I. Shakespeare and Goethe.
II. Milton's Youth.
III. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's.
IV. Dryden, and the Literature of the Restoration.
V. Dean Swift.
VI. Chatterton: A Story of the Year 1770.
VII. Wordsworth.
VIII. Scottish Influence on British Literature.
IX. Theories of Poetry.
X. Prose and Verse: De Quincey.
'Mr. Masson has succeeded in producing a series of criticisms in
relation to creative literature which are satisfactory as well as
subtile--which are not only ingenious, but which possess the rarer
recommendation of being usually just.' --THE TIMES.
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