Includes bibliographical references (pages 464-476) and index.
Part I: The will to value -- In pursuit of the ethical -- British Romanticism, Coleridge, and European moral tradition -- Part II: Agent, power, scene -- Blake: the poetry of violence -- The tragic Wordsworth -- De Quincey and Romantic decadence -- Part III: The pressure of reality -- Shelley and the poetry of life -- Hazlitt: common sense of a dissenter -- Keats and the ethics of immanence -- Byron: the world as glorious blunder -- The ethical bearing of literature.
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Ethics.
Romanticism.
English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.