Recollections of a Literary Life
Or, Books, Places, and People
3 Volume Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Preface
1. Various authors - Percy's Reliques
2. Irish authors - Thomas Davis, John Banim
3. Authors associated with places - Thomas Noel
4. Old authors - Abraham Cowley
5. Comic poets - J. Anstey
6. American poets - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
7. Authors sprung from the people - Thomas Holcroft
8. Authors associated with places - Beaumont and Fletcher
9. Fashionable poets - Winthrop Macworth Praed
10. Peasant poets - John Clare
11. Authors associated with places - Samuel Johnson
12. Old poets - Robert Herrick, George Withers
13. Female poets - Joanna Baillie, Catherine Fanshawe
14. Married poets - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning
15. Prose pastorals - Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia, Isaac Walton's Complete Angler. Volume 2:
1. Spanish ballads
2. Female poets - Miss Blamire, Mrs. James Gray
3. American orators - Daniel Webster
4. Old authors - Ben Jonson
5. Fashionable poets - William Robert Spencer
6. Autobiography of dramatic authors - Colley Cibber, Richard Cumberland
7. Female poets - Mrs. Clive, Mrs. Acton Tindal, Miss Day, Mrs. Robert Dering
8. Cavalier poets - Richard Lovelace, Roger l'Estrange, The Marquis of Montrose
9. Poetry that poets love - Walter Savage Landor, Leigh Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats
10. Authors associated with places - Christopher Anstey
11. American poets - John Greenleaf Whittier, Fitz-Greene Halleck
12. Voluminous authors - Hargrave's State Trials
13. Fishing songs - Mr. Doubleday, Miss Corbett
14. Authors associated with places - John Kenyon. Volume 3:
1. Authors associated with places - Thomas Chatterton, Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth
2. American poets - Oliver Wendell Holmes
3. Letters of authors - Samuel Richardson
4. Fine single poems - Sir Walter Scott, &c.
5. Authors associated with places - W. C. Bennett
6. Irish authors - Gerald Griffin
7. Mock-heroic poetry - John Hookham Frere
8. Authors associated with places - Lord Clarendon, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Hughes
9. Unrecognised poets - George Darley, the Rev. Edward William Barnard
10. American prose writers - Nathaniel Hawthorne
11. Old poets - Andrew Marvel
11. Scottish poets - William Motherwell
13. Great prose writers - Lord Bacon, John Milton, Jeremy Taylor, John Ruskin.