Prologue: Literary life, 1815.
'The discipline of his taste at school': Christ's Hospital and Cambridge.
'The progress of his opinions in religion and politics': the radical years.
'A known and familiar landscape': conversations.
'The poet, described in Ideal perfection': Annus mirabilis.
'The toil of thinking': private notes and public newspapers.
'To rust away': the lost years 1800-6.
'The one Proteus of the fire and the flood': critic for hire.
'To preserve the soul steady': the sage of Highgate.
