Contents


Chapter One Love…1
William Shakespeare…2
Robert Burns…4
Oscar Wilde…6
William Butler Yeats…13
David Herbert Lawrence…16

Chapter Two Divinity and Secularity…29
John Donne…30
John Milton…34
William Blake…37
Bible…40

Chapter Three Experience and Growth…43
Daniel Defoe…44
Charles Dickens…54
James Joyce…68

Chapter Four Human Race and Natural World…74
William Wordsworth…76
Percy Bysshe Shelley…79
John Keats…84
Robert Louis Stevenson…88
Raymond Williams…93

Chapter Five Faith and Skepticism…101
William Shakespeare…103
William Makepeace Thackeray…105
Matthew Arnold…116
Thomas Hardy…119

Chapter Six Female Individuality and Fulfillment…123
Geoffrey Chaucer…124
Jane Austen…128
Charlotte Bront?…138
Virginia Woolf…149

Chapter Seven Mythology and Reality…155
Alfred Tennyson…156
George Bernard Shaw…160
Wystan Hugh Auden…171

Chapter Eight Civilization and Alienation…175
Joseph Conrad…176
William Golding…183
Thomas Stearns Eliot…191
Harold Pinter…196