CONTENTS.

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[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