Preface
I. Approach to Victorian Poetry: A Romantic Reformulation
1. Foreword: Victorian and Romantic
2. The Center of Vision: Coleridge and Wordsworth
3. Blake
4. The Second Generation: Byron
5. Shelley
6. Keats
7. Carlyle
8. Summary: Assertion and Decline
II. Arnold
1. Background
2. Central Poems of Arnold
3. Arnold and the Romantics
4. The Solid Footing: A Qualification
5. Arnold: A Summary
III. Browning
1. Foreword
2. Browning's Religious Poems
3. Poems of Fame and Love
4. Sisyphus Lost: A Summary
IV. Tennyson
1. Tennyson and Reputation
2. Quintessential Poems
3. Tennyson the Romantic
4. Conflict in Metaphor
5. Style as Outlook
6. In Memoriam
7. Tennyson: A Summary
V. Afterword
1. The Romantic Approach: Some Possibilities
2. After the Victorians
Textual Notes
Index