INDEX
Reading edition
Allen, Thomas, 113
Arnold, Matthew, 116, 257, 378
Austen, Jane, 29
Blackwood's Magazine, 37 sqq., 276 sqq., 343 sqq.
Borrow, George, 403-439;
his life, 403, 404; his excessive oddity, 404-411; his satiric and character-drawing faculty, 414-417; sketches of his books, 417-433; his general literary character, 433-439
Brougham, Lord, 107, 109
Burke, Edmund, 10 sqq.
Burns, Robert, 34, 48, 53, 159, 160, 353
Byron, Lord, 3, 131, 132, 393
Canning, George, 75, 97, 200, 385
Carlyle, Thomas, 47, 270-272, 323, 369, 370
Coleridge, S. T., 141
Colvin, Mr. Sidney, 445
Courthope, Mr. W. J., 4
Crabbe, George, 1-32;
the decline of his popularity, 1-5; sketch of his life, 6-12; his works and their characteristics, 13-20; their prosaic element, 20-25; was he a poet?, 25-32
Cunningham, Allan, 46, 53
Dante, 26, 218, 230, 231
Douglas, Scott, 41, 353
Dryden, John, 22, 30, 85, 232
Fitzgerald, Edward (translator of Omar Khayyám), 4
Flaubert, Gustave, 19
Fraser's Magazine, 359, 360
Gifford, William, 3, 21, 152
Hannay, Mr. David, 350
Hazlitt, William, 135-169;
differing estimates of him, 135-140; his life, 140-146; his works, 146-169 ——xxi, xxii, 4, 24, 25, 130, 131, 217
Hogg, James, 33-66;
his special interest, 33, 34; his life, 34-37; anecdotes and estimates of him, 37-47; his poems, 47-54; his general prose, 54, 55; The Confessions of a Sinner, 55-64
Hood and Praed, 397-399
Hook, Theodore, 357-359
Howells, Mr. W. D., xvii
Hunt, Leigh, 201-233;
scattered condition of his work, 201-203; his life, 204-213; the "Skimpole" matter, 213-216; his vulgarity, 217-219; his poems, 219-223; his critical and miscellaneous work, 223-233
Jeffrey, Francis, 100-134;
a critic pure and simple, 100, 101; his life, 101-114; the foundation of the Edinburgh Review, 106-109; his criticism, 115, 134 ——3, 4, 21, 24, 29
Johnson, Samuel, 2, 11, 14, 16
Joubert, Joseph, 26
Lang, Mr. Andrew, xxii
Lockhart, John Gibson, 339-373, and Appendix B;
his literary fate, 339-341; his life, 341-346, 359-361; The Chaldee MS. and Peter's Letters, 343-345; the novels, 346-349; the poems, 349-351; Life of Burns, 353; Life of Scott, 354-356; Life of Hook, 357-359; his editorship of the Quarterly and his criticism generally, 361-373; charges against him, 445-448 ——3, 6, 13, 33, 37, 39-44, 60, 63, 64, 108, 112, 113, 293, 294
Macaulay, Lord, 294, 384
Maguire, W., 279, 360
[Transcriber's Note: The alternative form of Maguire, Maginn, is used in the main body of the text.]
Masson, Professor, 305 sqq.
Moore, Thomas, 170-200;
a French critic on him, 170-172; his miscellaneous work, 172-174; his life, 174-183; his character, 183-185; survey of his poetry, 185-200 ——6, 27, 110.
Morley, Mr. John, 27
Newman, Cardinal, 4
North, Christopher. See Wilson, John
Peacock, Thomas Love, 234-269;
his literary position, 234, 235; his life, 236-239; some difficulties in him, 239-242; survey of his work, 242-259; its special characteristics, 257-269
Pope, Alexander, 22, 25
Praed, W. M., 374-402;
editions of him, 374-376; his life, 376-381; his early writings, 381-384; his poetical work, 385-398; Hood and Praed, 397-399; his special charm, 399-402
Quincey, Thomas de, 304-338, and Appendix A;
editions of him, 304-309; his life, 309-314; his faculty of rigmarole, 314-321; defects and merits of his work, 321-338 ——47, 282
Rogers, Samuel, 12 note
Scott, John, his duel and death, 143, 144; Appendix B
Scott, Sir Walter, 34-36, 49, 54, 63, 111, 151, 265, 273, 354-359, 406, 407
Shelley, P. B., 190, 191, 210, 247-250
Smith, Bobus, 69
Smith, Mr. Goldwin, xi, xiv
Smith, Sydney, 67-99;
the beneficence of his biographers, 67-69; his life, 69-80; his letters, 81-84; his published work, 84-99
Staël, Madame de, 126, 127
Stephen, Mr. Leslie, 4
Stevenson, Mr. R. L., 445
Sully, Mr. James, xxvii note
Swift, Jonathan, Jeffrey on, 128, 129
Tennyson, Lord, 4, 29, 292, 293, 365, 366
Thackeray, W. M., on Hazlitt, 135, 136
Thomson, James, 27
Thurlow, Lord, 10-12
Vallat, M. Jules, 171 sqq.
Veitch, Professor, 38, 40, 46
Voltaire, 81
Walker, Sarah, 139 sqq.
Wilson, John, 270-303;
Carlyle's judgment of him and another, 270-274; his life, 274-277; the Noctes, 278-288; his miscellaneous work, 288-303
Wilson, John, 3, 4, 29, 44-47.
See also Essays on De Quincey and Lockhart
Wordsworth, William, 3, 27, 117, 323
Young, Sir George, 375
"Zeta," 446
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