CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Essentials of Great Poetry | [1] |
| The Feminine Note in English Poetry | [28] |
| Milton and Dante: A Comparison and a Contrast | [60] |
| Byron and Wordsworth | [78] |
| Dante’s Realistic Treatment of the Ideal | [139] |
| Dante’s Poetic Conception of Woman | [156] |
| Poetry and Pessimism | [170] |
| A Vindication of Tennyson | [197] |
| On the Relation of Literature to Politics | [218] |
| A Conversation with Shakespeare in the Elysian Fields | [241] |