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IV   Of Art and Nature as Poetical Subjects. (From the "Reply to Bowles") 143 Percy Bysshe Shelley—(Born in 1792, died in 1822.) I   In Defense of Poetry. (From an essay written some time in 1820-21) 151 II   The Baths of Caracalla. (From a letter to Thomas Love Peacock) 155 III   The ruins of Pompeii. (A letter to Thomas Love Peacock) 158 George Grote—(Born in 1794, died in 1871.) I   The Mutilation of the Hermæ. (From Chapter LVIII of the "History of Greece") 165 II   If Alexander Had Lived. (From Chapter XCIV of the "History of Greece") 172 Thomas Carlyle—(Born in 1795, died in 1881.) I   Charlotte Corday. (From the "History of the French Revolution") 179 II   The Blessedness of Work. (From "Past and Present") 187 III   Cromwell. (From "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History") 190 IV   In Praise of Those Who Toil. (From "Sartor Resartus") 201 V   The Certainty of Justice. (From "Past and Present") 202 VI   The Greatness of Scott. (From the essay on Lockhart's "Life of Scott") 206 VII   Boswell and His Book. (From the essay on Croker's edition of Boswell) 214 VIII   Might Burns Have Been Saved? (From the essay on Burns) 223 Lord Macaulay—(Born in 1800, died in 1859.) I   Puritans and Royalists. (From the essay on Milton)