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Coppee, Henry

"English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction"


THE NEW ROMANTIC POETRY: SCOTT.
Walter Scott--Translations and Minstrelsy--The Lay of the Last
Minstrel--Other Poems--The Waverley Novels--Particular
Mention--Pecuniary Troubles--His Manly Purpose--Powers
Overtasked--Fruitless Journey--Return and Death--His Fame

CHAPTER XXXV.
THE NEW ROMANTIC POETRY: BYRON AND MOORE.
Early Life of Byron--Childe Harold and Eastern Tales--Unhappy
Marriage--Philhellenism and Death--Estimate of his Poetry--Thomas
Moore--Anacreon--Later Fortunes--Lalla Rookh--His Diary--His Rank as
Poet

CHAPTER XXXVI.
THE NEW ROMANTIC POETRY (CONTINUED).
Robert Burns--His Poems--His Career--George Crabbe--Thomas
Campbell--Samuel Rogers--P. B. Shelley--John Keats--Other Writers

CHAPTER XXXVII.
WORDSWORTH, AND THE LAKE SCHOOL.
The New School--William Wordsworth--Poetical Canons--The Excursion and
Sonnets--An Estimate--Robert Southey--His Writings--Historical
Value--S. T. Coleridge--Early Life--His Helplessness--Hartley and H.


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