Lives of the Great Romantics, Part I

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The memoirs in this collection are written by those who had personal knowledge of Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth, or who claimed to be recording the accounts of those who had such knowledge. Each volume in this set contains facsimilies of the original memoirs. Main Cover Vol 1 Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Bibliography Chronology Copy Texts Chapter 1: Hazlitt, William, 'On Paradox and Common-place' Chapter 2: Shelley, Mary, Preface to Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Chapter 3: Medwin, Thomas, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron Chapter 4: Hunt, Leigh, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries Chapter 5: Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 'Shelley at Oxford' Chapter 6: Medwin, Thomas, The Shelley Papers Chapter 7: Shelley, Mary, Preface and notes to Essays, Letters from Abroard Chapter 8: Dix, John, Pen and Ink Sketches of Poets Chapter 9: Medwin, Thomas, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley Chapter 10: Hunt, Leigh, The Autobiography Chapter 11: Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley Chapter 12: Trelawny, Edward, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron Chapter 13: Peacock, Thomas Love, 'Memoirs of Shelley', 1858 Chapter 14: Shelley, Lady Jane, Shelley Memorials Chapter 15: Peacock, Thomas Love, 'Memoirs of Shelley', 1860/1862 Chapter 16: Hunt, Thornton, 'Shelley. By One Who Knew Him' Chapter 17: Trelawny, Edward, Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author Chapter 18: Polidori, John William, Diary, 1816 Vol 2 Cover Half Title Dedication Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Bibliography Chronology Copy Texts Chapter 1: Scott, Sir Walter, ‘Character of Lord Byron’ Chapter 2: Galt, John, The Life of Lord Byron Chapter 3: Moore, Thomas, The Life of Byron Chapter 4: Dallas, Robert, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron Chapter 5: Hobhouse, John Cam, Recollections of a Long Life Chapter 6: Hunt, Leigh, Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries Chapter 7: Medwin, Thomas, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron Chapter 8: Guiccioli, Teresa, My Recollections of Lord Byron Chapter 9: Kennedy, James, Conversations on Religion with Lord Byron Chapter 10: Trelawny, Edward, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron Vol 3 Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Bibliography Chronology Copy Texts Chapter 1: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Biographia Literaria Chapter 2: Wilson, John (‘Phillip Kempferhausen’), ‘Letters from the Lakes’ Chapter 3: Hazlitt, William, ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’ Chapter 4: Hazlitt, William, The Spirit of the Age Chapter 5: Anon., Galignani Edition, ‘Memoir of William Wordsworth Esq.’ Chapter 6: T.Q.M., ‘Notes on a Tour from Skipton to Keswick’ Chapter 7: Dewey, Orville, The Old World and the New Chapter 8: Chorley, Henry F., Memorials of Mrs Hemans Chapter 9: Cottle, Joseph, Early Recollections Chapter 10: De Quincey, Thomas, ‘Lake Reminiscences from 1807 to 1830’ Chapter 11: De Quincey, Thomas, ‘Sketches of Life and Manners’ Chapter 12: Field, Barron, Memoirs of the Life and Poetry of William Wordsworth Chapter 13: Hunt, James Henry Leigh, The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt Chapter 14: Gillies, Robert Pearse, Memoirs of a Literary Veteran Chapter 15: Wordsworth, Christopher, Memoirs of William Wordsworth Chapter 16: Phillips, George Searle (‘January Searle’), Memoirs of William Wordsworth Chapter 17: Haydon, Benjamin Robert, Life, from bis Autobiography and Journals Chapter 18: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, English Traits Chapter 19: Hood, Edwin Paxton, William Wordsworth; A Biography Chapter 20: Moore, Thomas, Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence Chapter 21: Davy, John, The Angler in the Lake District Chapter 22: Trelawny, Edward, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron Chapter 23: Grattan, Thomas Colley, Beaten Paths; and Those Who Trod Them Chapter 24: Jerdan, William, Men I Have Known Chapter 25: Graves, Robert Perceval, ‘Recollections of Wordsworth and the Lake Country’ Chapter 26: Robinson, Henry Crabb, Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence Chapter 27: Young, Julian Charles, A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young Chapter 28: Cooper, Thomas, The Life of Thomas Cooper: Written by Himself Chapter 29: Coleridge, Sara, Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge Chapter 30: Fletcher, Eliza, Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher Chapter 31: Martineau, Harriet, Autobiography Chapter 32: Pattison, Samuel Rowles (ed.), The Brothers Wiffen Chapter 33: Carlyle, Thomas, Reminiscences Chapter 34: Fox, Caroline, Memories of Old Friends Chapter 35: Rawnsley, Hardwicke Drummond, ‘Reminiscences of Wordsworth among the Peasantry of Westmoreland’ Chapter 36: Watts, Alaric Alfred, Alaric Watts. A Narrative of His Life Chapter 37: Taylor, Henry, Autobiography of Henry Taylor 1800–1875 Chapter 38: De Vere, Aubrey, Essays, Chiefly on Poetry Chapter 39: Yarnall, Ellis, Wordsworth and the Coleridges