pt. 1. Comic love: Burns and the triumph of empathic humor -- From wit to irony in Byronic comedy -- pt. 2. Marital love: Necessity of marriage: Burns and Wordsworth -- Idealization of marriage: Coleridge and Scott -- pt. 3. Love without marriage: New moralists -- Exaltation of passion -- pt. 4. Fantasy of love: Visionary love: Shelley and Keats -- Amatory nymphs and spectres -- pt. 5. Love of mankind: Universal love and the French Revolution -- Philanthropy: hopes and limitations.