CRITICAL
MISCELLANIES

JOHN MORLEY

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1904

Byron's influence in Europe	[203]
In England	[204]
Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life	[208]
Function of synthetic criticism	[210]
Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare	[212]
Contrasted with Shelley in this respect	[213]
Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature	[218]
Revolutionary sentimentalism	[220]
And revolutionary commonplace in Byron	[222]
Byron's reasonableness	[223]
Size and difficulties of his subject	[224]
His mastery of it	[224]
The reflection of Danton in Byron	[230]
The reactionary influence upon him	[232]
Origin of his apparent cynicism	[234]
His want of positive knowledge	[235]
Æsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity	[236]
Significance of his dramatic predilections	[240]
His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics	[241]
Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment	[242]
His public career better than one side of his creed	[245]
Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature	[246]
His ethical poverty	[249]
Conclusion	[250]