Alice Meynell. The poet of light. Poetry, old and new. The poetry of Emerson. The poetry of W. E. Henley. The poems of Austin Dobson. Stevenson. Some aspects of modern poetry. Tennyson and some recent critics. The spirit of Touchstone. Shakespeare and the sea. Swinburne. Some Cambridge poets and poetry. The nature poet of the eighteenth century. Wordsworth. Acceptances. Some characteristics of modern literature