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CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

FREE AGAIN.-SHELLEY IN ENGLAND.

Dignified neighbor and landlord.—Visits from Lord Byron and Mr.

Wordsworth.-Infernal conduct of the angels in Paradise Lost.-

Return of hypochondria.-Descent of Liberty.-Story of Rimini.-

United States.-Visits to Lord Byron.-History of Shelley while in

KEATS, LAMB, AND COLERIDGE.

Charles Cowden Clarke.-Keats and Shelley.-Mr. Monckton Milne's

Letters and Remains of Keats." Other-worldliness."-Armitage

Brown. Keats and Lamb.-Wordsworth on Shakspeare.-Milton

dining. Keats and Byron.-Keats in Italy.-His death and per-

sonal appearance.- 'Foliage."-The Indicator.-Tasso's Aminta.

-Foolish ignorance of business.-Mr. Lockhart.-Personal appear-

ance of Lamb.-Character of his genius. His bon-mots and imagin-

ary notices of his friends.-Person of Coleridge.-Character of his

genius.-Coleridge and Hazlitt.-Coleridge's conversation and daily

VOYAGE TO ITALY.

Reasons of the author's voyage to Italy.-Desiderata in accounts of

voyagers.-Gunpowder.-Setting off-Noisy navigation of small

vessels. Cabin and berths.-Sea-captains.-Deal pilots and boat-

men.-Putting in at Ramsgate.-Condorcet's "Progress of Society."

-A French vessel and its occupants.-Setting off again.—Memora-

ble stormy season.-
n.-Character of the captain and mate.-Luigi

Rivarola. Notices of the sailors.-Watching at night.-Discom-

forts of sea in winter.-A drunken cook.-A goat and ducks.—

Hypochondria.-Dullness and superstition of sailors.-A gale of

fifty-six hours......

RETURN TO FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH LORD BYRON AND THOMAS

First sight of Lord Byron.-Jackson the prize-fighter.—Bathing at

Westminster.-Sympathy with early poems.-More prison recol-

lections. Lord Byron and the House of Peers.-Thomas Moore and

the Liberal.-Mistaken conclusions of his.-His appearance, man-

ners, and opinions.-Letters of Lord Byron

LORD BYRON IN ITALY-SHELLEY-PISA.

Alamanni and the Emperor Charles the Fifth.-Present feelings of the

Author with regard to Lord Byron.-Circumstances that modified

his Lordship's character.-Singular adventure at Monte Nero.-

Lord Byron and the Gambas.-Leghorn and Smollett.-Domicile in

Pisa. Vaccà and consumption.-Operatic scene in a drawing-room.

-Death of Shelley, and burning of his remains.—Mirth most mel-

ancholy.-Person and character of Shelley.-Lord Byron's and

Author's mode of life at Pisa.-Exterior and interior of that city.

Ever young look of Italy.—Italian mansions.-Leaning tower of

Removal to Genoa.-Shelley's house at Lerici.-Earthquake at

Lerici. Reputation of Englishmen in Italy for mad courage.-

Courage of Italians.-Porto Venere.-Fishy population.—Mari-

time Apennines.-Domiciles at Albaro.-Account of the "Lib-

eral."—Awkward mistake respecting two of its writers.-Lord

Byron and Dr. Johnson

FLORENCE-BACCHUS IN TUSCANY-THE VENUS DE' MEDICI-AND

ITALY IN GENERAL.

Florence.-Music at night.-Maiano.-Boccaccio.-May-day at

Maiano.-An English "snuggery" in the Convent of St. Baldas-

sare.-Landor.-Mr. Kirkup.-Lord Dillon.-Bacchus in Tuscany.

-Tuscan and English landscape.-Proposed English magazine

at Florence.-Christianism.-Maddalena de Medici.-The Venus

de' Medici.-Finger of Galileo.—An involuntary bumper at parting

with Florence. The cicala.-The fire-fly.-Trees of Italy.-Man-

ners and morals of the people.-Alfieri.-Maccaroni.-The move-

ment. The Pope....
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RETURN TO ENGLAND.

Traveling by vettura.—The driver.-The Apennines.-Le Maschere.

-Covigliaio.-Pietra Mala.-Poggioli.-Story of the Ants.-Skep-

ticism generated in postillions by traveling.-Bologna.-Modena.—

Contrasted character of their inhabitants.-Parma.-Piacenza.

-Asti and Alfieri.-The Po and the Alps.-Poirino.-Prudent

friars. Turin.-French and Italian dancers.-Sant-Ambrogio.-

Ancient and Modern Italy.-Passage of the Alps.-Savoy.-Lansle-

bourg.-Chambéry and Rousseau.-Lyons and Auxerre.-Statue

of Louis the Fourteenth.-Mont Blanc.-Paris.-Place of the

guillotine.—Book-stalls.—French people.-French, Italian, and En-

glish women.-Arrival in England...
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AT HOME IN ENGLAND.

Highgate and Hampstead.—Italian and English landscape.-Verses

to June. Traveling domiciles.-The Parnaso Italiano.-Idealisms

familiarized. The Arcadians of Italy.-Spenser, Milton, and other

cockney poets.-Graces and anxieties of pig-driving.-Exhausted

and befriended fortunes.-The Companion.-Sir Ralph Esher.—

Composition of verse.-A poem with a commentary.-Active mole-

cules. Inaudible utterance.-A poetical project.

LITERARY PROJECTS.

The Tatler.-Chat of the Week.-M. Van de Weyer.-The Gentle

Armor.-The True Sun.-Laman Blanchard.-Residence in Chel-

sea. Thomas Carlyle.-The London Journal.-The Seer.-Eger-

ton Webbe.-His Parodies of Martial.-Captain Sword and Captain

Pen.-Paganini.-Monthly Repository.-Blue-Stocking Revels.-

Lady Blessington...

PLAY-WRITING.-CONCLUSION.

Difficulty of meeting the literary acquirements of times and editors.

-Play-writing and present condition of the stage.-Actors out of

their place as managers.-Reasons why their profession is not more

esteemed.-Delusions practiced by them respecting the "Shaks-

pearian,"
the "legitimate," and the "national" drama.—Only

remedy for such abuses.-The Legend of Florence, and four other

dramas by the Author.-Lord Melbourne and the Author's pension.

-Ideas associated in the latter's mind with the Queen.-Amateur

acting. Removal to Kensington.-Author's latest productions and

daily habits.—Question of the Laureateship.-Political and religious

Letters of Thomas Moore

Letters of Shelley ...

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