ABSTRACT

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

chapter |25 pages

Introduction

part |6 pages

Hours of Idleness

chapter 1|6 pages

Henry P. Brougham, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review

Dated January 1808, issued February 1808, XI, 285–9

part |2 pages

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

chapter 2|2 pages

From an unsigned review, Gentleman's Magazine

March 1809, LXXIX (Part I), 246–9

part |17 pages

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Cantos I and II

chapter 3|3 pages

Some contemporary comments

chapter 4|5 pages

Francis Jeffrey, from his unsigned review, Edinburgh Review

Dated February 1812, issued May 1812, XIX, 466–77

chapter 5|9 pages

George Ellis, from his unsigned review, Quarterly Review

Dated March 1812, issued May 1812, VII, 180–200

part |27 pages

The Turkish Tales

chapter 6|12 pages

Jeffrey, from his unsigned review of The Corsair and The Bride of Abydos, Edinburgh Review

Dated April 1814, issued July 1814, XXIII, 198–229

chapter 7|3 pages

Ellis from his unsigned review of The Corsair and Lara, Quarterly Review

Dated July 1814, issued Autumn 1814, XI, 428–57

chapter 8|6 pages

Some contemporary comments

part |29 pages

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III

chapter 11|3 pages

Some first reactions

chapter 12|14 pages

Scott, from his unsigned review, Quarterly Review

Dated October 1816, issued February 1817, XVI, 172–208

chapter 13|12 pages

Jeffrey, from his unsigned, review, Edinburgh Review

Dated December 1816, issued February 1817, XXVII, 277–310

part |10 pages

Manfred

chapter 14|4 pages

John Wilson, from his unsigned review, Blackwood's Magazine

June 1817, I, 289–95

chapter 15|4 pages

Jeffrey, from his unsigned review, Edinburgh Review

Dated August 1817, issued September 1817, XXVIII, 418–31

chapter 16|2 pages

Goethe on Manfred [1817] 1820

part |9 pages

Beppo February 1818

part |28 pages

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto IV April 1818

chapter 20|10 pages

Scott, from his unsigned review, Quarterly Review

Dated April 1818, issued September 1818, XIX, 215–32

chapter 21|8 pages

John Wilson, from his unsigned review, Edinburgh Review

Dated June 1818, issued September 1818, XXX, 87–120

part |47 pages

Don Juan

chapter 24|8 pages

Blackwood's Magazine's ‘Remarks on Don Juan’

August 1819, V, 512–18

chapter 25|5 pages

Leigh Hunt, from his unsigned review of Cantos I and II, Examiner

31 October 1819, pp. 700–2

chapter 28|4 pages

Croker read Cantos III and IV

March 1820

chapter 29|3 pages

Shelley on Cantos III, IV and V.

1821

chapter 30|7 pages

Jeffrey on Don Juan

1822

part |41 pages

The Dramas

chapter 32|4 pages

Jeffrey, from his unsigned review of Marino Faliero, Edinburgh Review

Dated July 1821, issued September 1821, XXXV, 271–85

chapter 34|2 pages

Three orthodox attacks on Cain

1821, 1822

chapter 35|7 pages

Leigh Hunt, Examiner

2 June 1822, pp. 338–41

chapter 36|8 pages

Jeffrey, from his unsigned review of Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari and Cain, Edinburgh Review

Dated February 1822, issued April 1822, XXXVI, 413–52

chapter 37|12 pages

Reginald Heber, from his unsigned review of Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari and Cain, Quarterly Review

Dated July 1822, issued November (?) 1822, XXVII, 476–524

part |4 pages

The Vision of Judgment

chapter 38|4 pages

Contemporary comments

part |253 pages

Don Juan (1819–21)

chapter 40|4 pages

Some minor reviewers on Don Juan

1819–23

chapter 43|11 pages

Hazlitt on Byron

1825

chapter 46|9 pages

Carlyle on Byron and Byronism

1824–43

chapter 47|22 pages

Macaulay on Byron

1831

chapter 48|8 pages

Bulwer-Lytton on Byron's popularity

1833

chapter 50|12 pages

Mazzini on Byron and Liberty

[1839] 1870

chapter 51|2 pages

Thackeray on Byron's insincerity

1846

chapter 52|6 pages

Peo on Byron's metrics

1848

chapter 53|15 pages

Kingsley on Shelley and Byron

[1853] 1859

chapter 54|3 pages

Bagehot on the mere fashion for Byron

[1864] 1879

chapter 56|11 pages

Swinburne's defence of Byron

[1866] 1875

chapter 57|26 pages

John Morley on Byron and the Revolution

[1870] 1871

chapter 58|11 pages

John Addington Symonds on Byron

1880

chapter 59|20 pages

Ruskin on Byron

1841–86

chapter 60|19 pages

Arnold on Byron

1850–88

chapter 61|4 pages

W. E. Henley on Byron

[1881] 1890

chapter 62|13 pages

Swinburne's attack on Byron

[1884] 1886

chapter 65|2 pages

Chesterton on Byron s optimism

1902

chapter 68|9 pages

Arthur Symons on Byron

1909