CONTENTS
[BOOK III.—THE CLASSIC AGE]
[(Continued)]
[CHAPTER SEVENTH]
[The Poets]
[Section I.—The Domination of the Classical Spirit] 3
[Section II.—Alexander Pope.—His Education and Mode of Life] 5
[Section III.—Eloisa to Abelard.—The Rape of the Lock.—The Dunciad] 10
[Section IV.—Pope's Descriptive Talent.—His Didactic Poems] 19
[Section V.—The Poets Prior, Gay, and Thomson] 28
[Section VI.—The Beginnings of the Modern Age] 34
[BOOK IV.—MODERN LIFE]
[CHAPTER FIRST]
[Ideas and Productions]
[Section I.—Rise of Democracy] 43
[Section II.—Robert Burns] 48
[Section III.—Conservative rule in England.—Cowper's Poetry] 65
[Section IV.—The Romantic School] 72
[Section V.—Philosophy Enters into Literature.—Wordsworth.—Shelley] 87
[CHAPTER SECOND]
[Lord Byron]
[Section I.—His Life and Character] 102
[Section II.—The Style of Byron's Poetry] 110
[Section III.—Byron's Short Poems] 117
[Section IV.—Manfred] 125
[Section V.—What Byron's Contemporaries Thought of Him.—His Morals] 134
[Section VI.—The Malady of the Age] 148