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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Plates""; ""Note on the Text""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""George Meredith: A Brief Chronology""; ""Introduction""; ""Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads""; ""Grandfather Bridgeman""; ""The Meeting""; ""Modern Love""; ""Roadside Philosophers""; ""Juggling Jerry""; ""The Old Chartist""; ""The Beggar�s Soliloquy""; ""The Patriot Engineer""; ""Poems and Ballads""; ""Cassandra""; ""The Young Usurper""; ""Margaret�s Bridal-Eve""; ""Marian""; ""The Head of Bran""; ""By Morning Twilight""

""Autumn Even-Song""""Unknown Fair Faces""; ""Phantasy""; ""Shemselnihar""; ""[A roar thro� the tall twin elm-trees]""; ""[When I would image her features]""; ""[I chafe at darkness in the night]""; ""By the Rosanna""; ""Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn""; ""The Doe: A Fragment (From “Wandering Willie�)""; ""Contexts""; ""CONTEMPORARY REACTIONS""; ""Unsigned Review, Parthenon (1862)""; ""R. H. Hutton, Spectator (1862)""; ""J. W. Marston, Athenaeum (1862)""; ""A. C. Swinburne, Spectator (1862)""; ""Frederick Maxse, Morning Post (1862)""

""From Unsigned Review, Westminster Review (1862)""""Unsigned Review, Saturday Review (1863)""; ""William Sharp, from Sonnets of This Century (1886)""; ""Arthur Symons, from Westminster Review (1887)""; ""From Unsigned Review, Travelers Record (1892)""; ""ADVICE MANUALS AND SOCIAL COMMENTARY""; ""Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Wives of England (1843)""; ""William Cobbett, from Advice to Young Men, and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life (1862)""; ""John Paget, from “The English Law of Divorce� (1856)""; ""John Ruskin, from Sesame and Lilies (1865)""

""Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Author�s Preface� (1883)""""Gerard Manley Hopkins, Letter on “Harry Ploughman� (1887)""; ""OTHER POETRY""; ""John Keats, from “Woman! when I behold thee fl ippant, vain ... � (1817) and “On the Sea� (1817)""; ""Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)""; ""Coventry Patmore, from The Angel in the House (1854�62)""; ""Charles Baudelaire, “Causerie� (1857)""; ""Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from Maud (1859)""; ""Christina Rossetti, from “Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets� (1881)""

""John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869)""""ON THE SENSES""; ""Alexander Bain, from The Senses and the Intellect (1855)""; ""A. B. Johnson, from The Physiology of the Senses (1856)""; ""George Wilson, from The Five Senses (1860)""; ""NINETEENTH-CENTURY POETICS""; ""Arthur Henry Hallam, from “On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry� (1831)""; ""Matthew Arnold, from “Preface� to Poems (1853)""; ""Gerald Massey, from “Poetry�The Spasmodists� (1858)""; ""Henry James, from “Charles Baudelaire� (1876)""