English Literature 1815-1832

I. THE LITERARY SCENE IN 1815

II. BYRON 49

III. SHELLEY 77

IV. KEATS 105

V. CLARE AND THE MINOR POETS 130
Clare, Beddoes, Darley, Leigh Hunt, J. H. Reynolds, Hood,
Praed, Hartley Coleridge, 'Barry Cornwall', Peacock, Moore,
Mrs. Hemans, 'L. E. L.', Milman, Keble, Charles Wells,
Bernard Barton : the popularity of Annuals: the Rejected
Addresses and other parodies : the poor state of the drama, and the work of R. L. Shcil, Maturin, and Sheridan Knowles
the work of R. L. Shcil, Maturin, and Sheridan Knowles

VI. THE WAVERLEY ROMANCES 185

VII. PEACOCK 213
VIII. JOHN GALT AND THE MINOR WRITERS OF
VIII. JOHN GALT AND THE MINOR WRITERS OF
PROSE FICTION 225
fialt, Susan Ferrier, Lockhart, Hogg, D. M. Moir, Mary
Shelley, James Morier, T. H. Lister, the Fashionable Novelists, Theodore Hook, Plumer Ward, Horace Smith, Maturin,
Theodore Hook, Plumer Ward, Horace Smith, Maturin,
John Banim, and Gerald Griffin

IX. HAZLITT 260

X. LAMB 278

XI. DE QUINCEY 292

XII. MISCELLANEOUS PROSE 312
Cobbett, Leigh Hunt, Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Gifford,
Croker, 'Christopher North', Mary Russell Mitford, Landor.


XIII. HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY351
Hallam, Lingard, James Mill: Lockhart on Scott: Moore,
Lady Blessington, and Galt on Byron: the early biographers
of Shelley: autobiography as a word and as a fashion: the
autobiographies of Leigh Hunt, Trelawny, Haydon, and Sir
Samuel Egerton Brydges.

XIV. INTEREST IN FOREIGN LITERATURE AND IN
EARLIER ENGLISH LITERATURE 375

XV. THE LITERARY SCENE IN 1832 408

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES 439

BIBLIOGRAPHY 458

INDEX 633