ABSTRACT

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.

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Introduction

part 1|14 pages

Melincourt, 3 vols (London, 1817) Vol. III: pp. 32–43

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Overview

chapter |12 pages

Peacock: Melincourt

part 2|8 pages

Bath; A Satirical Novel, with Portraits, 3 vols, 2nd edition (London, 1818)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part 3|6 pages

‘Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago’, Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine (London, 1823)

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Overview

part 4|11 pages

‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’, The Liberal: Verse and Prose from the South, 2 vols (London, 1823)

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Overview

part 5|12 pages

‘Mr Coleridge’, The Spirit of the Age: Or Contemporary Portraits (London, 1825)

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Overview

chapter |10 pages

Hazlitt: Mr Coleridge

part 6|7 pages

Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (London, 1828)

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Overview

part 7|10 pages

Unsigned, ‘Memoir of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’, The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume (Paris, 1829)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part 8|13 pages

An Oration on the Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2nd edition (London, 1834)

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Overview

part 9|5 pages

‘College Reminiscences of Mr. Coleridge’, Gentleman’s Magazine (December 1834)

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Overview

part 10|21 pages

‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge by The English Opium-Eater’, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine (September 1834 – January 1835)

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Overview

part 11|17 pages

Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [edited by H. N. Coleridge], 2 vols (London, 1835)

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Overview

part 12|7 pages

Letters Conversations and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge, 2 vols (London, 1836)

part 13|14 pages

m. d., Early Years and Late Reflections, 4 vols (London, 1836–58)

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Overview

part 14|37 pages

Early Recollections: Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, during his Long Residence in Bristol, 2 vols (London, 1837)

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Overview

chapter |35 pages

Cottle: Early Recollections

part 15|22 pages

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London, 1838)

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Overview

chapter |20 pages

Gillman: Life of Coleridge

part 16|23 pages

Biographia Literaria [...], second edition prepared for publication in part by the late Henry Nelson Coleridge and published by his Widow [Sara Coleridge], 2 vols in 3 (London, 1847)

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Overview

part 17|10 pages

Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (London, 1847; facsimile reprint, 1970)

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Overview

part 18|12 pages

Final Memorials of Charles Lamb; Consisting Chiefly of his Letters not before Published, with Sketches of Some of his Companions, 2 vols as 1 (London, 1848)

part 19|7 pages

The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–50)

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Overview

part 20|8 pages

The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind; An Autobiographical Poem (London, 1850);

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Overview

part 21|11 pages

Memoirs of Wordsworth, Poet-Laureate, D.C.L., 2 vols (London, 1851)

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Overview

part 22|12 pages

Life of John Sterling (London, 1851; text from Centenary Edition of Complete Works in 30 volumes, London, 1898)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

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Life of John Sterling

part 23|5 pages

Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856)

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Overview

part 24|7 pages

English Traits (Boston, 1856)

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Overview

chapter |5 pages

Emerson: English Traits

part 25|11 pages

Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific of Sir Humphry Davy [...] (London, 1858)

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Overview

chapter |9 pages

Davy: Fragmentary Remains

part 26|22 pages

Beaten Paths; and Those Who Trod Them, 2 vols (London, 1862)

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Overview

chapter |19 pages

Grattan: Beaten Paths

part 27|7 pages

Charles Lamb: A Memoir (London, 1866)

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Overview

chapter |6 pages

Charles Lamb: A Memoir

part 28|9 pages

Men I Have Known (London and New York, 1866)

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Overview

chapter |7 pages

Jerdan: Men I Have Known

part 29|12 pages

Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, edited by Thomas Sadler, 3 vols (London, 1869)

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Overview

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Crabb Robinson: Diary

part 30|12 pages

A Group of Englishmen (1795 to 1815) being records of the Younger Wedgwoods and their Friends [...] (London, 1871)

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Overview

part 31|8 pages

A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, Tragedian, with Extracts from his Son’s Journal, 2 vols (London and New York, 1871)

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Overview

part 32|9 pages

Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland A. D. 1803, edited by J. C. Shairp (Edinburgh, 1874)

chapter |5 pages

Overview