ABSTRACT

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a wroiter's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.

chapter |26 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

A Letter from Xo Ho, A Chinese Philosopher at London

chapter 1|1 pages

Unsigned notice, Monthly Review

May 1757, xvi, 469

chapter 2|1 pages

Unsigned review, Journal encyclopédique

June 1757, iv, 93–103

part |8 pages

A Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors

part |19 pages

Anecdotes of Painting in England

chapter 8|1 pages

William Shenstone, two letters

1762

chapter 9|8 pages

William Kenrick, two unsigned reviews, Monthly Review

April 1762, xxvi, 241–54; April 1764, xxx, 311–15

chapter 10|2 pages

Edmund Burke, unsigned review, Annual Register for 1762

March 1763, v, 252–7

chapter 11|1 pages

Unsigned review, Critical Review

December 1780, 1, 413–19

chapter 12|3 pages

Paul-Henry Maty, unsigned review, New Review

June 1782, i, 355–64

chapter 13|3 pages

Unsigned review, Retrospective Review

1827, N.S. I, Pt 3, 415–19

part |3 pages

A Catalogue of Engravers

chapter 14|2 pages

Unsigned review, Critical Review

February 1764, xvii, 123–9

chapter 15|1 pages

William Kenrick, unsigned notice, Monthly Review

April 1764, xxx, 332

part |43 pages

The Castle of Otranto

chapter 17|1 pages

Walpole, letter to William Cole

9 March 1765

chapter 19|3 pages

Unsigned reviews, Critical Review

January 1765, xix, 50–1; June 1765, xix, 469

chapter 20|2 pages

John Langhorne, two unsigned reviews, Monthly Review

February 1765, xxxii, 97–9; May 1765, xxxii, 394

chapter 24|4 pages

Ann Yearsley's poem on The Castle of Otranto

December 1784

chapter 26|1 pages

Thomas Green, diary entry

1 February 1797

part |5 pages

A Letter from the King of Prussia to Rousseau

part |4 pages

An Account of the Giants Lately Discovered

chapter 34|1 pages

Unsigned review, Critical Review

August 1766, xxii, 156–7

chapter 35|1 pages

Unsigned review, Monthly Review

September 1766, xxxv, 240–2

chapter 36|2 pages

Unsigned review, Journal encyclopédique

December 1766, no. viii, 105–13

part |19 pages

Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third

chapter 38|2 pages

Voltaire, letter to Walpole on Historic Doubts

15 July 1768

chapter 39|1 pages

Unsigned review, Political Register

March 1768, ii, 185–6

chapter 40|9 pages

Edward Gibbon, unsigned review

1769

chapter 42|1 pages

Thomas Green, diary entry

12 February 1799

part |19 pages

The Mysterious Mother

chapter 43|1 pages

Walpole, letter to George Montagu

15 April 1768

chapter 44|6 pages

Walpole's Postscript and Preface

1768 and 29 April 1781

chapter 46|2 pages

Fanny Burney, journal entry

29 November 1786

chapter 47|3 pages

William Taylor, unsigned review, Monthly Review

July 1797, 2nd ser., xxiii, 248–54

chapter 49|2 pages

Scott, Byron and Coleridge on The Mysterious Mother

1811, 1821, 1834

part |3 pages

An Essay on Modern Gardening

chapter 50|2 pages

Unsigned review, Critical Review

December 1780, 1, 418–19

chapter 51|1 pages

William Rose, unsigned review, Monthly Review

March 1781, lxiv, 193–6

part |4 pages

Hieroglyphic Tales

chapter 52|1 pages

Lady Mary Coke, journal entry

4 July 1771

chapter 54|2 pages

Charles Burney on Hieroglyphic Tales

October 1798

part |10 pages

Walpole and Chatterton

part |45 pages

Walpole's Letters

chapter 59|4 pages

Anna Seward changes her mind

1787 and 1806

chapter 60|1 pages

Thomas Green, diary entry

28 February 1799

chapter 62|10 pages

Walter Scott, unsigned review, Quarterly Review

April 1818, xix, 118–31

chapter 63|3 pages

Unsigned review, British Critic

June 1818, n.s. ix, 586–90

chapter 64|5 pages

William Hazlitt, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review

December 1818, xxxi, 80–93

chapter 65|10 pages

Unsigned review, ‘Walpole's Letters', British Review

May 1819, xiii, 257–80

chapter 66|2 pages

Lord Liverpool and John Wilson Croker, exchange of letters

23 August and 24 October 1824

chapter 67|2 pages

Unsigned review, Monthly Review

September 1825, 2nd ser., cviii, 32–7

chapter 69|4 pages

Christian Johnstone, unsigned review, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

July 1833, iii, 421–36

part |28 pages

Memoirs of King George II

chapter 70|4 pages

Walpole on the Memoirs

1753–6

chapter 72|2 pages

Unsigned review, Literary Gazette

9 March 1822, p. 143; 20 April 1822, p. 247

chapter 73|10 pages

John Wilson Croker, unsigned review, Quarterly Review

April 1822, xxvii, 178–215

chapter 74|2 pages

Unsigned review, Monthly Review

May 1822, 2nd ser., xcviii, 1–13

chapter 75|5 pages

Henry Hawkins on the Memoirs

1822

part |15 pages

Strawberry Hill

chapter 76|3 pages

Walpole, two letters on Strawberry Hill

27 April and 12 June 1753

chapter 77|1 pages

Henrietta Pye on Strawberry Hill

1760

chapter 78|3 pages

William Cole visits Strawberry Hill

30 October 1762 and 29 October 1774

part |86 pages

Biographical and General

chapter 82|2 pages

Walpole's self-portrait

27 October 1759

chapter 83|3 pages

Madame du Deffand's portrait of Walpole

November 1766

chapter 84|2 pages

Edmond Malone's portrait of Walpole

1783

chapter 85|1 pages

Samuel Johnson on Walpole

June 1784

chapter 88|3 pages

Charles Burney on Walpole and Johnson

September-October 1798

chapter 92|3 pages

‘H.R.', reply to D'Israeli

13 September 1812

chapter 93|3 pages

George Hardinge's portrait of Walpole

22 June 1813

chapter 95|4 pages

William Beloe, anecdotes of Walpole

1817

chapter 97|3 pages

Samuel Egerton Brydges, two accounts of Walpole's reputation

September 1825 and 1831

chapter 98|2 pages

Lord Holland, anecdotes of Walpole

1826

chapter 101|8 pages

Mary Berry, reply to Macaulay

1840