Introductory essay: Ideal womanhood in the masterpieces of Dante, Goethe, Robert Browning.--Leopardi and evolutional pessimism.--"Obermann" of Senancour and Matthew Arnold, or Morals divorced from theology.--Agnostic poets of our day.--The Prometheus unbound of Shelley, a drama of human destiny.--The permanence of art, or Art and ontology.--Realistic art on the stage: Gerhardt Hauptmann. Walt Whitman, the Camden sage.--Appendix: Notes (1)-(8)
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