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the Drury Lane Committee. Theatricals. Obstacles to writing for the stage. Kemble; Mrs. Siddons; Munden; Shakspeare; Alfieri; Maturin; Miss Baillie. Modern sensitiveness. ‘Marino Faliero.’ Ugo Foscolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
83—97 | |
Ada. Singular coincidence. Ideas on education. Ada’s birth-day. Lord Byron’s melancholy and superstition. Birth-day fatalities. Death of Polidori. ‘The Vampyre’—foundation of the story Lord Byron’s; ‘Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.’ Query to Sir Humphrey Davy. Scott, Rousseau, and Goëthe. Fulfilment of Mrs. Williams’s prophecy. Unlucky numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
97—104 | |
Lord Byron’s epigrams. His hospitality. Advances towards a reconciliation with Lady Byron. Death of Lady Noel. Lord Byron’s remarks on lyric poetry; Coleridge, Moore, and Campbell. Ode on Sir John Moore’s funeral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
104–114 | |
Swimming across the Hellespont. Adventures at Brighton and Venice. ‘Marino Faliero’ and ‘The Two Foscari.’ Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd’s prediction. Failure of ‘Marino Faliero:’ Lord Byron’s epigram on the occasion. Louis Dix-huit’s translation: Jeffrey’s critique. Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews. Subjects for tragedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
114–124 | |
Barry Cornwall. ‘Cain.’ Gessner’s ‘Death of Abel.’ Hobhouse’s opinion of ‘Cain.’ Lord B.’s defence of that poem. Goëthe’s ‘Faust.’ Letter to Murray respecting ‘Cain.’ Bacchanalian song. Private theatricals. The Definite Article. A play proposed. The Guiccioli’s Veto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
124–135 | |
Merits of actors. Dowton and Kean. Kean’s Richard the Third and Sir Giles Overreach. Garrick’s dressing of Othello. Kemble’s costume; his Coriolanus and Cato: his colloquial blank verse. Improvisatori: Theodore Hook: Sgricci; his ‘Iphigenia.’ Mrs. Siddons and Miss O‘Neill. The elephant’s legs. Stage courtship. Lamb’s Specimens. Plagiarisms. ‘Faust’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
135–142 | |
Lord Byron’s ‘Hours of Idleness.’ The ineffectual potation. Severity of reviewers. ‘English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.’ Jeffrey and Moore. Moore’s challenge to Lord Byron; miscarriage of the letter; subsequent friendship. Character of Southey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
142–147 | |
