CONTENTS

I.The Book of Books[1]
II.Poetry in the Psalms[33]
III.The Good Enchantment of Dickens[63]
IV.Thackeray and Real Men[103]
V.George Eliot and Real Women[131]
VI.The Poet of Immortal Youth (Keats)[165]
VII.The Recovery of Joy (Wordsworth)[189]
VIII.“The Glory of the Imperfect” (Browning)[233]
IX.A Quaint Comrade by Quiet Streams (Walton)[289]
X.A Sturdy Believer (Samuel Johnson)[307]
XI.A Puritan Plus Poetry (Emerson)[333]
XII.An Adventurer in a Velvet Jacket (Stevenson)[357]