BOOK IV.--MODERN LIFE

CHAPTER FIRST Ideas and Productions

Section I.--Rise of Democracy Section II.--Robert Burns Section III.--Conservative rule in England.--Cowper's Poetry Section IV.--The Romantic School Section V.--Philosophy Enters into Literature.--Wordsworth.--Shelley

CHAPTER SECOND Lord Byron

Section I.--His Life and Character Section II.--The Style of Byron's Poetry Section III.--Byron's Short Poems Section IV.--Manfred Section V.--What Byron's Contemporaries Thought of Him.--His Morals Section VI.--The Malady of the Age

CHAPTER THIRD The Past and Present

_Part I.--The Past_ Section I.--The Saxon Invasion--The Norman Conquest Section II.--Formative Periods Section III.--The Broadening of Ideas

_Part II.--The Present_ Section I.--Effects of the Saxon Invasion and the Norman Conquest Section II.--English Commerce and Industry Section III.--Agriculture Section IV.--English Society.--Philosophy.--Religion Section V.--What Forces Have Produced the Present Civilization