Makers of Modern Poetry

“The present book will henceforth be known therefore as “The Makers of Modern Poetry,” and the generic title of “The Makers of Modern English” will appear on the title-page of each volume. This is not so much an after-thought as the fulfilment of my first design, which was to write a popular guide to the great masters of modern literature, whether poets or prose-writers. The close of the century seems appropriate for the fulfilment of this long-delayed design. One more volume, on “The Makers of Modern Fiction,” I hope yet to write. If I am able to accomplish this, my work, such as it is, in criticism will be closed ; and for the complete trilogy the old title of “The Makers of Modern English” will not be inappropriate”.
W. J DAWSON,
London : August, 1899

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CONTENTS.
I. INTRODUCTORY
II. THE INTERVAL BEFORE THE DAWN
III. ROBERT BURNS
IV. LORD BYRON
V. SHELLEY
VI. JOHN KEATS
VII. SIR WALTER SCOTT
VIII. COLERIDGE
IX. ROBERT SOUTHEY
X. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
XI. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN WORDSWORTH’S LIFE AND HIS POETRY
XII. SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF WORDSWORTH’S POETRY
XIII. WORDSWORTH’S VIEW OF NATURE AND MAN
XIV. WORDSWORTH’S PATRIOTIC AND POLITICAL POEMS
XV. WORDSWORTH’S PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
XVI. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH — CONCLUDING SURVEY
XVII. THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT IN POETRY. THOMAS HOOD AND MRS. BROWNING
XVIII. LORD TENNYSON. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
XIX. TENNYSON’S TREATMENT OF NATURE
XX. TENNYSON : LOVE AND WOMAN
XXI. TENNYSON’S VIEW OF LIFE AND SOCIETY
XXII. TENNYSON AND POLITICS
XXIII. IDYLLS AND THE “IDYLLS OF THE KING”
XXIV. TENNYSON AS A RELIGIOUS POET
XXV. TENNYSON’S “IN MEMORIAM”
XXVI. ROBERT BROWNING
XXVII. BROWNING’S PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
XXVIII. THE SPIRIT OF BROWNING’S RELIGION
XXIX. BROWNING’S ATTITUDE TO CHRISTIANITY
XXX. BROWNING’S SIGNIFICANCE IN LITERATURE
XXXI. ROBERT BROWNING — CONCLUDING SURVEY
XXXII. MATTHEW ARNOLD
XXXIII. DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
XXXIV. ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
XXXV. WILLIAM MORRIS
XXXVI. CONCLUDING SURVEY