INDEX
Reading edition
Algiers, Campbell’s visit to, 130.
Altona, Campbell at, 58.
Anderson, Dr Robert, 30, 37, 43, 67.
Annals of Great Britain, The, 75.
Battle of the Baltic, The, 64.
Boulogne, Campbell settles at, 139.
Campbell, Alexander, poet’s father, 10-13, 67.
——, Alison, poet’s son, 90, 99.
——, Archibald, poet’s grandfather, 10.
——, Margaret, poet’s niece, 136, 137.
——, Mrs, poet’s mother, 13, 99.
——, Mrs, poet’s wife, 80, 113, 119.
Campbell, Thomas, ancestry, 9;
birth, 11;
at Grammar School, 15;
his love for the classics, 16;
first verses, 17, 18;
at Glasgow University, 20-32;
his professors, 20;
his fellow-students, 21;
early turn for satire, 24;
first visit to Edinburgh, 25;
becomes a tutor, 27, 32;
falls in love, 29, 34;
second visit to Edinburgh, 36;
becomes a clerk, 37;
is introduced to literary society of capital, 37;
his first literary commission, 39;
‘Pleasures of Hope’ published, 43;
Continental travels, 51-62;
first visit to London, 62, 66;
returns to Edinburgh, 68;
visits Dr Currie at Liverpool, 70;
settles in London, 77;
his marriage, 81;
first child born, 83;
takes up house at Sydenham, 85;
his opinion of publishers, 89;
gets a Government pension, 91;
his ‘Gertrude of Wyoming’ published, 94;
introduced to Princess of Wales, 100;
lectures at Royal Institution, 100;
visits Paris, 102;
lectures at Liverpool and Birmingham, 106, 107;
visits Holland and Germany, 109;
founds London University, 115;
elected Lord Rector Glasgow University, 117;
active interest in Polish cause, 126;
visits Algiers, 130;
settles at Boulogne, 139;
his death, 139;
his appearance, 29, 37, 141;
social habits, 143;
not a society man, 78, 145;
as a conversationalist, 146;
his letters, 148;
his temper, chivalry, kind-heartedness, 149;
love of children, 150;
politics, 151;
religious views, 151;
literary tastes, 152;
place as a poet, 154.
Campbell, Thomas Telford, poet’s son, 83, 105, 112.
Child and the Hind, The, 137.
Cora Linn, 133.
Currie, Dr, 70, 77, 84.
Exile of Erin, The, 60.
Gertrude of Wyoming, 94.
Glasgow in Campbell’s young days, 14.
Glasgow University, Campbell Lord Rector of, 116.
Glenara, 98.
Hamburg, Campbell in, 52, 58, 115.
Hohenlinden, 57, 62.
Holland, Lord and Lady, 66.
Kant’s Philosophy, Campbell on, 61.
Kemble, J. P., 67, 71.
Klopstock, 52.
Last Man, The, 113.
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, Campbell’s projected Life of, 123.
Letters from the South, 130.
Leyden, John, 38, 63.
Lines on leaving a Scene in Bavaria, 64.
Literary Union (The) founded, 122.
Lochiel’s Warning, 72.
London University founded by Campbell, 115.
M’Cann, Tony (‘Exile of Erin’), 60.
Mackintosh, Sir James, 66.
Marryat, Captain, 125.
Melrose Abbey, Campbell on, 75.
Metropolitan Magazine, Campbell’s editorship of, 125.
Minto, Lord, 69.
Murray, John, publisher, 88, 93.
Napoleon, Campbell on, 67, 79.
Neukomm Chevalier, 126.
New Monthly Magazine, Campbell’s editorship of, 111, 123.
O’Connor’s Child, 98.
Paul, Hamilton, 21, 32.
Petrarch, Campbell’s Life of, 135.
Pilgrim of Glencoe, The, 137.
Pleasures of Hope, The, 42-48.
Poland, Campbell’s interest in, 126.
Ratisbon, Campbell at, 53, 110.
Redding, Cyrus, 111.
Reid, Dr Thomas, 12, 15.
Richardson, John, 55.
Rogers, Samuel, 67.
Scenic Annual, 133.
Schlegel, A. W., 103, 110.
Scottish Monastery, Ratisbon, 53, 54.
Shakespeare, Campbell’s edition of, 134.
Siddons, Mrs, 67;
Campbell’s Life of, 128.
Soldier’s Dream, The, 64.
Specimens of the British Poets, 84, 89, 93, 107.
St Leonards, Lines on the View from, 125.
Telford, Thomas, 71, 72, 77, 83, 130.
Theodric, 114.
Turner’s drawings for ‘Pleasures of Hope,’ 133.
Watt, Gregory, 22, 86.
Wounded Hussar, The, 40.
Ye Mariners of England, 64.