The Victorian Rembrandt: Carlyle's portraits of his contemporaries.--The background of Carlyle's portrait of Coleridge in The life of John Sterling.--The Carlyles and Byron.--The correspondence and friendship of Thomas Carlyle and Leigh Hunt.--Carlyle and Tennyson.--The Carlyles and Thackeray.--Retracing Carlyle's journey of 1849 through Ireland.--The letters of John Stuart Mill.--Tennyson and the Human hand.--Two kinds of poetry.--The ancient Mariner and Coleridge's theory of poetic art.