Robert Southey: The Critical Heritage (The Collected Critical Heritage : the Romantics)

Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 PREFACE......Page 16 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 18 ABBREVIATIONS......Page 20 INTRODUCTION......Page 22 NOTE ON THE TEXT......Page 56 Unsigned review, Critical Review, November 1794......Page 58 Unsigned notice, British Critic, May 1795......Page 59 WORDSWORTH, from a letter to William Matthews, March 1796......Page 61 JOHN AIKIN, unsigned review, Monthly Review, April 1796......Page 62 From an unsigned review, Critical Review, June 1796......Page 64 LAMB, from a letter to Coleridge, June 1796......Page 66 Unsigned notice, Monthly Magazine, July 1796......Page 67 From an unsigned review, Analytical Review, 1796......Page 68 COLERIDGE, from three letters, November and December 1796, March 1797......Page 70 COLERIDGE, from two letters, December 1796 and April 1797......Page 72 JOHN AIKIN, unsigned review, Monthly Review, March 1797......Page 75 Parodies in the Anti-Jacobin, November and December 1797......Page 76 LAMB, letter to Southey, March 1799......Page 82 Unsigned review, British Critic, September 1801......Page 84 Unsigned review, Monthly Mirror, October 1801......Page 85 From an unsigned review, Monthly Magazine, January 1802......Page 88 FRANCIS JEFFREY, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, October 1802......Page 89 WILLIAM TAYLOR, unsigned review, Critical Review, December 1803......Page 112 WALTER SCOTT on Southey as translator, Edinburgh Review, October 1803......Page 117 From an unsigned review, British Critic, November 1804......Page 118 WORDSWORTH, from two letters to Sir George Beaumont, June, July 1805......Page 121 DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, from a letter to Lady Beaumont, June 1805......Page 122 JOHN FERRIAR, unsigned review, Monthly Review, October 1805......Page 123 From an unsigned review, Imperial Review, November 1805......Page 125 From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, December 1805......Page 127 From an unsigned review, Literary Journal, 1805......Page 129 From an unsigned review, General Review of British and Foreign Literature, June 1806......Page 132 From an unsigned review, Critical Review, February 1805......Page 134 WILLIAM TAYLOR, unsigned review, Annual Review, 1806......Page 136 From an unsigned review, Universal Magazine, July 1807......Page 138 FRANCIS JEFFREY, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, January 1808......Page 142 CHRISTOPHER LAKE MOODY, unsigned review, Monthly Review, April 1808......Page 145 Southey as editor, Cabinet, March 1808......Page 148 COLERIDGE, from a letter to Humphry Davy, December 1808......Page 149 MRS THRALE on Southey, August 1808......Page 150 BYRON, satire in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1809......Page 151 From an unsigned review, Monthly Mirror, February 1811......Page 153 From an unsigned review, Critical Review, March 1811......Page 155 JOHN FOSTER, unsigned review, Eclectic Review, April 1811......Page 159 From an unsigned review, Literary Panorama, June 1811......Page 167 From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, September 1810......Page 169 JOSEPH LOWE, unsigned review, Monthly Review, December 1812......Page 171 SHELLEY on Southey, 1811 12......Page 175 BYRON on Southey, 1811 13......Page 178 HENRY CRABB ROBINSON on Southey, 1811 15......Page 179 JAMES SMITH, parody of Southey, 1812......Page 182 WALTER SCOTT recommends Southey as Poet Laureate, September 1813......Page 190 From an unsigned review, Critical Review, July 1813......Page 192 From an unsigned review, British Critic, October 1813......Page 194 From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, June 1814......Page 195 From an unsigned review, Theatrical Inquisitor, December 1814......Page 196 JOHN HERMAN MERIVALE, unsigned review, Monthly Review, March 1815......Page 197 GROSVENOR CHARLES BEDFORD, unsigned review, Quarterly Review, April 1815......Page 200 JOHN TAYLOR COLERIDGE, unsigned review, British Critic, April 1815......Page 204 LAMB, from a letter to Southey, May 1815......Page 207 From an unsigned review, Christian Observer, September 1815......Page 209 From an unsigned review, British Review, November 1815......Page 211 From an unsigned review, Critical Review, February 1814......Page 215 From an unsigned review, Scourge, February 1814......Page 217 Unsigned review, Eclectic Review, April 1814......Page 219 From an unsigned review, British Critic, July 1814......Page 225 From an unsigned review, Critical Review, May 1816......Page 227 From an unsigned review, Monthly Review, June 1816......Page 228 From an unsigned review, Augustan Review, July 1816......Page 229 JOSIAH CONDER, unsigned review, Eclectic Review, August 1816......Page 231 FRANCIS JEFFREY, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, June 1816......Page 236 WILLIAM HAZLITT, unsigned review, Examiner, July 1816......Page 240 From an unsigned review, Augustan Review, August 1816......Page 243 Unsigned notice, New Monthly Magazine, August 1816......Page 245 JAMES HOGG, parody in The Poetic Mirror, 1816......Page 246 WILLIAM HONE, Reformists' Register, February 1817......Page 253 WILLIAM HAZLITT, unsigned review, Examiner, March 1817......Page 254 From a debate in the House of Commons, March 1817......Page 257 From an unsigned review, Black Dwarf, March 1817......Page 260 Unsigned notice, Literary Gazette, March 1817......Page 261 BYRON, from a letter to John Murray, May 1817......Page 263 Southey, satirized: The Changeling, 1817......Page 264 LEIGH HUNT, 'Extraordinary Case of the Late Mr. Southey', Examiner, May 1817......Page 267 Unsigned notice, Monthly Review, June 1817......Page 274 Unsigned notice, New Monthly Magazine, June 1817......Page 276 GEORGE TICKNOR meets Southey, May 1817......Page 277 COLERIDGE on Southey, 1817......Page 279 BYRON, dedication of Don Juan, 1818......Page 282 THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK on Southey, 1818......Page 286 'The nine-pin of reviews', BYRON on Southey, 1819......Page 287 Unsigned notice, Monthly Magazine, June 1820......Page 293 RICHARD WATSON, a Methodist view, 1820......Page 294 JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, unsigned review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, February 1824......Page 300 From an unsigned review, Literary Gazette, March 1821......Page 305 From an unsigned review, Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review, March 1821......Page 306 DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, from a letter to Mrs Clarkson, March 1821......Page 307 From an unsigned review, Monthly Review, June 1821......Page 308 BYRON, The Two Foscari, 1821......Page 311 Southey satirized: Peter Pindar's Ghost, 1821......Page 314 BYRON's Vision of Judgment, 1822......Page 316 From an unsigned review, Literary Gazette, December 1822......Page 324 From an unsigned review, Monthly Censor, March 1823......Page 326 From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, July 1823......Page 328 WORDSWORTH, from a letter to Southey, February-March 1827......Page 329 From an unsigned review, Universal Review, March 1824......Page 330 From an unsigned review, British Critic, May 1824......Page 331 From an unsigned review, Examiner, October 1824......Page 332 WILLIAM HAZLITT, The Spirit of the Age, 1824......Page 335 From an unsigned review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, September 1825......Page 344 From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, 1825......Page 345 WILLIAM BENBOW, A Scourge for the Laureate, 1825(?)......Page 347 THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK, 'Fly-by-Night', 1825 6......Page 349 WILLIAM HAZLITT on Southey's prose style, 1826......Page 352 JOHN HENRY NEWMAN on Southey's epics, 1829......Page 353 WORDSWORTH, from a letter to George Huntly Gordon, May 1829......Page 355 From an unsigned review, Monthly Review, 1829......Page 356 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, January 1830......Page 362 From an unsigned review, Fraser's Magazine, June 1830......Page 401 JOHN STUART MILL on Southey, October 1831......Page 407 BULWER-LYTTON on Southey, 1833......Page 408 JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, unsigned review, Quarterly Review, March 1834......Page 411 HENRY CRABB ROBINSON on The Doctor, 1836 8......Page 415 THOMAS CARLYLE meets Southey, February 1835......Page 416 GEORGE TICKNOR, reunion with Southey, September 1835......Page 417 Evaluation by HENRY CRABB ROBINSON, January 1839......Page 418 HERMAN MERIVALE on Southey's poetry, Edinburgh Review, January 1839......Page 419 Reminiscences by THOMAS DE QUINCEY, 1839......Page 429 WORDSWORTH's epitaph, 1843......Page 437 LORD SHAFTESBURY on Southey's character, March 1843......Page 438 WORDSWORTH on Southey and Coleridge, October 1844......Page 439 JOSEPH COTTLE on Southey in early life, 1847......Page 440 JOHN ANSTER, unsigned review, North British Review, February 1850......Page 441 JOHN HENRY NEWMAN on Southey's epics, March 1850......Page 443 CHARLOTTE BRONT on Southey, April 1850......Page 444 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, Fraser's Magazine, December 1850......Page 445 JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART and WHITWELL ELWIN, Quarterly Review, December 1850......Page 451 WILLIAM BODHAM DONNE, Edinburgh Review, April 1851......Page 461 WALTER BAGEHOT on Southey, 1853......Page 469 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE on Southey, 1855......Page 470 SAMUEL ROGERS on Southey, 1856......Page 471 Southey as essayist and reviewer, Bentley's Miscellany, 1856......Page 472 Southey's character: a tribute from THACKERAY, 1860......Page 475 GEORGE BORROW on Southey, 1862......Page 477 LEWIS CARROLL parodies Southey, 1865......Page 478 THOMAS CARLYLE's reminiscences of Southey, January-March 1867......Page 480 JOHN DENNIS on Southey's prose, 1876......Page 488 GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS on the versification of Thalaba, 1878......Page 494 EDWARD DOWDEN on Southey, 1879......Page 495 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 504 INDEX......Page 506 LIONEL MADDEN LIONEL MADDEN Book Cover 1 Title 4 Contents 5 PREFACE 16 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 18 ABBREVIATIONS 20 INTRODUCTION 22 NOTE ON THE TEXT 56 Unsigned review, Critical Review, November 1794 58 Unsigned notice, British Critic, May 1795 59 WORDSWORTH, from a letter to William Matthews, March 1796 61 JOHN AIKIN, unsigned review, Monthly Review, April 1796 62 From an unsigned review, Critical Review, June 1796 64 LAMB, from a letter to Coleridge, June 1796 66 Unsigned notice, Monthly Magazine, July 1796 67 From an unsigned review, Analytical Review, 1796 68 COLERIDGE, from three letters, November and December 1796, March 1797 70 COLERIDGE, from two letters, December 1796 and April 1797 72 JOHN AIKIN, unsigned review, Monthly Review, March 1797 75 Parodies in the Anti-Jacobin, November and December 1797 76 LAMB, letter to Southey, March 1799 82 Unsigned review, British Critic, September 1801 84 Unsigned review, Monthly Mirror, October 1801 85 From an unsigned review, Monthly Magazine, January 1802 88 FRANCIS JEFFREY, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, October 1802 89 WILLIAM TAYLOR, unsigned review, Critical Review, December 1803 112 WALTER SCOTT on Southey as translator, Edinburgh Review, October 1803 117 From an unsigned review, British Critic, November 1804 118 WORDSWORTH, from two letters to Sir George Beaumont, June, July 1805 121 DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, from a letter to Lady Beaumont, June 1805 122 JOHN FERRIAR, unsigned review, Monthly Review, October 1805 123 From an unsigned review, Imperial Review, November 1805 125 From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, December 1805 127 From an unsigned review, Literary Journal, 1805 129 From an unsigned review, General Review of British and Foreign Literature, June 1806 132 From an unsigned review, Critical Review, February 1805 134 WILLIAM TAYLOR, unsigned review, Annual Review, 1806 136 From an unsigned review, Universal Magazine, July 1807 138 FRANCIS JEFFREY, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, January 1808 142 CHRISTOPHER LAKE MOODY, unsigned review, Monthly Review, April 1808 145 Southey as editor, Cabinet, March 1808 148 COLERIDGE, from a letter to Humphry Davy, December 1808 149 MRS THRALE on Southey, August 1808 150 BYRON, satire in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1809 151 From an unsigned review, Monthly Mirror, February 1811 153 From an unsigned review, Critical Review, March 1811 155 JOHN FOSTER, unsigned review, Eclectic Review, April 1811 159 From an unsigned review, Literary Panorama, June 1811 167 From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, September 1810 169 JOSEPH LOWE, unsigned review, Monthly Review, December 1812 171 SHELLEY on Southey, 1811 12 175 BYRON on Southey, 1811 13 178 HENRY CRABB ROBINSON on Southey, 1811 15 179 JAMES SMITH, parody of Southey, 1812 182 WALTER SCOTT recommends Southey as Poet Laureate, September 1813 190 From an unsigned review, Critical Review, July 1813 192 From an unsigned review, British Critic, October 1813 194 From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, June 1814 195 From an unsigned review, Theatrical Inquisitor, December 1814 196 JOHN HERMAN MERIVALE, unsigned review, Monthly Review, March 1815 197 GROSVENOR CHARLES BEDFORD, unsigned review, Quarterly Review, April 1815 200 JOHN TAYLOR COLERIDGE, unsigned review, British Critic, April 1815 204 LAMB, from a letter to Southey, May 1815 207 From an unsigned review, Christian Observer, September 1815 209 From an unsigned review, British Review, November 1815 211 From an unsigned review, Critical Review, February 1814 215 From an unsigned review, Scourge, February 1814 217 Unsigned review, Eclectic Review, April 1814 219 From an unsigned review, British Critic, July 1814 225 From an unsigned review, Critical Review, May 1816 227 From an unsigned review, Monthly Review, June 1816 228 From an unsigned review, Augustan Review, July 1816 229 JOSIAH CONDER, unsigned review, Eclectic Review, August 1816 231 FRANCIS JEFFREY, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, June 1816 236 WILLIAM HAZLITT, unsigned review, Examiner, July 1816 240 From an unsigned review, Augustan Review, August 1816 243 Unsigned notice, New Monthly Magazine, August 1816 245 JAMES HOGG, parody in The Poetic Mirror, 1816 246 WILLIAM HONE, Reformists' Register, February 1817 253 WILLIAM HAZLITT, unsigned review, Examiner, March 1817 254 From a debate in the House of Commons, March 1817 257 From an unsigned review, Black Dwarf, March 1817 260 Unsigned notice, Literary Gazette, March 1817 261 BYRON, from a letter to John Murray, May 1817 263 Southey, satirized: The Changeling, 1817 264 LEIGH HUNT, 'Extraordinary Case of the Late Mr. Southey', Examiner, May 1817 267 Unsigned notice, Monthly Review, June 1817 274 Unsigned notice, New Monthly Magazine, June 1817 276 GEORGE TICKNOR meets Southey, May 1817 277 COLERIDGE on Southey, 1817 279 BYRON, dedication of Don Juan, 1818 282 THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK on Southey, 1818 286 'The nine-pin of reviews', BYRON on Southey, 1819 287 Unsigned notice, Monthly Magazine, June 1820 293 RICHARD WATSON, a Methodist view, 1820 294 JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, unsigned review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, February 1824 300 From an unsigned review, Literary Gazette, March 1821 305 From an unsigned review, Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review, March 1821 306 DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, from a letter to Mrs Clarkson, March 1821 307 From an unsigned review, Monthly Review, June 1821 308 BYRON, The Two Foscari, 1821 311 Southey satirized: Peter Pindar's Ghost, 1821 314 BYRON's Vision of Judgment, 1822 316 From an unsigned review, Literary Gazette, December 1822 324 From an unsigned review, Monthly Censor, March 1823 326 From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, July 1823 328 WORDSWORTH, from a letter to Southey, February-March 1827 329 From an unsigned review, Universal Review, March 1824 330 From an unsigned review, British Critic, May 1824 331 From an unsigned review, Examiner, October 1824 332 WILLIAM HAZLITT, The Spirit of the Age, 1824 335 From an unsigned review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, September 1825 344 From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, 1825 345 WILLIAM BENBOW, A Scourge for the Laureate, 1825(?) 347 THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK, 'Fly-by-Night', 1825 6 349 WILLIAM HAZLITT on Southey's prose style, 1826 352 JOHN HENRY NEWMAN on Southey's epics, 1829 353 WORDSWORTH, from a letter to George Huntly Gordon, May 1829 355 From an unsigned review, Monthly Review, 1829 356 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, January 1830 362 From an unsigned review, Fraser's Magazine, June 1830 401 JOHN STUART MILL on Southey, October 1831 407 BULWER-LYTTON on Southey, 1833 408 JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, unsigned review, Quarterly Review, March 1834 411 HENRY CRABB ROBINSON on The Doctor, 1836 8 415 THOMAS CARLYLE meets Southey, February 1835 416 GEORGE TICKNOR, reunion with Southey, September 1835 417 Evaluation by HENRY CRABB ROBINSON, January 1839 418 HERMAN MERIVALE on Southey's poetry, Edinburgh Review, January 1839 419 Reminiscences by THOMAS DE QUINCEY, 1839 429 WORDSWORTH's epitaph, 1843 437 LORD SHAFTESBURY on Southey's character, March 1843 438 WORDSWORTH on Southey and Coleridge, October 1844 439 JOSEPH COTTLE on Southey in early life, 1847 440 JOHN ANSTER, unsigned review, North British Review, February 1850 441 JOHN HENRY NEWMAN on Southey's epics, March 1850 443 CHARLOTTE BRONT on Southey, April 1850 444 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, Fraser's Magazine, December 1850 445 JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART and WHITWELL ELWIN, Quarterly Review, December 1850 451 WILLIAM BODHAM DONNE, Edinburgh Review, April 1851 461 WALTER BAGEHOT on Southey, 1853 469 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE on Southey, 1855 470 SAMUEL ROGERS on Southey, 1856 471 Southey as essayist and reviewer, Bentley's Miscellany, 1856 472 Southey's character: a tribute from THACKERAY, 1860 475 GEORGE BORROW on Southey, 1862 477 LEWIS CARROLL parodies Southey, 1865 478 THOMAS CARLYLE's reminiscences of Southey, January-March 1867 480 JOHN DENNIS on Southey's prose, 1876 488 GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS on the versification of Thalaba, 1878 494 EDWARD DOWDEN on Southey, 1879 495 BIBLIOGRAPHY 504 INDEX 506