PAGE A DEFENCE OF POETRY 1 ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS 39 ON THE SYMPOSIUM 48 THE BANQUET 51 ION; OR, OF THE ILIAD 114 MENEXENUS; OR, THE FUNERAL ORATION 132 FRAGMENTS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO 136 ON A PASSAGE IN CRITO 145 THE ASSASSINS 147 ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH 167 ON LIFE 174 ON A FUTURE STATE 180 SPECULATIONS ON METAPHYSICS:-- _The Mind_ 186 _What Metaphysics are. Errors in the usual Methods of Considering them_ 189 _Difficulty of Analysing the Human Mind_ 190 _How the Analysis should be carried on_ 191 _Catalogue of the Phenomena of Dreams, as connecting Sleeping and Waking_ 191 FRAGMENTS:-- _Speculations on Morals_:-- _Plan of a Treatise on Morals_ 194 _On the Nature of Virtue_ 196 _Benevolence_ 197 _Justice_ 201 _Moral Science consists in considering the Difference, not the Resemblance, of Persons_ 204 GHOST STORIES 208 _Fragment from Journal_ 215 LETTERS FROM ITALY:-- _To Thomas Love Peacock_ 221 _To the Same_ 223 _To the Same_ 227 _To the Same_ 228 _To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne_ 229 _To William Godwin_ 231 _To Mrs. Shelley_ 233 _To the Same_ 236 _To the Same_ 239 _To Thomas Love Peacock_ 241 _To the Same_ 244 _To the Same_ 249 _To the Same_ 255 _To the Same_ 259 _To the Same_ 268 _To the Same_ 277 _To the Same_ 286 _To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne_ 290