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.

chapter

Introduction

part 1|5 pages

Town Conversation’, London Magazine (April 1821)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

chapter |2 pages

Town Conversation. No. IV.

part 2|26 pages

Adonais (Pisa, 1821)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part |1 pages

Adonais

chapter |4 pages

Preface

chapter |19 pages

Adonais.

part 3|5 pages

The Garden of Florence and Other Poems (1821)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

chapter |3 pages

Advertisement.

part 4|29 pages

Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (1828)

chapter |5 pages

Overview

part 5|3 pages

‘Novels of the Season’, Fraser’s Magazine (August 1831)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

chapter |1 pages

‘Novels of the Season’

part 6|4 pages

Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. H. N. Coleridge (1835), vol. II, 14 August 1832

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part 7a|9 pages

The Philosophy of Mystery (1841)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part 8|42 pages

The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2 vols (1847)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

chapter |40 pages

Cornwall: Town Conversation

part 9|69 pages

Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part |66 pages

Milnes, Richard Monckton, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats

chapter |11 pages

Preface.

part 10|8 pages

The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt; with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries (1850)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |6 pages

Leigh Hunt: Autobiography

part 11|27 pages

The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter; from his Autobiography and Journals, ed. T. Taylor (1853)

chapter |4 pages

Overview

part 12|18 pages

‘Recollections of Keats’, Atlantic Monthly (January 1861)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

chapter |15 pages

Recollections of Keats.

part 13|10 pages

‘On the Vicissitudes of Keats’s Fame’, Atlantic Monthly (April 1863)

part 14|4 pages

Recollections of Writers (1878)

part 15|22 pages

‘An Esculapian Poet – John Keats’, The Asclepiad, A Book of Original Research and Observation in the Science, Art and Literature of Medicine, Preventative and Curative (April 1884)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part 16|21 pages

‘Journals and Reminiscences’, in W. Sharp, The Life and Letters of Joseph Severn (1892)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part 17|9 pages

The Life of John Keats (1937), ed. Dorothy Hyde Bodurtha and Willard Bissett Pope [originally sent to Monckton Milnes]

chapter |3 pages

Overview

chapter |7 pages

Brown: The Life of John Keats