| Page |
| William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 |
| Poetry and Poetic Diction. (1800) | 1 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834 |
| Wordsworth’s Theory of Diction. (1817) | 40 |
| Metrical Composition. (1817) | 57 |
| William Blake, 1757-1827 |
| The Canterbury Pilgrims. (1809) | 85 |
| Charles Lamb, 1775-1834 |
| On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation. (1811) | 95 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822 |
| A Defence of Poetry. (1821) | 120 |
| William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 |
| My First Acquaintance with Poets. (1823) | 164 |
| John Keble, 1792-1866 |
| Sacred Poetry. (1825) | 191 |
| John Henry Newman, 1801-1890 |
| Poetry with reference to Aristotle’s Poetics. (1829) | 223 |
| Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881 |
| The Hero as Poet. Dante; Shakespeare. (1840) | 254 |
| James Henry Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859 |
| An Answer to the Question: What is Poetry? (1844) | 300 |
| Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888 |
| The Choice of Subjects in Poetry. (1853) | 356 |
| John Ruskin, 1819-1900 |
| Of the Pathetic Fallacy. (1856) | 378 |
| John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873 |
| Thoughts on Poetry and its Varieties. (1833, revised 1859) | 398 |
| Walter Bagehot, 1826-1877 |
| Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate and Grotesque Art in English Poetry. (1864) | 430 |
| Walter Horatio Pater, 1839-1894 |
| Coleridge’s Writings. (1866) | 492 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 |
| Shakespeare; or, the Poet. (1850) | 535 |
| James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 |
| Wordsworth. (1875) | 558 |
