Vol. I. 1. William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 (Poetry and poetic diction (1800)). 2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834 (Wordsworth's theory of diction (1817)) Metrical composition (1817)). 3. William Blake, 1757-1827 (The Canterbury Pilgrims (1809)). 4. Charles Lamb, 1775-1834 (On the tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation (1811)). 5. Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822 (A defence of poetry (1821)). 6. William ...