FROM BLAKE TO BROWNING

BY

WILLIAM MACNEILE DIXON

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN

Methuen & Co.
18 BURY STREET, W.C.

LONDON

PREFACE,

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

POETRY AND ITS RELATION TO LIFE,

CHAPTER II.

AN ERA OF TRANSITION.-Thomson-Gray-Collins-Blake-

Cowper-Crabbe,

CHAPTER III.

THE SPIRIT OF POETRY IN REVOLT.-Burns-Byron-Elliott,.

CHAPTER IV.

NATURALISM AND SUPERNATURALISM IN POETRY.-Coleridge-

Wordsworth-Lamb-Bowles,

CHAPTER V.

NEO-CLASSICISM.-Keats-Landor-Leigh Hunt,

CHAPTER VI.

POETRY AND PATRIOTISM.-Moore-Campbell—Wolfe,

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