CONTENTS

Introduction

i Our Last Great Age of Heroes

PART ONE. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY HERO TYPES

ii The Child of Nature
111 The Hero of Sensibility: Man of Feeling or Gloomy Egoist 3
iv The Gothic Villain

PART TWO. ROMANTIC HERO TYPES

v The Noble Outlaw
vi Faust
v 11 Cain and Ahasuerus 9
vni Satan and Prometheus

PART THREE. BYRONIC HEROES

i x Childe Harold 12
x Four Turkish Tales
x i Two Metaphysical Dramas 16
x 11 The Byronic Hero and Heroic Tradition 18

NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX

INDEX