Table of Contents:
  • The tale and the teller
  • Novelists and near-novelists
  • Harriett Mozley
  • The heir of Redclyffe
  • - Trollope's style
  • The George Eliot letters I, II, III
  • Tennyson's serial poem
  • A word for Browning
  • Clough's Bothie
  • Clough : thought and action
  • Matthew Arnold on our time
  • 'Yes, in the sea of life'
  • Rugby 1850 : Arnold, Clough, Walrond and In memoriam
  • Arnold : the lecturer and journalist
  • Swinburne
  • Matthew Arnold and Carlyle
  • Newman : the writer
  • Newman : thought and action
  • Newman in his letters
  • Donne's poetry in the nineteenth century
  • The Victorian frame of mind
  • Writers and readers in 1851.