CONTENTS.PAGE[A DEFENCE OF POETRY]1[ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS]39[ON THE SYMPOSIUM]48[THE BANQUET]51[ION; OR, OF THE ILIAD]114[MENEXENUS; OR, THE FUNERAL ORATION]132[FRAGMENTS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO]136[ON A PASSAGE IN CRITO]145[THE ASSASSINS]147[ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH]167[ON LIFE]174[ON A FUTURE STATE]180[SPECULATIONS ON METAPHYSICS:—][The Mind]186[What Metaphysics are. Errors in the usual Methods of Considering them]189[Difficulty of Analysing the Human Mind]190[How the Analysis should be carried on]191[Catalogue of the Phenomena of Dreams, as connecting Sleeping and Waking]191[FRAGMENTS:—][Speculations on Morals:—][Plan of a Treatise on Morals]194[On the Nature of Virtue]196[Benevolence]197[Justice]201[Moral Science consists in considering the Difference, not the Resemblance, of Persons]204[GHOST STORIES]208[Fragment from Journal]215[LETTERS FROM ITALY:—][To Thomas Love Peacock]221[To the Same]223[To the Same]227[To the Same]228[To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne]229[To William Godwin]231[To Mrs. Shelley]233[To the Same]236[To the Same]239[To Thomas Love Peacock]241[To the Same]244[To the Same]249[To the Same]255[To the Same]259[To the Same]268[To the Same]277[To the Same]286[To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne]290[To Thomas Love Peacock]291[To Leigh Hunt]294[To Mrs. Gisborne]296[To Henry Reveley]299[To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne]301[To the Same]302[To Mrs. Gisborne]305[To Mr. John Gisborne]307[To Henry Reveley]309[To the Same]311[To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne]312[To Mr. John Gisborne]313[To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne]314[To the Same]314[To the Same]315[To the Same]317[To Mrs. Shelley]319[To the Same]321[To the Editor of the “Quarterly Review”]322[To Mr. John Gisborne]324[To Henry Reveley]325[To the Same]326[To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne]326[To Mr. John Gisborne]327[To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne]329[To the Same]329[To Mrs. Shelley]330[To the Same]331[To the Same]332[To the Same]334[To the Same]341[To Mrs. Shelley]342[To the Same]342[To Horatio Smith]347[To Mr. John Gisborne]350[To the Same]352[To ——]356[To Mrs. Shelley]358[To Horatio Smith]359[To ——]361[To Mrs. Williams]363[To Mrs. Shelley]363[MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND LETTERS:—][A Letter to Lord Ellenborough]369[Prince Alexy Haimatoff]387[THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SHELLEY]397[INDEX TO THE PROSE WORKS]405