Table of Contents

The selving of Thomas Gray; William Cowper and the condition of England; "which way I fly" - Cowper's "The Castaway" and other poems; Wordsworth, Bunyan and the puritan mind; indeterminancy of meaning in "The Ancient Mariner"; Keats, politics and the idea of revolution; the Shelleyan psychodrama - the "dream of youth", Alastor, taking stock, taking wing - "Julian and Maddaio", Adonais; authoring the self - Byron's "Childe Harold" III and IV; Dorothea's awakening - a note on "Middlemarch"; Thomas Hardy and the forms of making - interpreting "Jude the Obscure".