The literary scene in 1815 -- Byron -- Shelley -- Keats -- Clare and the minor poets -- The Waverley romances -- Peacock -- John Galt and the minor writers of prose fiction -- Hazlitt -- Lamb -- De Quincey -- Miscellaneous prose -- History, biography and autobiography -- Interest in foreign literature and in earlier English literature -- The literary scene in 1832
Summary
Closely analyzes the structure, style, themes, and literary heritage of individual poets and prose writers of the Romantic period
