Preface
[pt. 1]. William Blake
Letter to the Revd Dr. Trusler (1799)
From Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses (1808)
[pt. 2]. William Wordsworth
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800)
Appendix to the Preface (1802)
[pt. 3]. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From Biographia Literaria (1817)
[pt. 4]. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron
From English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809)
From Letter to Miss Milbanke (1813)
From Letter to John Murray, Esq. (1821)
[pt. 5]. John Keats
Letters (1817-1818)
[pt. 6]. William Hazlitt
From "On wit and humor" (1819)
[pt. 7]. Thomas Love Peacock
"The four ages of poetry" (1820)
[pt. 8]. Percy Bysshe Shelley
A defense of poetry (1821)
[pt. 9]. John Stuart Mill
"What is poetry?" (1833)
[pt. 10]. John Ruskin
"Of the pathetic fallacy" (1840)
[pt. 11]. George Eliot
From The natural History of German Life (1856)
[pt. 12]. Matthew Arnold
Preface to Poems (1853)
From "Sweetness and light" (1873)
From "The study of poetry" (1880)
[pt. 13]. George Meredith
From On the Idea of Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit (1877)
[pt. 14]. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Lecture notes on poetry and verse (1873-1874)
Preface to Poems (1833)
[pt. 15]. Walter Pater
From Preface and Conclusion to Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)
[pt. 16]. Henry James
The Art of Fiction (1888)
[pt. 17]. William Butler Yeats
"The symbolism of poetry" (1900).