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Acknowledgments; Editions and abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. TheWill to Value: 1. In pursuit of the ethical; 2. British Romanticism,Coleridge, and European moral traditions; Part II. Agent, Power, Scene: 3.Blake: the poetry of violence; 4. The tragic Wordsworth; 5. De Quincey andRomantic decadence; Part III. The Pressure of Reality: 6. Shelley and thepoetry of life; 7. Hazlitt: common sense of a dissenter; 8. Keats and theethics of immanence; 9. Byron: the world as glorious blunder; 10. The ethicalbearing of literature; Select biblilography.