Some Diversions of a Man of Letters - Edmund Gosse

James I, distrust and treatment of Raleigh, [19], [20], [21]
James II, [42]
Johnson, Dr., his opinion of the Wartons, [86], [98]
Jowett, Dr., [320]

Keats, Mrs. Carlyle's opinion of, [9]; [5], [90], [104], [105]
King, Peter, [53], [59]
Kipling, R., poetry of, [300]

Landon, Letitia, [131]
Lansdowne, Lord, [191]
Lauderdale, Earl of, [42]
Lauderdale, Maitland, Duke of, [40], [41]
Lawson, H., poems of, [284]
Lee, [50]
Leibnitz, [42], [54], [55], [56], [59]
Lemaître, J., [7]
Lewis, "Monk," [162]
Locke, Catharine Trotter's defence of, [53-5;]
death of, [55]; [42]
Lockhart, [135]
Lodge, [32]
Lothair, by B. Disraeli, [173-8]
Love at a Loss, by Catharine Trotter, [51]
Lowell, [108]
Lucas, Lord, [274]
Lyly, John, [31]
Lytton, Bulwer-, see Bulwer-Lytton.
Lytton, Lord, biography of Bulwer-Lytton, [117], [118-19], [120], [122], [129], [130], [131], [133], [137]
Lytton, R., biography of Bulwer-Lytton, [118], [121]

Macaulay, Lord, [320-1]
Macpherson, [86]
Malebranche, [52]
Malherbe, [70], [77]
Mallarmé, [77], [106]
Malory's Morte d'Arthur, [85]
Manley, Mrs., [44], [45], [46], [61]
Manning, Cardinal, Mr. Strachey's portrait of, [323], [330-2]
Manoa, [19]
Mant, [73]
Marinetti, M., [305], [318]
Marini, [78]
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, [57]
Marlborough, Duke of, Catharine Trotter's poem of welcome to, [58]
Marlowe, songs of, [34]
Marsh, E., [261]
Masham, Lady, [55], [56], [59]
Massinger, [35]
Melbourne, Lord, [131]
Memories, by Lord Redesdale, [216], [217], [219], [221]
Milton, influence upon eighteenth-century poetry, [79]; [82], [110]
Mitford, Major Hon. C, [218]
Mockel, A., [112]
Moments of Vision, by T. Hardy, [243-4]
Monckton-Milnes, Sir R., [133]
Morris, [104]
Myers, F., [320]

Nevill, Lady Dorothy, Open Letter to Lady Burghclere on, [181-96];
memoirs of, [181-2];
writer's friendship with, [182];
appearance and physical strength, [183-4];
characteristics, [184-5];
a spectator of life, [186-7];
attitude to the country, [187];
wit, conversation and correspondence, [187-92];
relation to literature and art, [192-4];
emotional nature, [194-6]
Nevill, Ralph, Memoirs of Lady D. Nevill by, [181-2]
Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of, [39]
Nichols, R., poetry of, [276-80]
Nietzsche, [219-20]
Nightingale, Florence, Mr. Strachey's Life of, [324]
Norris, John, [52], [53]

Obermann, [76]
Observations on the Faerie Queene, by T. Warton, [84-6]
Ode on the Approach of Summer, by T. Warton, [79]
Odes, by J. Warton, [69], [75], [80]
Otway, [50]

Panmure, Lord, [325-6]
Paris, Gaston, [7], [8]
Parnell, [76]
Parr, Dr. S., [120]
Pater, W., [71]
Patmore, C., [237]
Peacock, [104]
Peele, [32]
Péguy, C., [268]
Pelham, by Sir E. Bulwer-Lytton, the author of, [117-37]; [135], [155]
Pepys, S., [27]
Perth, 4th Earl of, [40], [42]
Philip van Artevelde, by H. Taylor, [107]
Piers, Lady, [50], [51]
Piers, Sir G., [50]
Pix, Mrs. Mary, [45], [46], [61]
Poe, E.A., centenary of, address on, [103-13];
importance as a poet ignored, [103];
original want of recognition of, [104-5];
his reaction to unfriendly criticism, [105-6];
essential qualities of his genius, [106-7];
contemporary conception of poetry, [107-8];
his ideal of poetry, [108];
influences upon, [108-9];
early verses, poetic genius in, [109];
melodiousness of, [110-11];
symbolism of, [112-13]
Poems and Ballads, by A.C. Swinburne, Bulwer-Lytton's support of, [133-4]
Poems of Past and Present, by T. Hardy, [238-40]
Pope, Romanticists' revolt against classicism of, [70-90]; [68]
Prussia, Sophia Charlotte, Queen of, [58]

Rabelais, [90]
Radcliffe, Mrs., [85], [162]
Raleigh, North Carolina, foundation of, [25-6]
Raleigh, W., junr., [20]
Raleigh, Sir W., address delivered on Tercentenary celebration of, [15-27];
patriotism and hatred of Spain, [15-17], [21-2];
character, [18];
adventurous nature, [18-19];
James I and, [19-20];
his El Dorado dreams, [20];
fall and trial, [21];
savage aspects of, [23];
as a naval strategist, [23-4];
genius as coloniser, [24-5];
imprisonment and execution, [26-7]
Ramsay, Allan, [70]
Redesdale, Lord, last days of, [216-30];
literary career, [216-7];
vitality: pride in authorship and garden, [217-8];
death of son, [218];
"Memories," [219];
loneliness and problem of occupying his time, [219-22];
origin of last book, its theme, [222-4];
last days, [224-30]
René, [76]
Rentoul, L., poems of, [284]
Retté, A., [112]
Reynolds, [104]
Ritson, Joseph, attack upon T. Warton, [88-9]
Roanoke, Virginia, British settlement in, [25]
Roche, Lord and Lady, [23]
Romanticism, Two Pioneers of, Joseph and Thomas Warton, address on, [65-90]
Romantic movement, features of, [71-90]
Rossetti, D.G., [104], [136]
Rousseau, J.J., English Romanticists' relation to, [68], [68], [75]
Ruskin, [100]
Russell, Odo, [330]

Sainte-Beuve, [6]
Sappho, [84]
Sassoon, S., poems of, [282-4]
Satires of Circumstance, by T. Hardy, [242-3]
Satow, Sir E., [223]
Scott, Sir W., [108], [128], [135]
Scudéry, M. de, [39]
Seaman, Sir G., war invective of, [264]
Selbourne, Lord, [320]
Selden, [98]
Senancour, [74]
Sentimental Journey, The, by L. Sterne, [96], [100]
Seventeenth century, English women writers of, [39]
Shakespeare, the Songs of, [31-5];
their dramatic value, [31-3];
lyrical qualities, [33-5];
comparison with contemporary lyricists, [35]; [17], [82]
Shelley, [74], [104], [108], [162]
Shenstone, [70]
Shepherd of the Ocean, The, [15-27]
Shorter, C., [141]
Some Soldier Poets, [261-85];
outbreak of war poetry, [262-3];
mildness of British Hymns of Hate, [264-5];
military influence upon poetic feeling, [265-6];
tendency to dispense with form, [266];
common literary influences, [267-8];
Rupert Brooke, [268-70];
J. Grenfell, [271-3];
M. Baring, [273-5];
N.M.F. Corbett, [275];
E.W. Tennant, [275];
R. Nichols, [276-80];
R. Graves, [280-1];
S. Sassoon, [282-4];
C.H. Sorley, W.N. Hodgson, K. Lawson, L. Rentoul, R.E. Vernède, [284]
Sorley, C.H., poems of, [284]
Southey, [5], [104]
Spain, Anglo-Spanish rivalry in days of Walter Raleigh, [16-17], [21-3], [24]
Spenser, [17], [82], [84], [111]
Stephen, Sir Leslie, [106], [237]
Sterne, Laurence, Essay on the Charm of, [93-100];
birth and childhood, [93-4];
temperament, [94-5];
intellectual development, [95-6];
alternation of feeling about, [97];
English literature's debt to, [98];
his "indelicacy," [99];
irrelevancy, [99];
Shandean influences upon literature, [100]
Sterne, Mrs., [93]
Sterne, Roger, [93]
Stevenson, R.L., [100]
Strachey, Lytton, "Eminent Victorians" by, review of, [318-32]
Stukeley, Sir L., [21]
Sully-Prudhomme, fluctuations in taste as regards, [5-9]
Sumners, Montagu, [39]
Swinburne, A. C, Bulwer-Lytton and, [133-4];
Hardy's sympathy with, [235]; [68], [81], [111]
Symbolism and poetry, [308-9]

Tales of Old Japan, by Lord Redesdale, [216]
Tancred, by B. Disraeli, [153]
Taste, fluctuations in, [3-12];
regarding Wordsworth, [3-4];
Mr. Balfour's conclusions, [4-5], [10];
volte-face concerning Sully-Prudhomme, [5-10]
Tea-Table Miscellany, [70]
Temple, Mrs., [45]
Tennant, E.W., poetry of, [275]
Tennyson, Victorian opinion of, [320-1]; [7], [12], [81], [106], [116], [132], [299]
Thackeray, [144]
The Bamboo Garden, by Lord Redesdale, [216]
The Bells, by E.A. Poe, [111]
The Dynasts, by T. Hardy, [240], [257]
The Enthusiast, by Joseph Warton, importance of, [69], [73]
The Female Wits, by Catharine Trotter, [45-6]
The Raven, by E.A. Poe, [108], [111]
The Revolution in Sweden, by Catharine Trotter, [57-8]
The Unhappy Penitent, by Catharine Trotter, [50-1]
The Young Duke, by B. Disraeli, [153], [157]
Thomson, James, [78], [307]
Thomson's Castle of Indolence, [68]
Times' Laughing Stocks, by T. Hardy, [240-2]
Tottel's Miscellany, [261]
Tristram Shandy, by L. Sterne, [94], [96], [98], [99], [100]
Trotter, Capt. D., R.N., [40]
Trotter, Catharine, [39-62];
precocity, [39], [42];
parentage, [40];
poverty, [41-2];
early verses, [43];
correspondence with celebrated people, [43];
Agnes de Castro, [43-5];
The Female Wits, [45-6];
Fatal Friendship, [47-9];
elegy on Dryden's death, [49-50];
The Unhappy Penitent, [50-1];
Love at a Loss, [51];
friendship with the Burnets, [52];
philosophical studies, [42], [52-3];
enthusiasm for Locke, [53], [55];
The Revolution in Sweden, [54], [57];
correspondence with Leibnitz, [55];
indignation at aspersions on feminine intellectuality, [56-7];
poem of welcome to Marlborough, [58];
attachment to G. Burnet, [59-60];
marriage with Mr. Cockburn, [60];
later life, [60-1]
Trotter, Mrs., poverty of, [41]
Tupper, [5]
Turkey Company, [40]