORIAN AGE AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONFrom the Romantics to the Victorians 617
Industrial England and Its Poetry 628
Robert Browning 653
Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition 674
The Victorian Novelists 689
Charles Dickens 693
George Eliot 752
Thomas Huxley and Human Progress 798
THE END OF AN EPOCHIf Winter Comes 834
George Bernard Shaw 875
Bibliography 927
Index 929