CONTENTS. -- The perfect critic. -- Imperfect critics: Swinburne as critic. A romantic aristocrat [George Wyndham] The local flavour. A note on the American critic. The French intelligence. -- Tradition and the individual talent. -- The possibility of a poetic drama. -- Ueripides and Professor Murray. -- "Rhetoric" and poetic drama. -- Notes in the blank verse of Christopher Marlowe. -- Hamlet and his problems. -- Ben Jonson. -- Phillip Massinger. -- Swinburne as poet. -- Blake. -- Dante