Early Writings-His Humour and Cheerful Philosophy-Elia-Death in 1834-De
Quincey-His Career and Characteristics-The Opium Eater-His Eccentricities—
Hazlitt--Friendship with Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Lambs-His Essays-
Landor-English Romanticism-His Passion and Self-sufficiency-The Imaginary
Conversations - A Unique Position in Literature-The Historians-Mitford-Sharon
Turner-Lingard-Sir William Napier Hallam-Constitutional History of England-
The Novelists-Mary Brunton-Susan Ferrier-Jane Porter-Lockhart-Maturin—
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley-Galt-Moore-Thomas Hope-Lytton-Disraeli-
Peacock-Poetry at the Close of the Century-Hood-Joanna Baillie-Hartley
Coleridge-Praed-Beddoes-Horne
Pp. 107-199
THE EARLY VICTORIAN AGE-1840-1870
Literature in England at the Accession of Queen Victoria-Tennyson-The peculiar Magic
of his Style His Early Life-Idylls of the King-In Memoriam-His other Poetry-His
Dramatic Productions-Mrs. Browning-Her Style and Work-Marriage with Robert
Browning-Her Life Abroad-Sonnets from the Portuguese-Robert Browning-His
Position among the great Poets-Pauline-Paracelsus-Pippa Passes-The Ring and the
Book-His Personality-Reason and Enthusiasm-Henry Taylor-Philip James Bailey
-Barry Cornwall - Monckton Milnes - Keble - Dickens - His Genius - Power of
Invention and Boundless Merriment-His Early Struggles-The Pickwick Papers-His
wonderful Energy and Vitality-The Novelists-Lever-Marryat-Ainsworth-Jerrold
-Wilkie Collins-Carlyle-Characteristics of the Man and of his Work-Peculiarities
of his Style Sartor Resartus—His Marriage-The French Revolution-Hero Worship-
Macaulay-Lays of Ancient Rome-The History of England-Newman-The Oxford Move-
ment-Borrow-Thackeray-Fielding's Influence-Barry Lyndon-Vanity Fair-Esmond
-Thackeray's lovable Character-His Humour-The Bröntes Shirley-Jane Eyre -
Mrs. Gaskell-Cranford-Ruskin-The Perfection of his Style Modern Painters-Seven
Lamps of Architecture-Stones of Venice-His Essays and minor Works-Fors Clavigera—
His personal Eminence-Mill-Grote-Darwin-The Origin of Species-The Descent of Man
Pp. 200-302
THE AGE OF TENNYSON, 1870-1900
Tennyson's and Browning's Influence-Matthew Arnold as a poet and as a prose writer-
George Eliot, the most prominent novelist in England between Dickens and Mr. George
Meredith-Adam Bede-The Mill on the Floss-Her Sympathetic Nature-George Henry
Lewes The Trollopes-Charles Reade The Kingsleys-Stanley-The Historians—
Froude-Freeman-J. R. Green-Stubbs-Gardiner-Sir John Seeley-The Philoso-
phers-Mr. Herbert Spencer-T. H. Green-Sidgwick-Martineau-Tyndall-Huxley
-The Poetic Revival-Fitzgerald - Omar Khayyam-D. G. Rossetti - Christina
Rossetti-William Morris-The Critics-Walter Pater-John Addington Symonds-
R. L. Stevenson