The Consolation of Philosophy (James)

Index of Verse Interludes

 * PREFACE.
 * PROEM.

Book I.

 * The Sorrows of Boethius
 * 1) Boethius' Complaint
 * 2) His Despondency
 * 3) The Mists dispelled
 * 4) Nothing can subdue Virtue
 * 5) Boethius' Prayer
 * 6) All Things have their Needful Order
 * 7) The Perturbations of Passion

Book II.

 * The Vanity of Fortune's Gifts
 * 1) Fortune's Malice
 * 2) Man's Covetousness
 * 3) All Passes
 * 4) The Golden Mean
 * 5) The Former Age
 * 6) Neros' Infamy
 * 7) Glory may not last
 * 8) Love is Lord of all

Book III.

 * True Happiness and False
 * 1) The Thorns of Error
 * 2) The Bent of Nature
 * 3) The Insatiableness of Avarice
 * 4) Disgrace of Honours conferred by a Tyrant
 * 5) Self-mastery
 * 6) True Nobility
 * 7) Pleasure's Sting
 * 8) Human Folly
 * 9) Invocation
 * 10) The True Light
 * 11) Reminiscence
 * 12) Orpheus and Eurydice

Book IV.

 * Good and Ill Fortune
 * 1) The Soul's Flight
 * 2) The Bondage of Passion
 * 3) Circe's Cup
 * 4) The Unreasonableness of Hatred
 * 5) Wonder and Ignorance
 * 6) The Universal Aim
 * 7) The Hero's Path

Book V.

 * Free Will and God's Foreknowledge
 * 1) Chance
 * 2) The True Sun
 * 3) Truth's Paradoxes
 * 4) A Psychological Fallacy
 * 5) The Upward Look


 * EPILOGUE.
 * REFERENCES TO QUOTATIONS IN THE TEXT.