separation. Lord B.'s prejudices respecting women. Family jars; Lady Byron's abilities. Lord B.'s various counter-parts. "The Page 38-45 45-49 Madame de Staël and Goëthe. Lord B.'s partiality for America; set; Lords Clare and Calthorpe; school rebellion. The Hours of Idleness. The skull goblet; a new order established 53-62 62-68 68-74 74--83 the Drury Lane Committee. Theatricals. Obstacles to writing for the stage. Kemble; Mrs. Siddons; Munden; Shakspeare; Alfieri; Maturin; Miss Baillie. Modern sensitiveness. 'Marino Page Ada. Singular coincidence. Ideas on education. Ada's birth-day. Lord Byron's melancholy and superstition. Birth-day fatalities. Death of Polidori. "The Vampyre'-foundation of the story Lord Byron's; Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.' Query to Sir Humphrey Davy. Scott, Rousseau, and Goëthe. Fulfilment of Mrs. Williams's prophecy. Unlucky numbers Lord Byron's epigrams. His hospitality. Advances towards a reconciliation with Lady Byron. Death of Lady Noel. Lord Byron's remarks on lyric poetry; Coleridge, Moore, and Campbell. Ode on Sir John Moore's funeral Swimming across the Hellespont. Adventures at Brighton and Ve- nice. Marino Faliero' and 'The Two Foscari.' Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd's prediction. Failure of Marino Faliero :' Lord Byron's epigram on the occasion. Louis Dix-huit's translation: Jeffrey's critique. Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews. Subjects for tragedies 114-124 Barry Cornwall. Cain.' Gessner's Death of Abel.' Hobhouse's opinion of Cain.' Lord B.'s defence of that poem. Goethe's 'Faust.' Letter to Murray respecting 'Cain.' Bacchanalian song. Merits of actors. Dowton and Kean. Kean's Richard the Third and Sir Giles Overreach. Garrick's dressing of Othello. Iphigenia.' Mrs. Siddons and Miss O'Neill. The elephant's legs. Stage courtship. Lamb's Specimens. Plagiarisms. Faust' 135-142 Lord Byron's Hours of Idleness.' The ineffectual potation. Se- verity of reviewers. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.' Jeffrey and Moore. Moore's challenge to Lord Byron; mis- Mr. Southey's letter in The Literary Gazette.' Lord Byron's anxiety and anger. Vision of Judgment.' Southey's critique on 'Foliage.' Shelley's A005. The Deformed Transformed:' Shelley's opinion thereon. Southey's epitaph. 'Heaven and Earth' Murray's refusal to print. Cain,' and the Lord Chan- Italian enthusiasm in favour of Dante Shelley's opinion that the study of Dante is unfavourable to writing the difficulty of translating him: Taaffe and Cary. Lord Byron and The Prophecy of Dante.' Swedenborg's disci- ples. Translations of Lord Byron's works. The greatest compli- ment ever paid him. Milton and the cat's back. Milton and Shakspeare redivivi. Lord Byron's opinion of Childe Harold,' and the inequality of his writings. Epics. Southey's 'Joan of Arc; Curse of Kehama,' &c. Don Juan' and the Iliad. Dr. Johnson's censorship defied. Intended plan of Don Juan:' ad- ventures and death of the hero Murray's plea the Cookery-book his sheet-anchor: real cause of his anxiety for Lord Byron's fame. Douglas Kinnaird's friend- ship. Murray's offer for 'Don Juan,' per Canto. Piracy of Don Juan,' and its cause. The bishops. Murray's dislike to Shelley. Page The Quarterly Review' and its bullies. A literary set-to. Murray and Galignani. Murray's purchase of 'Cain,'' The Two Foscari,' and Sardanapalus.' The deed. Reconciliation with Murray. Cain,' and the Anti-constitutional Society. Murray, Lord Byron, and the Navy List.' Last book of Lord Byron's pub- lished by Murray. Opening fire of 'The Quarterly.' The Wanderer." Coleridge's Christabel,' and Scott's Metrical Tales.' Sir W. Scott's talents at recitation. An English October day. Unconscious plagiarism. Kubla Khan.' Madame de Staël. Coleridge's Memoirs. Grammont. Alfieri's Life, and Lord B.'s Confessions. Coleridge's want of identity. Poets in 1795. . . 169-176 Intended Auto da fé. Priestly charity. Duchess of Lucca. Lord Complaint against the East India Company. Lord B.'s liberality. Balloons and Horace. Steam. Philosophical systems. Romances. Lewis's 'Monk:' its groundwork. Secret of Walter Scott's in- spiration. The Bleeding Nun.' Ghost stories: the haunted room at Manheim; Mina and the passing-bell. Lewis and Matthias. 'Abellino.' 'Pizarro' and Sheridan. The Castle Spectre' in Drury Lane. Lord B.'s sketch of Sheridan. The age of companiability. Monk Lewis and his brother's ghost. Madame de Staël, Lewis, and the Slave Trade. A fatal emetic 183-192 Imputed plagiarisms. A dose of Wordsworth physic. Shelley's admiration of Wordsworth. Peter Bell's ass, and the family. circle. The Republican trio. Comparisons. The Botany Bay Eclogue, the Panegyric of Martin the Regicide, and 'Wat Tyler,' versus the Laureate odes and the Waterloo eulogium. The par Walter Scott's Novels. Rarity of novelty. Plagiarisms. Claims 192-197 Scott, the great Unknown: two anecdotes in proof. Scott's prose Parson N*tt, the would-be Bishop. Warburton's 'Legation of Moses' no authority. Poets and penknives. Lord Byron's return from Greece in 1812; attachment to the Morea; Second Canto of 'Childe Harold.' Lady Jersey. Brummell. A hot-pressed dar- ling. The Corsair.' Polidori. The four trials. An adventure. Love in high life. A rupture. Female espionage: the disguise: Imputed ingratitude towards a certain personage; defence. Pre- Fiorabella's flowers. The Giaour' and the sage reviewer. Shelley 197-202 202-208 208-215 215-222 |