Chapter I The Poet and His Age

Chapter II Diction in English Poetry

Chapter III The Problems of the Victorians

Chapter IV Tennyson’s Diction

Chapter V Browning’s Diction

Chapter VI Tennyson’s Influence—The Diction of Arnold, Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne

Chapter VII Browning’s Influence—R. H. Horne—Alfred Domett—T. E. Brown—Coventry Patmore

Chapter VIII Conclusion of Part I

Chapter I Intellectual Fashions

Chapter II Subjective and Objective Poetry—Narrative Poetry—Macaulay—Morris—Poetic Drama

Chapter III “The Idylls of the King”—Tennyson’s Critics—His Method—A Debatable Element in Tennyson’s Work—Moral Judgment in Poetry—Tennyson’s Public Authority

Chapter IV The Range of Subject Matter in Victorian Poetry—The Occasional Element—Mrs. Browning—Christina Rossetti—FitzGerald—Spiritual Ecstasy

Chapter V Love Poetry and the Victorian Use of Nature

Chapter VI Conclusion