Preface 9
Rabelais 25
Dante 35
Shakespeare 55
El Greco 75
Milton 87
Charles Lamb 105
Dickens 119
Goethe 135
Matthew Arnold 153
Shelley 169
Keats 183
Nietzsche 197
Thomas Hardy 213
Walter Pater 227
Dostoievsky 241
Edgar Allen Poe 263
Walt Whitman 281
Conclusion 293