And with this pennant of the old times of tourney flung to the sharp winds of these days, and shivering in the rude blasts—where anarchic threats lurk and murmur—we close our preface, and bid our readers all welcome to the spread of—what our old friend Dugald Dalgetty would call—the Vivers.

D. G. M.

Edgewood, June 24, 1897.

CONTENTS.

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[CHAPTER I.]
The Lake Country,[2]
Robert Southey,[5]
His Early Life,[11]
Greta Hall,[15]
The Doctor and Last Shadows,[20]
Crabb Robinson,[24]
Thomas De Quincey,[28]
Marriage and other Flights,[34]
[CHAPTER II.]
Christopher North,[40]
Wilson in Scotland,[45]
Thomas Campbell,[52]
A Minstrel of the Border,[59]
The Waverley Dispensation,[65]
Glints of Royalty,[77]
[CHAPTER III.]
A Start in Life,[83]
Henry Brougham,[87]
Francis Jeffrey,[92]
Sydney Smith,[96]
A Highlander,[103]
Rest at Cannes,[107]
[CHAPTER IV.]
Gifford and His Quarterly,[113]
A Prince Regent,[118]
A Scholar and Poet,[125]
Landor in Italy,[132]
Landor’s Domesticities,[136]
Final Exile and Death,[138]
Prose of Leigh Hunt,[142]
Hunt’s Verse,[147]
An Irish Poet,[152]
Lalla Rookh,[157]
[CHAPTER V.]
The “First Gentleman,”[165]
Hazlitt and Hallam,[168]
Queen of a Salon,[173]
Young Bulwer and Disraeli,[178]
The Poet of Newstead,[187]
Early Verse and Marriage,[193]
[CHAPTER VI.]
Lord Byron a Husband,[201]
A Stay in London,[206]
Exile,[212]
Shelley and Godwin,[216]
Byron in Italy,[223]
Shelley Again,[225]
John Keats,[229]
Buried in Rome,[233]
Pisa and Don Juan,[237]
Missolonghi,[241]
[CHAPTER VII.]
King William’s Time,[252]
Her Majesty Victoria,[255]
Macaulay,[259]
In Politics and Verse,[265]
Parliamentarian and Historian,[270]
Some Tory Critics,[277]
Two Gone-by Story Tellers,[281]