CHAPTER XXXVII.

WORDSWORTH, AND THE LAKE SCHOOL.

The New School--William Wordsworth--Poetical Canons--The Excursion and Sonnets--An Estimate--Robert Southey--His Writings--Historical Value--S. T. Coleridge--Early Life--His Helplessness--Hartley and H. N. Coleridge 414

THE REACTION IN POETRY.

Alfred Tennyson--Early Works--The Princess--Idyls of the King--Elizabeth B. Browning--Aurora Leigh--Her Faults--Robert Browning--Other Poets 428

THE LATER HISTORIANS.

New Materials--George Grote--History of Greece--Lord Macaulay--History of England--Its Faults--Thomas Carlyle--Life of Frederick II.--Other Historians 439