ABSTRACT
The memoirs in this collection are written by those who had personal knowledge of Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth, or who claimed to be recording the accounts of those who had such knowledge. Each volume in this set contains facsimilies of the original memoirs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|5 pages
Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, by S. T. Coleridge, Esq., 2 vols (London, 1817)
part 2|12 pages
‘Phillip Kempferhausen’ (John Wilson) Letters from the Lakes: Written During the Summer of 1818. Translated from the German’, in Blackwood’s Magazine vol. 4 (March 1819)
chapter |10 pages
Letters form the Lakes. Written During the Summer of 1818.
part 3|13 pages
‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’, in The Liberal vol. 2 (1823)
part 4|11 pages
The Spirit of the Age: or Contemporary Portraits, by William Hazlitt (London, 1825)
part 5|6 pages
Anonymous, ‘Memoir of William Wordsworth, Esq.’, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Complete in One Volume (Paris, 1828)
part 6|8 pages
‘Notes on a Tour, Chiefly Pedestrian, from Skipton in Craven, Yorkshire, to Keswick, in Cumberland’, in The Table Book, edited by William Hone, 2 vols (London, 1828)
part 7|12 pages
The Old World and the New, or, A Journal of Reflections and Observations Made on a Tour of Europe, by the Rev. Orville Dewey, Late of New Bedford, U.S., 2 vols (London and New York, 1836)
part 8|15 pages
Memorials of Mrs Hemans, with Illustrations of Her Literary Character from Her Private Correspondence, edited by Henry F. Chorley, 2 vols (London, 1836)
part 9|8 pages
Early Recollections; Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, During His Long Residence in Bristol by Joseph Cottle, 2 vols (London, 1837)
part 10|42 pages
Thomas De Quincey, ‘Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830. Nos. I-III. – William Wordsworth. By the English Opium-Eater’, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine vol. 6 (January, February, and April 1839)
part 11|7 pages
‘Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater’ in Tail’s Edinburgh Magazine vol. 7 (October 1840)
part 12|9 pages
Memoirs of the Life and Poetry of William Wordsworth, with Extracts from his Letters to the Author, by Barron Field, Esqr. Chief Justice of Gibraltar (1839, 1846), edited by Geoffrey Little (Sydney, 1975)
part 13|1 pages
The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries, 3 vols (London, 1850)
part 14|8 pages
Memoirs of a Literary Veteran; including Sketches and Anecdotes of the Most Distinguished Literary Characters from 1794 to 1849, 3 vols (London, 1851)
part 15|2 pages
Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-Laureate, D.C.L., by Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Canon of Westminster, 2 vols (London, 1851)
part 16|8 pages
Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Compiled from Authentic Sources; with Numerous Quotations from his Poems, Illustrative of his Life and Character, by January Searle, Author of ‘Life, Character, and Genius of Ebenezer Elliott’, ‘Leaves from Sherwood Forest’, etc. (London, 1852)
part 17|14 pages
Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter, from his Autobiography and Journals, edited and compiled by Tom Taylor, 3 vols (London, 1853)
part 18|9 pages
English Traits, by R. W. Emerson, Author of ‘Representative Men’, Etc (London, 1856)
part 19|12 pages
William Wordsworth; A Biography, by Edwin Paxton Hood (London, 1856)
part 20|11 pages
Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore, edited by Lord John Russell, 8 vols (London, 1853–6)
part 21|11 pages
The Angler in the Lake District; or, Piscatory Colloquies and Fishing Excursions in Westmoreland and Cumberland, by John Davy, M.D., F.R.S., Etc (London, 1857)
part 22|9 pages
Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron, by E. J. Trelawny (London, 1858)
part 23|10 pages
Beaten Paths; and Those Who Trod Them, by Thomas Colley Grattan, Author of ‘Highways and Byways’, ‘Traits of Travel’, ‘Civilized America’, Etc., 2 vols (London, 1862)
part 24|10 pages
Men I Have Known, by William Jerdan, Corresponding Member of the Real Academia de la Historia of Spain, Etc. Etc. (London, 1866)
part 25|26 pages
‘Recollections of Wordsworth and the Lake Country’, by Robert Perceval Graves, A. M., Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal, in The Afternoon Lectures on Literature and Art: Delivered in the Theatre of The Royal College of Science, S. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, In the Years 1867 & 1868 (Dublin and London, 1869)
part 26|16 pages
Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, Barrister-at-Law, F. S. A., selected and edited by Thomas Sadler, Ph.D, 3 vols (London, 1869)
part 28|11 pages
336The Life of Thomas Cooper: Written by Himself (London, 1872)
part 29|20 pages
Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge, edited by Her Daughter [Edith Coleridge], 2 vols (London, 1873)
part 30|17 pages
Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, with Letters and Other Family Memorials, edited by the Survivor of her Family [Lady Richardson] (Edinburgh, 1875)
part 31|12 pages
Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, with Memorials by Maria Weston Chapman, 3 vols (London, 1877)
part 32|11 pages
The Brothers Wiffen: Memoirs and Miscellanies, edited by Samuel Rowles Pattison, Author of ‘On the History of Evangelical Christianity’, ‘New Facts and Old Old Records’, etc. (London, 1880)
part 33|16 pages
Reminiscences by Thomas Carlyle, edited by James Anthony Froude, 2 vols (London, 1881)
part 34|13 pages
Memories of Old Friends, Being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, Cornwall, From 1835 to 1871, edited by Horace N. Pym, 2 vols (London, 1882)
part 35|26 pages
‘Reminiscences of Wordsworth among the Peasantry of Westmoreland’, by the Rev. H. D. Rawnsley, in Transactions of the Wordsworth Society (1882)
part 36|6 pages
Alaric Watts A Narrative of His Life, by His Son, Alaric Alfred Watts, 2 vols (London, 1884)
part 37|8 pages
Autobiography of Henry Taylor 1800–1875, 2 vols (London, 1885)
part 38|15 pages
Essays, Chiefly on Poetry Vol II, Essays, Literary and Ethical, by Aubrey De Vere, LI.D, 2 vols (London, 1887)
part 39|7 pages
Wordsworth and the Coleridges, with Other Memories Literary and Political, by Ellis Yarnall (New York, 1899)