ABSTRACT
I. Crabbed realism, in harmony with the tradition of the eighteenth century in England, is opposed to the dawning Romanticism.— II. Its origin and its elements: firstly, description—flora, heath, sea, human dwellings.—III. Its origin and its elements: secondly, satire and poetry of disillusion.—IV. Its distinctive character: the psychology of outcasts.—V. Verdict of contemporaries. Realism and reality.
