ENGLISH AND FRENCH POETRY.
The subject grouped round Tennyson and Hugo-Tennyson in
1850-Characteristics of English nineteenth-century poetry
as shown in him- His work in the period - Maud - The
Idylls-The Ballads - Additional characteristics of these
and others- Browning - His particular line of develop-
ment-Its manifestations-Men and Women - The 1863
Collection - Dramatis Persona -The Ring and the Book,
and its followers - Mrs Browning - Apparent Divergencies
-The Spasmodics - Matthew Arnold-"Pre-Raphaelite"
poetry-Rossetti, Morris, and Swinburne-Their character-
istics, especially metrical-Their school as yet unsucceeded
-Other principal figures-Christina Rossetti, Thomson,
O'Shaughnessy-Others: minor and not so minor-Lighter
poetry-French poetry: Hugo-The shock of circumstance
- Its result in the Châtiments, the Contemplations, and
the Légende The magic of Hugo's style-Other and later
work - His virtue-The "Companions": Vigny, Musset,
Lamartine, Gautier-Gérard de Nerval-Laprade- Leconte
de Lisle Banville - Baudelaire - The Parnassiens and
their ramifications - The second Parnasse - The third
Verlaine-Innovations in prosody-Note on Provençal Re-