CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | [1] |
| Depression after the Napoleonic struggle—Social problems—Spread of democracy— Popular education—Rise of periodical literature—Physical science—Tractarianism— Pre-Raphaelitism. | |
| [Chapter I.] Thomas Carlyle | [12] |
| [Chapter II.] Poetry from 1830 to 1850. The Greater Poets: Tennyson and Browning | [36] |
| Introduction—Tennyson’s first period—Browning’s first period | |
| [Chapter III.] The Minor Poets, 1830 to 1850 | [52] |
| Mrs. Hemans and L. E. Landon—Charles Tennyson Turner—Thomas Hood—Laman Blanchard—Praed—Lord Houghton—R. H. Barham—Hartley Coleridge—Sara Coleridge—William Motherwell—Henry Taylor—Philip James Bailey—R. H. Horne— William Barnes—Mangan—Whitehead—Wade—Ebenezer Jones. | |
| [Chapter IV.] The Earlier Fiction | [68] |
| Introduction—Maginn—Lord Lytton—Disraeli—Ainsworth—G. P. R. James—Marryat— Michael Scott—Warren. | |
| [Chapter V.] Fiction: The Intermediate Period | [82] |
| Dickens—Thackeray—The Brontës—Mrs. Gaskell. | |
| [Chapter VI.] The Historians and Biographers | [109] |
| Introduction—Macaulay—Thomas Arnold—Thirlwall—Grote —Milman—Finlay— Neale—Merivale—Froude—Kinglake —Buckle—Maine—Lockhart—Stanley—Minor Historians and Biographers. | |
| [Chapter VII.] Theology and Philosophy | [144] |
| Keble—Newman—Pusey—Wilberforce—Maurice—F. W. Robertson—Mark Pattison— Jowett—Mill—N. W. Senior—J. E. Cairnes—Whewell—Sir W. Hamilton—Ferrier— Mansel—Harriet Martineau—G. H. Lewes—Sir G. Cornewall Lewis—Herbert Spencer. | |
| [Chapter VIII.] Science | [175] |
| Introduction—Lyell—Hugh Miller—Robert Chambers—Darwin—A. R. Wallace. | |
| [Chapter IX.] Criticism, Scholarship, and Miscellaneous Prose | [191] |
| Introduction—J. P. Collier—Mrs. Jameson—J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps—Helps—Ruskin— Matthew Arnold—Dr. John Brown—Rands—George Borrow. | |
| [Chapter X.] Poetry From 1850 To 1870: the Intellectual Movement | [213] |
| Introduction—Matthew Arnold—Clough—Tennyson—Robert Browning—E. B. Browning—Edward FitzGerald. | |
| [Chapter XI.] Poetry From 1850 To 1870: the Pre-Raphaelites; The Spasmodic School; Minor Poets | [240] |
| D. G. Rossetti—Christina Rossetti—W. E. Aytoun—Dobell—Alexander Smith—Coventry Patmore—‘Owen Meredith’—Lord de Tabley—William Morris—Minor Poets. | |
| [Chapter XII.] The Later Fiction | [262] |
| Introduction—George Eliot—Mrs. Henry Wood—D. M. Craik—Charles Kingsley—Anthony Trollope—James Grant—Whyte-Melville—Wilkie Collins—G. A. Lawrence—Charles Reade— Conclusion. | |
| Chronological Table | [279] |
| Alphabetical List of Writers | [289] |
| Index | [295] |
THE AGE OF TENNYSON.