| Introduction | ix |
| The Perfect Critic | 1 |
| Imperfect Critics— | |
| Swinburne as Critic | 15 |
| A Romantic Aristocrat | 22 |
| The Local Flavour | 29 |
| A Note on the American Critic | 34 |
| The French Intelligence | 39 |
| Tradition and the Individual Talent | 42 |
| The Possibility of a Poetic Drama | 54 |
| Euripides and Professor Murray | 64 |
| Rhetoric and Poetic Drama | 71 |
| Notes on the Blank Verse of Christopher Marlowe | 78 |
| Hamlet and His Problems | 87 |
| Ben Jonson | 95 |
| Phillip Massinger | 112 |
| Swinburne as Poet | 131 |
| Blake | 137 |
| Dante | 144 |