| Preface | |
| 1 | A Poetry of Sensation | 3 |
| 2 | The Chemistry of the Poetic Process | 30 |
| 3 | The Early Verse | 72 |
| 4 | The Allegory of Endymion | 90 |
| 5 | The Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds | 117 |
| 6 | The Northern Walking Tour | 132 |
| 7 | The First Hyperion | 155 |
| 8 | Romance as Wish Fulfillment: The Eve of St. Agnes | 198 |
| 9 | From The Eve of Saint Mark to "La Belle Dame sans Merci" | 221 |
| 10 | Romantic Irony: The Great Odes of the Spring | 242 |
| 11 | Comic Irony: Lamia | 292 |
| 12 | Tragic Irony: The Fall of Hyperion | 310 |
| Epilogue. "To Autumn" | 336 |
| Afterword (1994) | 343 |
| Index | 347 |