- How to go about understanding the Victorian age
- Macaulay's “noble enduring quality in our literature” — his passion for history
- Defends Elizabeth Barrett Browning's greatness
- Thomas Hood — “the last great man who really employed the pun”
- Thomas Carlyle as Seer
- Carlyle's dangerous optmism
- The sentences of Ruskin, “an artist in prose”
- The two streams of inspiration that flow from Ruskin
- Carlyle's continuing influence
- Comparing Trollope's Realism to that of Dickens and Thackeray
- “It may seem strange to say that Thackeray did not know enough of the world”
- “being abruptly original in a corner”: MacDonald, Carroll, and Lear
- Dickens, Cobbett, and “the ordinary man”
- Swinburne's style “is a sort of fighting and profane parody of the Old Testament”
- Style and Idea in Robert Louis Stevenson
Last modified 31 December 2010