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 384


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 397


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. N.
Coleridge 414


CHAPTER XXXVIII.

THE REACTION IN POETRY.

Alfred Tennyson--Early Works--The Princess--Idyls of the
King--Elizabeth B. Browning--Aurora Leigh--Her Faults--Robert