English Lands Letters and Kings: The Later Georges to Victoria

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Author

Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908

Title

English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 4: The Later Georges to Victoria

Credits

E-text prepared by MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Great Britain -- Intellectual life

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 54143

Release Date

February 9, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.FORECAST.
3. 3.CONTENTS. — ENGLISH LANDS, LETTERS, & KINGS.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. — The Lake Country. — Robert Southey. — His Early Life. — Greta Hall. — The Doctor and Last Shadows. — Crabb Robinson. — Thomas De Quincey. — Marriage and other Flights.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. — Christopher North. — Wilson in Scotland. — Thomas Campbell. — A Minstrel of the Border. — The Waverley Dispensation. — Glints of Royalty.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. — A Start in Life. — Henry Brougham. — Francis Jeffrey. — Sydney Smith. — A Highlander. — Rest at Cannes.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. — Gifford and His Quarterly. — A Prince Regent. — A Scholar and Poet. — Landor in Italy. — Landor’s Domesticities. — Final Exile and Death. — Prose of Leigh Hunt. — Hunt’s Verse. — An Irish Poet. — Lalla Rookh.
8. 8.CHAPTER V. — The “First Gentleman.” — Hazlitt and Hallam. — Queen of a Salon. — Young Bulwer and Disraeli. — The Poet of Newstead. — Early Verse and Marriage.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. — Lord Byron a Husband. — A Stay in London. — Exile. — Shelley and Godwin. — Byron in Italy. — Shelley Again. — John Keats. — Buried in Rome. — Pisa and Don Juan. — Missolonghi.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. — King William’s Time. — Her Majesty Victoria. — Macaulay. — In Politics and Verse. — Parliamentarian and Historian. — Some Tory Critics. — Two Gone-by Story Tellers.
11. 11.FOOTNOTES
12. 12.INDEX.

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