CHAPTER I
Ancestry—Parents—Boyhood—Influence of Shelley—Pauline
CHAPTER II
Visit to Russia—Paracelsus—His failures and attainments—Sordello, a companion poem—Its obscurity—Imaginative qualities—The history of a soul
CHAPTER III
New acquaintances—Hatcham—Macready—Strafford—Venice—Bells and Promegranates—A Blot on the 'Scutcheon—Characters of passion—Characters of intellect
CHAPTER IV