Contents

Introduction[ix]
The Perfect Critic[1]
Imperfect Critics—
Swinburne as Critic[15]
A Romantic Aristocrat[22]
The Local Flavour[29]
A Note on the American Critic[34]
The French Intelligence[39]
Tradition and the Individual Talent[42]
The Possibility of a Poetic Drama[54]
Euripides and Professor Murray[64]
Rhetoric and Poetic Drama[71]
Notes on the Blank Verse of Christopher Marlowe[78]
Hamlet and His Problems[87]
Ben Jonson[95]
Phillip Massinger[112]
Swinburne as Poet[131]
Blake[137]
Dante[144]