Chapter I: Common Characteristics of the Period

II. NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS
III. THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND
IV. THE BEGINNINGS OF NATURALISM
V. STRENGTH AND SINCERITY OF THE LOVE OF NATURE
VI. RURAL LIFE AND ITS POETRY
VII. NATURALISTIC ROMANTICISM
VIII. THE LAKE SCHOOL'S CONCEPTION OF LIBERTY
IX. THE LAKE SCHOOL'S ORIENTAL ROMANTICISM
X. HISTORICAL NATURALISM
XI. ALL-EMBRACING SENSUOUSNESS
XII. THE POETRY OF IRISH OPPOSITION AND REVOLT
XIII. EROTIC LYRIC POETRY
XIV. THE BRITISH SPIRIT OF FREEDOM
XV. REPUBLICAN HUMANISM
XVI. RADICAL NATURALISM
XVII. BYRON: THE PASSIONATE PERSONALITY
XVIII. BYRON: THE PASSIONATE PERSONALITY--(CONTINUED)
XIX. BYRON: HIS SELF-ABSORPTION
XX. BYRON: THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT
XXI. COMIC AND TRAGIC REALISM
XXII. CULMINATION OF NATURALISM
XXIII. BYRON'S DEATH
XXIV. CONCLUSION

LIST OF PORTRAITS

WORDSWORTH
COLERIDGE
SCOTT
KEATS
MOORE
SHELLEY
BYRON

"_I am as a spirit who has dwelt_
_Within his heart of hearts; and I have felt_
_His feelings, and have thought his thoughts, and known_
_The inmost converse of his soul, the tone_
_Unheard but in the silence of his blood,_
_When all the pulses in their multitude_
_Image the trembling calm of summer seas._
_I have unlocked the golden melodies_
_Of his deep soul as with a master-key,_
_And loosened them, and bathed myself therein--_
_Even as an eagle in a thunder-mist_
_Clothing his wings with lightning_."
--SHELLEY (Fragment).