Includes Biographical notes and Index
I. Early years of the reign: (transition period) Distinctive Poets and Dramatists -- Poets of quality; The roisterers; Meditative Poets; English song writers; Songs and balladry of Scotland; Irish minstrelsy; "The oaten flute"; Poets of the new day; The rhapsodists; Early hymnody -- II. The Victorian Epoch:(Period of Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, Rossetti, and Swinburne); Composite idyllic school; Balladists and lyrists; Various Distinctive poets; Poets of the renaissance; Dramatists and playwrights; Elegantiae; "The land of wonder-wander" -- III. Close of the Era: (Intermediary period); Recent poets of Great Britain -- IV. Colonial Poets: (India-Australisia-Dominion of Canada); Idia; Australasia; Dominion of Canada
selection illustrating the editor's critical review of British poetry in the reign of Victoria
