ABSTRACT
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |6 pages
Hours of Idleness
chapter 1|6 pages
Henry P. Brougham, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review
Dated January 1808, issued February 1808, XI, 285–9
part |2 pages
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
part |17 pages
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Cantos I and II
chapter 4|5 pages
Francis Jeffrey, from his unsigned review, Edinburgh Review
Dated February 1812, issued May 1812, XIX, 466–77
chapter 5|9 pages
George Ellis, from his unsigned review, Quarterly Review
Dated March 1812, issued May 1812, VII, 180–200
part |1 pages
The Turkish Tales
chapter 6|12 pages
Jeffrey, from his unsigned review of The Corsair and The Bride of Abydos, Edinburgh Review
Dated April 1814, issued July 1814, XXIII, 198–229
chapter 7|3 pages
Ellis from his unsigned review of The Corsair and Lara, Quarterly Review
Dated July 1814, issued Autumn 1814, XI, 428–57
part |29 pages
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto III
chapter 12|14 pages
Scott, from his unsigned review, Quarterly Review
Dated October 1816, issued February 1817, XVI, 172–208
chapter 13|12 pages
Jeffrey, from his unsigned, review, Edinburgh Review
Dated December 1816, issued February 1817, XXVII, 277–310
part |10 pages
Manfred
chapter 15|4 pages
Jeffrey, from his unsigned review, Edinburgh Review
Dated August 1817, issued September 1817, XXVIII, 418–31
part |9 pages
Beppo February 1818
chapter 18|5 pages
‘Presbyter Anglicanus’, from a ‘Letter to the Author of Beppo’, Blackwood’s Magazine
June 1818, III, 323–9
part |28 pages
131Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto IV April 1818
chapter 20|10 pages
Scott, from his unsigned review, Quarterly Review
Dated April 1818, issued September 1818, XIX, 215–32
chapter 21|9 pages
John Wilson, from his unsigned review, Edinburgh Review
Dated June 1818, issued September 1818, XXX, 87–120
part |1 pages
Don Juan
chapter 25|5 pages
Leigh Hunt, from his unsigned review of Cantos I and II, Examiner
31 October 1819, pp. 700–2
chapter 27|10 pages
From John Gibson Lockhart’s anonymous Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron. 1
April/May 1821
part |1 pages
The Dramas
chapter 32|4 pages
Jeffrey, from his unsigned review of Marino Faliero, Edinburgh Review
Dated July 1821, issued September 1821, XXXV, 271–85
chapter 36|8 pages
Jeffrey, from his unsigned review of Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari and Cain, Edinburgh Review
Dated February 1822, issued April 1822, XXXVI, 413–52
chapter 37|12 pages
Reginald Heber, from his unsigned review of Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari and Cain, Quarterly Review
Dated July 1822, issued November (?) 1822, XXVII, 476–524
part |4 pages
The Vision of Judgment
part |257 pages
Don Juan (1819–21)
chapter 39|5 pages
Blackwood’s Magazine, on Don Juan Cantos VI to VIII and IX to XI
July, September 1823
chapter 42|3 pages
Dismissive comments on Byron, by Keats, Coleridge, Lamb, Southey and Wordsworth
1819–33
