NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION
This edition is substantially identical with the first; but it and its later impressions contain a few improvements in points of detail, and, thanks to criticisms by my brother, F. H. Bradley, I hope to have made my meaning clearer in some pages of the second lecture.
There was an oversight in the first edition which I regret. In adding the note on p. 247 I forgot that I had not referred to Professor Dowden in the lecture on “Shakespeare the Man.” In everything that I have written on Shakespeare I am indebted to Professor Dowden, and certainly not least in that lecture.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Poetry for Poetry’s Sake | [3] |
| The Sublime | [37] |
| Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy | [69] |
| Wordsworth | [99] |
| Shelley’s View of Poetry | [151] |
| The Long Poem in the Age of Wordsworth | [177] |
| The Letters of Keats | [209] |
| The Rejection of Falstaff | [247] |
| Shakespeare’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ | [279] |
| Shakespeare the Man | [311] |
| Shakespeare’s Theatre and Audience | [361] |
POETRY FOR POETRY’S SAKE