I: Background and theory -- Introduction -- Mysterious certainty -- Things real : vision and revision -- :The synthesis of the succession : cadence and its theory -- II. Orion of light -- The wreck of the Deutschland (1875-1889) -- III. As the circling bird (1877-1889) -- To glean our Saviour : nature, humanity, God -- Mortal beauty : selfhood, variety mortality -- Sheer plod : creaturehood, drudgery, glory -- IV. Dark descending -- The terrible sonnets (1885).
Virginia Ridley Ellis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-343) and index.
