The lost pattern : essays on the emergent city sensibility in Victorian England - Forsyth, Raymond Aubrey, 1926- (Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1976)
Themes and variations.--The Victorian self-image and the emergent city sensibility.--Geology and the early Victorian traveller.--"The onward march of thought" and the poetic theory of E. S. Dallas.--The myth of nature and the Victorian compromise of the imagination.--Nature and the Victorian city.--Evolutionism and the pessimism of James Thomson (B.V.)--The conserving myth of William Barnes.--"The buried life".--"Europe", "Africa", and the problem of spiritual authority.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; City and town life in literature