Table of Contents:
  • The Victorian imagination: a nonpolemical introduction
  • Past and present as literary experience: an essay in the epistemological imagination
  • The Tennysonian imagination
  • Tennysonian madness: mighty collisions in the imagination
  • Enlarging the "miniature epic": the panic subtext in Tennyson's ¿none
  • Tennyson's The lotus-eaters: emblem of a new poetry
  • In defense of Locksley Hall
  • Tennyson's function of poetry at the present time: a parabolic reading of The princess
  • In memoriam in aesthetic context
  • Tennyson's Maud: new critical perspectives
  • The poetry of Swinburne: a essay in critical reenforcement
  • Marius the Epicurean: beyond Victorianism
  • Deja vu inverted: the imminent future in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean
  • The dark space illumined: a reading of Hardy's "Poems of 1912-13"
  • Thomas Hardy's "chronicle-piece" in "play-shape": an essay in literary conceptualization
  • "The thing signified" by The Dynasts: a speculation
  • Thomas Hardy's illusion of letters: narrative consciousness as imaginative style in The Dynasts, Tess, and Jude.