I. The Background of Revolution, Repression, and Reform, 1789-1832 II. Romanticism III. William Blake. .. IV. William Wordsworth . V. Samuel Taylor Coleridge VI. Robert Southey, Walter Savage Landor, and Other Poets VII. Reviews and Magazines: 1802-1830; The Essayists. VIII. Gothic Romance and the Novel of Doctrine. IX. Jane Austen X. Sir Walter Scott . XI. Lord Byron XII. Percy Bysshe Shelley XIII. John Keats XIV. Thomas Hood, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, and Other Poets XV. The Drama in Decline. . XVI. The Novel between Scott and Dickens. XVII. The Background: 1832-1868. The Progress of Reform XVIII. The Religious Revival and Its Expression in Literature ... XIX. The Theory of Evolution and Its Repercussions XX. Thomas Carlyle 1 XXI. Philosophy, History, and Miscellaneous Prose. XXII. John Ruskin XXIII. Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Reade . XXIV. Thackeray and Trollope XXV. Other Novelists of the Mid-Century. XXVI. Alfred Tennyson XXVII. The Brownings. XXVIII. Matthew Arnold and Arthur Hugh Clough; Edward FitzGerald and James Thomson (HB.V.") Rossetti and His Circle William Morris Algernon Charles Swinburne The Background: The Victorian Decline (1868-19°1) and the Aftermath (1901-1939) George Meredith Thomas Hardy ... Aestheticism and "Decadence" The Novel: Naturalism and Romance XXXVII. The Irish Literary Renaissance XXXVIII. Modern Drama XXXIX. Other Late-Victorian Poets XL. The Modern Novel XLI. Poetry in the Twentieth Century. XLII. Anthropology; Travel; History; Criticism