Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

by George Saintsbury

• Canning, George, [75], [97], [200], [385]
• Carlyle, Thomas, [47], [270]-[272], [323], [369], [370]
• Coleridge, S. T., [141]
• Colvin, Mr. Sidney, [445]
• Courthope, Mr. W. J., [4]
• Crabbe, George, [1]-[32];
• • the decline of his popularity, [1]-[5];
  • sketch of his life, [6]-[12];
  • his works and their characteristics, [13]-[20];
  • their prosaic element, [20]-[25];
  • was he a poet?, [25]-[32]
• Cunningham, Allan, [46], [53]

• Dante, [26], [218], [230], [231]
• Douglas, Scott, [41], [353]
• Dryden, John, [22], [30], [85], [232]

• Fitzgerald, Edward (translator of Omar Khayyám), [4]
• Flaubert, Gustave, [19]
• Fraser's Magazine, [359], [360]

• Gifford, William, [3], [21], [152]

• Hannay, Mr. David, [350]
• Hazlitt, William, [135]-[169];
• • differing estimates of him, [135]-[140];
  • his life, [140]-[146];
  • his works, [146]-[169]
  • ——[xxi], [xxii], [4], [24], [25], [130], [131], [217]
• Hogg, James, [33]-[66];
• • his special interest, [33], [34];
  • his life, [34]-[37];
  • anecdotes and estimates of him, [37]-[47];
  • his poems, [47]-[54];
  • his general prose, [54], [55];
  • The Confessions of a Sinner, [55]-[64]
• Hood and Praed, [397]-[399]
• Hook, Theodore, [357]-[359]
• Howells, Mr. W. D., [xvii]
• Hunt, Leigh, [201]-[233];
• • scattered condition of his work, [201]-[203];
  • his life, [204]-[213];
  • the "Skimpole" matter, [213]-[216];
  • his vulgarity, [217]-[219];
  • his poems, [219]-[223];
  • his critical and miscellaneous work, [223]-[233]

• Jeffrey, Francis, [100]-[134];
• • a critic pure and simple, [100], [101];
  • his life, [101]-[114];
  • the foundation of the Edinburgh Review, [106]-[109];
  • his criticism, [115], [134]
  • ——[3], [4], [21], [24], [29]
• Johnson, Samuel, [2], [11], [14], [16]
• Joubert, Joseph, [26]

• Lang, Mr. Andrew, [xxii]
• Lockhart, John Gibson, [339]-[373], and [Appendix B];
• • his literary fate, [339]-[341];
  • his life, [341]-[346], [359]-[361];
  • The Chaldee MS. and Peter's Letters, [343]-[345];
  • the novels, [346]-[349];
  • the poems, [349]-[351];
  • Life of Burns, [353];
  • Life of Scott, [354]-[356];
  • Life of Hook, [357]-[359];
  • his editorship of the Quarterly and his criticism generally, [361]-[373];
  • charges against him, [445]-[448]
  • ——[3], [6], [13], [33], [37], [39]-[44], [60], [63], [64], [108], [112], [113], [293], [294]

• Macaulay, Lord, [294], [384]
• Maguire, W., [279], [360]
• [Transcriber's Note: The alternative form of Maguire, Maginn, is used in the main body of the text.]
• Masson, Professor, [305] sqq.
• Moore, Thomas, [170]-[200];
• • a French critic on him, [170]-[172];
  • his miscellaneous work, [172]-[174];
  • his life, [174]-[183];
  • his character, [183]-[185];
  • survey of his poetry, [185]-[200]
  • ——[6], [27], [110].
• Morley, Mr. John, [27]

• Newman, Cardinal, [4]
• North, Christopher. See Wilson, John