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CONTENTS
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| CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW | [1] |
| NOTES | [403] |
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW
CONTENTS
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| Dunlop’s History of Fiction | [5] |
| Standard Novels and Romances | [25] |
| Sismondi’s Literature of the South | [44] |
| Schlegel on the Drama | [78] |
| Coleridge’s Lay Sermon | [120] |
| Coleridge’s Literary Life | [135] |
| Letters of Horace Walpole | [159] |
| Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds | [172] |
| The Periodical Press | [202] |
| Landor’s Imaginary Conversations | [231] |
| Shelley’s Posthumous Poems | [256] |
| Lady Morgan’s Life of Salvator | [276] |
| American Literature—Dr. Channing | [310] |
| Flaxman’s Letters on Sculpture | [330] |
| Wilson’s Life and Times of Daniel Defoe | [355] |
| Mr. Godwin | [385] |
| Notes | [403] |
| Hunt’s Story of Rimini | [407] |
| Coleridge’s Christabel | [411] |
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW
DUNLOP’S HISTORY OF FICTION
Vol. xxiv.] [November 1814.
We are very much of Mr. Dunlop’s opinion,—that ‘life has few things better, than sitting at the chimney-corner in a winter evening, after a well-spent day, and reading an interesting romance or novel.’ In fact, of all the pleasures of the imagination those are by far the most captivating which are excited by the representation of our fellow-creatures struggling with great difficulties, and stimulated by high expectations or formidable alarms. And if the reader or spectator have no personal interest in the subject, his emotions are but slightly, if at all, affected by his judgment concerning its authenticity. On the contrary, the fictions of genius may be rendered far more engaging than the greater part of real history.