Literary Friendships in the Age of Wordsworth
An Anthology

Originally published in 1932, this book contains extracts from key Romantic writers and those in their circle to illustrate the friendships between them.

R. C. Bald (Edited by)

9781107450646, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 December 2014

310 pages
19.8 x 12.9 x 1.6 cm, 0.3 kg

Originally published in 1932, this book contains extracts from the works of key Romantic writers and those in their circle to illustrate the friendships between them. The events and topics covered include the deaths of Keats and Shelley as well as trips some of the authors took together. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the relationships among the key figures of Romantic literature.

Preface
1. Christ's Hospital, 1782–99
2. Pantisocracy
3. Lamb's tragedy
4. Nether Stowey and Alfoxden, 1797–8
5. Lamb and Southey
6. The Lakes, 1800–2
7. Wordsworth's Scottish tour, 1803
8. De Quincey as undergraduate
9. Southey to Coleridge, 1804
10. Lamb to Wordsworth
11. Mr H-
12. To William Wordsworth
13. The Lake poets
14. Byron in 1809
15. Literary London
16. The Laureateship
17. Leigh Hunt in prison
18. The Excursion
19. Lamb at home
20. Wordsworth in London
21. Byron in London
22. Coleridge and Lady Hamilton
23. Lamb to Wordsworth
24. Byron and Shelley in Switzerland
25. Crabb Robinson among the Lakes
26. Shelley in England
27. Byron on his contemporaries
28. Dedicatory sonnet to Leigh Hunt
29. London, 1817–18
30. Shelley and Byron
31. Keats and Coleridge
32. The Waggoner
33. Coleridge
34. The Cenci
35. The Wordsworths in town
36. Shelley and Keats
37. London from abroad
38. On the conversation of authors
39. Lamb to Hazlitt
40. Coleridge as book-borrower
41. Hunt on Lamb and Coledridge
42. De Quincey in London
43. Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt and Shelley
44. Scott
45. The death of Keats
46. Byron at Ravenna and Pisa
47. The death of Shelley
48. After Shelley's death
49. Lamb to Coleridge
50. Lamb to Bernard Barton
51. Byron on his contemporaries
52. Lamb on Byron
53. Lamb on Wordsworth
54. Wordsworth, Lamb and Moore
55. Leigh Hunt in Florence
56. Lamb's friends
57. Lamb's retirement
58. Blake
59. The last night at Abbotsford
60. Landor and Lamb
61. Coleridge on Wordsworth
62. Elia
63. To Southey, 1833
64. The death of Coleridge
65. Landor to Crabb Robinson
66. Aftermath
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]