Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Prefatory Note VII
4. I. Introduction 1
5. II. Richardson’s Novels and Their Influence 6
6. III. Thackeray on the Eighteenth-Century Humourist as Hero 47
7. IV. Wordsworth’s Patriotic Poems and Their Significance To- Day 60
8. V. Edmund Kean in His Heroic Parts 85
9. VI. Robert Browning’s Paracelsvs, 1835–1935 122
10. VII. Elizabeth Barrett Browning : In Her Verse and Her Prose 145
11. VIII. Arthur Henry Hallam and in Memoriam 192
12. IX. Tennyson and the Arthurian Legend 210
13. X. Matthew Arnold in His Lyric Verse 230
14. XI. Sir Arthur Pinero: Dramatist and Stage–Chronicler 250
15. Index 281