About the Book
In this second collection of biographical accounts of Romantic writers, the characters of Keats, Coleridge and Scott are recalled by their contemporaries, offering insights into their lives and writings, as well as into the art of 19th-century biography.
Table of Contents:
Volume 1 John Keats With extracts from: Barry Cornwall, 'Town Conversation' London Magazine (1821); Shelley, Adonis (1821); John Hamilton Reynolds, The Garden of Florence and Other Poems (1821); Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron and his Contemporaries (1828);'Novels of the Season' Fraser's Magazine (1831); Coleridge, Specimens of Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. by H N Coleridge (1835); Walter Cooper Dendy, The Philosophy of Mystery (1841) and Legends of the Lintel and the Ley (1863); Thomas Medwin, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelly (1847); Richard Monckton Milnes, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848); Leigh Hunt, Autobiography (1850); Benjamin Robert Haydon, The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon (1853); Charles Cowden Clarke, 'Recollections of Keats', Atlantic Monthly, vii (1861); Joseph Severn; 'On Vicissitudes of Keats's fame', Atlantic Monthly, XI (1863); Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, Recollections of Writers (1878); Sir Benjamin Richardson,'An Esculapian Poet - John Keats' (1824); Joseph Severn, The Life and Letters of Joseph Severn (1892); Charles Brown, The Life of John Keats (1937) Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge With extracts from: Thomas Love Peacock, Melincourt (1817); Thomas Brown the Elder, Bath (1818); Charles Lamb, 'Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago' (1823); William Hazlitt, 'My First Acquaintance with Poets' (1823); William Hazlitt, 'Mr Coleridge' (1825); Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (1828); Unsigned, 'Memoir of Samuel Taylor Coleridge' (1829); John A Heraud, An Oration on the Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834); C Le Grice, 'College Reminiscences of Mr Coleridge' (1834); Thomas De Quincey, 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge by The English Opium-Eater' (1835); Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835); Thomas Allsop, Letters Conversations and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge (1836); Clement Carlyon, Early Years and Late Reflections (1836-58); Joseph Cottle, Early Recollections (1837); James Gillman, The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1838); Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, second edition (1847); Thomas Noon Talfourd, Final Memorials of Charles Lamb (1848); Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (1849-50); William Wordsworth, The Prelude (1850); Christopher Wordsworth, Memoirs of Wordsworth (1851); Thomas Carlyle, Life of John Sterling (1898); John Wood Walter, Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey (1856); R W Emerson, English Traits (1856); John Davy, Fragmentary Remains (1858); Thomas Colley Grattan, Beaten Paths (1862); Barry Cornwall, Charles Lamb (1866); Willaim Jerdan, Men I Have Known (1866); Henry Crabb Robinson, Diary (1869); Eliza Meteyard, A Group of Englishmen (1871); Charles Julian Young, A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young (1871); Dorothy Wordsworth, Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland (1874) Volume 3 Sir Walter Scott With extracts from: William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825); Joanna Baillie, 'Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott' (1832); David Vedder, Memoir of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (1832); James Hogg, The Domestic Matters and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott (1834); Basil Hall, Fragments of Voyages and Travels (1834); Washington Irving, Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (1835); R P Gillies, Recollections of Sir Walter Scott (1837); R P Gillies, Memoirs of a Literary Veteran (1851); John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (1838); Lady Charlotte Bury, Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth (1838-9); Charles Matthews, Memoirs (1838-9); Horace Smith, 'A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance (1848); Henry Cockburn (Lord Cockburn), Memorials of His Time (1856); John James Audubon, The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon, the Naturalist: Edited, from Materials Supplied by his Widow, by Robert Buchanan (1869); Robert Chambers, Life of Sir Walter Scott (1871); Robert Carruthers, 'Abbotsford Notanda'; including extracts from William Laidlaw, Recollections of Sir Walter Scott (1871); Susan Ferrier, 'Recollections of Visits to Ashistiel and Abbotsford' (1874); Maria Edgeworth, Life and Letters (1894)
About the Author :
Editor John Mullan is at the Department of English, University College London. His publications include Sentiment and Sociability (1988) Jennifer Wallace is at Peterhouse, Cambridge Ralph Pite is at the Department of English Language and Literature, University of Liverpool Fiona Robertson is at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham
