Poetry, revisionism, repression -- Blake and revisionism -- Wordsworth and the scene of instruction -- Shelley and his precursors -- Keats: romance revisited -- Tennyson: in the shadow of Keats -- Browning: good moments and ruined quests -- Yeats, Gnosticism, and the sacred void -- Emerson and Whitman: the American sublime -- Wallace Stevens: the transcendental strain
