Volume 3 / Book 4 — BOOK IV.—MODERN LIFE
Henri Van Laun translation
BOOK IV.—MODERN LIFE
CHAPTER FIRST Ideas and Productions
Section I.—Rise of Democracy 43 Section II.—Robert Burns 48 Section III.—Conservative rule in England.—Cowper's Poetry 65 Section IV.—The Romantic School 72 Section V.—Philosophy Enters into Literature.—Wordsworth.—Shelley 87
CHAPTER SECOND Lord Byron
Section I.—His Life and Character 102 Section II.—The Style of Byron's Poetry 110 Section III.—Byron's Short Poems 117 Section IV.—Manfred 125 Section V.—What Byron's Contemporaries Thought of Him.—His Morals 134 Section VI.—The Malady of the Age 148