Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Credits xv
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. Introduction xix
7. On the Eighteenth Century
8. 1. The Young Boswell 3
9. 2. Towards Defining an Age of Sensibility 7
10. 3. Nature Methodized 16
11. 4. Varieties of Eighteenth-Century Sensibility 24
12. On Romanticism
13. 5. CBC Goethe Salute 41
14. 6. Long Sequacious Notes 43
15. 7. Lord Byron 50
16. 8. Foreword to Romanticism Reconsidered 72
17. 9. The Drunken Boat: The Revolutionary Element in Romanticism 75
18. 10. A Study of English Romanticism 92
19. 11. John Keats 206
20. 12. Kathleen Hazel Coburn 215
21. 13. How It Was 218
22. 14. In the Earth, or in the Air? 219
23. On the Nineteenth Century
24. 15. Review of Patience and The Silver Box 229
25. 16. Review of H.M.S. Pinafore 233
26. 17. Iolanthe 236
27. 18. Review of lolanthe 237
28. 19. Review of Bradbrook's Ibsen the Norwegian 239
29. 20. James, Le Fanu, and Morris 240
30. 21. An Important Influence 241
31. 22. Joan Evans's John Ruskin 242
32. 23. Emily Dickinson 245
33. 24. The Problem of Spiritual Authority in the Nineteenth Century 271
34. 25. Dickens and the Comedy of Humours 287
35. 26. The Meeting of Past and Future in William Morris 309
36. 27. The World as Music and Idea in Wagner's Parsifal 326
37. 28. Some Reflections on Life and Habit 341
38. Notes 355
39. Emendations 383
40. Index 385