ch. 1. Common characteristics of the period -- ch. 2. National characteristics -- ch. 3. The political background -- ch. 4. The beginning of naturalism -- ch. 5. Strength and sincerity of the love of nature -- ch. 6. Rural life and its poetry -- ch. 7. Naturalistic romanticism -- ch. 8. The Lake School's conception of liberty -- ch. 9. The Lake School's Oriental romanticism -- ch. 10. Historical naturalism -- ch. 11. All-embracing sensuousness -- ch. 12. The poetry of Irish opposition and revolt -- ch. 13. Erotic lyric poetry -- ch. 14. The British spirit of freedom -- ch. 15. Republican humanism -- ch. 16. Radical naturalism -- ch. 17. Byron: the passionate personality -- ch. 18. Byron: the passionate personality -(continued) -- ch. 19. Byron: his self-absorption -- ch. 20. Byron: the revolutionary spirit -- ch. 21. Comic and tragic realism -- ch. 22. Culmination of naturalism -- ch. 23. Byron's death -- ch. 24. Conclusion