pt. 1. Rousseau and Wordsworth: autobiography and the language of feeling: Story of a life -- Rousseau and the vocabulary of feeling -- "Love" in The prelude -- pt. 2. Rousseau and Wordsworth: imagination and memory: Sources of imagination: Rousseau ; Wordsworth -- Charm of memory -- Sentiment of being -- pt. 3. English vision and French symbols: Victor Hugo and Wordsworthian perception -- Victor Hugo: from spectacle to symbol -- Lovely behavior of things: Hopkins and Baudelaire -- pt. 4. Ideas of the symbol in Coleridge and Baudelaire: Beauty and taste -- Symbolic light -- Language of nature -- pt. 5. Nature and imagination in Middlemarch and Madame Bovary: Middlemarch: beyond the voyage to Cythera -- Poverty of nature in Madame Bovary.