Lives of the Great Romantics, Part II, Volume 3

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.

Auteur

Fiona Robertson

Contenu

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Chronology -- Copy Texts -- 1. Hazlitt, William, The Spirit of the Age -- 2. Baillie, Joanna, 'Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott' -- 3. Vedder, David, Memoir of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. -- 4. Hogg, James, The Domestic Manners and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott -- 5. Hall, Basil, Fragments of Voyages and Travels -- 6. Irving, Washington, Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey -- 7. Gillies, R. P., Recollections of Sir Walter Scott -- 8. Gillies, R. R, Memoirs of a Literary Veteran -- 9. Lockhart, John Gibson, Memoirs of the Life o f Sir Walter Scott, Bart. -- 10. Carlyle, Thomas, Review of Lockhart's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. -- 11. Bury, Lady Charlotte, Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth -- 12. Mathews, Charles, Memoirs -- 13. Smith, Horace, 'A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance' -- 14. Cockburn, Henry (Lord Cockburn), Memorials of His Time -- 15. Audubon, John James, The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon, the Naturalist: Edited, from Materials Supplied by his Widow, by Robert Buchanan -- 16. Chambers, Robert, Life of Sir Walter Scott -- 17. Carruthers, Robert, 'Abbotsford Notanda'; including extracts from William Laidlaw, Recollections of Sir Walter Scott -- 18. Ferrier, Susan, 'Recollections of Visits to Ashistiel and Abbotsford' -- 19. Edgeworth, Maria, Life and Letters -- Notes -- Index.