Some Diversions of a Man of Letters - Edmund Gosse

INDEX

Abbaye de Creteil, [303-4]
Acton, Lord, [328]
Addison, J., relation of, to Romanticists, [70-1]; [68], [76], [82]
Agnes de Castro, by Catharine Trotter, [43-5]
Akenside, [74]
Allard-Méeus, J., [273]
Alroy, by B. Disraeli, [161]
American criticism, and Edgar Allan Poe, [104], [105]
Anne, Queen, [58]
Annabel Lee, by E.A. Poe, [103], [112]
Argyll, Duke of, [320]
Ariosto, [84], [85]
Arnauld, Angelique, [39]
Arnold, M., [3], [68], [71], [133], [267]
Arnold, Dr. T., Mr. Strachey's portrait of, [326-7]
Asquith, Mr., Romanes lecture of, [332-5]

Bacon, [17]
Bagehot, W., [96]
Balfour, A.J., re standards of taste, [4], [5], [10]
Ballenden, Sarah, [40]
Baring, M., poems of, [265], [273-5]
Barrie, Sir J., [100]
Barry, Mrs., [57]
Batsford, Lord Redesdale at, [217-8], [222], [224-8], [229]
Baudelaire, [106]
Bayle, [59]
Behn, Aphra, [39]
Bell, T., of Selborne, [182]
Berkeley, [98]
Betterton, [48], [57]
Birch, Rev. Dr., [61]
Blake, W., [5], [90]
Blessington, Lady, [131]
Boileau, [70], [77], [82]
Booth, [57]
Bottomley, G., [262]
Bridges, R., War poetry of, [161]; [110]
de Brillac, Mlle., [44]
Brontë, Charlotte, dislike of Dewsbury, [142-3];
message of, arose from pain and resistance, [144];
her unhappiness, its causes, [145-6];
defiance the note of her writings, [146-50]
Brontë, Emily, [149]
Brontës, The Challenge of the, address delivered on, [141-50];
their connexion with Dewsbury, [141-2]
Brooke, Rupert, poems of, [268-70]
Browning, R., [9], [81], [132]
Brunetière, [7]
Bruxambille, [95]
Bryant, [107], [108]
Bulwer-Lytton, E., ambiguity of his position in literature, [117];
R. Lytton's biography, [118], [121];
Lord Lytton's biography, [117], [118-9], [120], [122], [129], [130], [131], [133], [137];
autobiography, [119-20];
story of matrimonial troubles, [121-9];
character, [129-30];
acquaintances and friends, [130-2];
relations with contemporary writers and poets, [132-4];
stormy life, [134];
unfavourable attitude of critics towards, [134-5];
popularity of his writings, [135-6];
versatility and merits, [136-7]; [178]
Bulwer-Lytton, Mrs., opposition to Bulwer-Lytton's marriage, [124-7]
Burghclere, Lady, open letter to, on Lady D. Nevill, [181-96]
Burnet, George, [52], [53], [54], [55], [58], [59], [60]
Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop, patron of the Trotters, [41], [52], [53]
Burnet, Mrs., [52], [53]
Burney, Dr., [33]
Burton, [96]
Byron, [76], [104], [108], [148], [161-2]

Carlyle, [100]
Carlyle, Mrs., her opinion of Keats, [9]
Catullus, [84]
Charles II, [40], [41]
Chateaubriand, [74]
Chatterton, [87]
Cibber, Colley, [44]
Classic poetry, Romanticists' revolt against principles of, [70-90]
Clough, A.H., [325], [328]
Cockburn, Mr., [60], [61]
Coleridge, [104], [108], [274]
Collier, Jeremy, attack on stage immorality, [47]
Collins, [86], [110]
Colonisation, England's debt to Walter Raleigh, [24-5]
Congreve, Catherine Trotter's relations with, [43], [47], [48], [50]; [57], [58]
Coningsby, by B. Disraeli, [153], [164], [165-6], [169], [170-2], [173]
Contarini Fleming, by B. Disraeli, [159-61], [162]
Corbett, N.M.F., poems of, [275]
Cowes in war time, [219-21]
Cowley, [82]
Cowper, [253]
Crabbe, G., Hardy compared with, [248]
Cranch, C.P., [105]
Cromer, Lord, essay on, [196-216];
intellectual and literary activity, [197-8];
as a speaker, [198-200];
interest in House of Lords Library, [200];
classical tastes, [200-203];
conversation, attitude to life and letters, [204-8];
correspondence and reflections, [208-10];
humour, [210-12];
verse, [212-15];
literary activities, [215-16]

Dacier, Mme., [52]
Dacre, by Countess of Morley, [153], [156]
Dante, [225-6]
Dartmouth, George, Earl of, [40], [42]
D'Aubigné, [78]
Daudet, A., [252]
Daudet, E., [229-30]
Davies, W.H., [262]
De Vere, Mrs., [59]
Devey, Miss, "Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton," by, [121]
Dewsbury, the Brontës' connexion with, [141-2]
Dickens, C, [100], [128], [131]
Disraeli, B., novels of, address, [153-78];
not taken seriously as an author, [153-4];
three periods of writing, [154-5];
contemporary fiction, [155-6];
Vivian Grey, [156-9];
The Young Duke, [157];
Henrietta Temple, [159];
Contarini Fleming, [159-60];
Byron's influence on, [161];
Voltaire's influence on, [162];
fascinated by Venice, [163];
Venetia, [163];
Parliamentary experience and literary results, [164];
Coningsby, [165-6];
Sybil, [167-8];
Tancred, [169-72];
Prime Minister, [172];
Lothair, [173-8]; [131], [135]
Donne, J., [78], [111], [236], [244], [252]
Dorset, Charles, Earl of, [43]
Dowden, [34]
Doyle, Sir A.C., [103]
Dryden, [34], [49], [50], [70], [82], [274]
Du Bos, Abbé, [90]
Durham, Lord, [131]
Dyer, [70]

Elizabeth, Queen, sympathy between Raleigh and, [18]
Eloisa to Abelard, by Pope, its appeal to Romanticists, [83-4]
Emerson, [107]
Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey, review of, [318-32]
English Poetry, The Future of, [289-309];
instances of national lapses in poetic output, [290];
necessity of novelty of expression and difficulties arising, [291-2];
advantages of vernacular poetry, [293];
future poetry bound to dispense with obvious description and reflection and to take on greater subtlety of expression, [294-7];
Wordsworth's speculations concerning nineteenth-century poetry, [298-9];
prospect of social poetry, [299-301];
"effusion of natural sensibility" more probable, [302-3];
French experiments, [303-4];
as to disappearance of erotic poetry, [305-6];
dramatic poetry and symbolism, [306-9]
Essay on Criticism, by Pope, Romanticists' attack upon, [71-4]
Essay on Genius of Pope, by J. Warton, [80-3]

Farquhar, [48]
Fatal Friendship, by C. Trotter, [47-8]
Fawcett, Rev. J., [97]
Fenn, Mr., [60]
Fletcher, John, songs of, [35]
For Annie, by E.A. Poe, [112]
Ford, songs of, [35]
Forster, John, [131-2], [133]
France, Anatole, [7]

Gaskell, Mrs., [141]
Gautier, T., [6], [10]
Genoa, Duke of, [133]
Georgian poetry, its pre-war characteristics, [261-2]
Gibbon, [98]
Gibson, W.W., [262]
Gilbert, Sir H., [25]
Gilpin, [87]
Godolphin, Henrietta, [58]
Goethe, [161]
de Goncourt, E., [252]
Gongora, [78]
Gordon, General, [15];
Mr. Strachey's portrait of, [329-30]
Gore, Mrs., [178]
de Gourmont, Rémy, his opinion of Sully-Prudhomme, [9], [10]
de Gournay, Mlle., [39]
Granville, [47]
Graves, R., poetry of, [280-1]
Gray, [89], [108]
Greene, [32]
Grenfell, J., poems of, [271-3]
Guiana, Raleigh's "gold mine" in, [20]

Halifax, Lord, [50]
Handel, [80]
Harcourt, Mrs., [57]
Hardy, Thomas, lyrical poetry of, [233-58];
independence of his career as a poet, [233-4];
unity and consistence of his poetry, [234];
sympathy with Swinburne, [235];
historic development of lyrics, [236];
novel writing interfering with, [237-8];
place of poetry in his literary career, [238];
"Wessex Ballads" and "Poems of Past and Present," [238-40];
"The Dynasts" and "Times' Laughing Stocks," [240-2];
"Satires of Circumstance," [242-3];
"Moments of Vision," [243-4];
technical quality of his poetry, [244];
metrical forms, [245-6];
pessimistic conception of life, [247-8];
compared with Crabbe, [248];
consolation found by, [249-51];
compared with Wordsworth, [251];
human sympathy, [251];
range of subjects, [252-5];
speculations on immortality, [256];
"The Dynasts," [68], [257];
unchangeableness of his art, [257-8];
"Song of the Soldiers," [263]
Hawthorne, [107]
Hayley, [5]
Hazlitt, [301]
Henrietta Temple, by B. Disraeli, [153], [159]
Heywood, songs of, [35]
Higgons, Bevil, [43]
Hobbes, [98]
Hodgson, W.N., [284]
Homer, [12]
Hooker, [17]
Hope, H.T., [164]
Housman, A.E., [268]
Hugo, V., [6], [12], [111], [134]
Hume, [98]
Hunt, Leigh, [104]

Inglis, Dr., [51], [58]
Ireland, Raleigh in, [23]