CHAPTER VI

THE SECOND POETICAL PERIOD

Tennyson--Mr. and Mrs. Browning--Matthew Arnold--The Præ-Raphaelite Movement--Rossetti--Miss Rossetti--O'Shaughnessy--Thomson--Minor Poets--Lord Houghton--Aytoun--The Spasmodics--Minor Poets--Clough--Locker--The Earl of Lytton--Humorous Verse-Writers--Poetesses 253

## CHAPTER VII THE NOVEL SINCE 1850

Changes in the Novel--Miss Brontë--George Eliot--Charles Kingsley--The Trollopes--Reade--Minor Novelists--Stevenson 317

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