The author of this book has not tried to write a scholarly book, but has not used the word 'probably' in every sentence that, strictly speaking, needs it.

George Gordon Lord Byron, the sixth of the title, has always fascinated biographers (and he has many), though his poetry has tended to be rather more neglected by the critics. This is not to say that his life, a most romantic one by anyone's standard, is more entertaining than his writing. It is not as simple as that.

Presents the background to the life and times of Alfred Tennyson, surveys his works, and provides contemporary critical opinions of them.

In this book the author has dealt with the published novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte and with the poems of Emily. The author has also tried to show the importance of the close family circle of the Brontes as the area from which their imaginative work stemmed, and the influence upon their work of their reading, and also of those limited aspect of Victorian life in which they were involved.

Although Yeat's greatness as a poet is now widely accepted, there are several odd facts about his contemporary reputation and status. Perhaps the oddest is that, though he is granted the label of 'great' by many, attempts to demonstrate his greatness & its nature seem to concentrate on a handful of his poems, his anthology pieces.