Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by EPES SARGENT, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts PREFACE. THIS edition of the Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell possesses some advantages, it is believed, over any one hitherto published. It contains a very full Memoir, compiled from the life and letters of the poet, edited by Dr. Beattie, long his most intimate friend, and his literary executor; and from the Reminiscences of Mr. Cyrus Redding, who was for some ten years associated with Campbell in editing the New Monthly Magazine. The poems collected in the Moxon editions are given from the text, and according to the arrangement approved by the author. To these we have added fifty poems, some of which are hardly surpassed by the best of his acknowledged lyrics, and all of which are worthy of a permanent place in his works. For many of these we have been indebted to Dr. Beattie. Some we have copied from the pages of the New Monthly Magazine. The translations from the Italian are from the Life of Petrarch, by the poet. Other poems have been authenticated by a list prepared by Mr. Redding whilst he was assisting Campbell in editing the first complete edition of his works, in 1828. A more particular reference to the source of each poem will be found in the notes. The engraved head prefixed to the volume is a faithful likeness of the poet in his early years; and the full-length pen-and-ink sketch, which represents him in the ease and undress of his study, is said to convey a correct impression of his appearance in advanced life. CONTENTS. CAMPBELL'S Birth. His Childhood and School Days. - Enters University of Glasgow. -Anecdotes of his Parents. His Favorite Authors. His First Attempt in Verse. - His Visit to Edinburgh. -Trial of Gerald and Muir for Treason. - Choice of a Profession. The Church, Medicine and the Law. -Tutorship in Argyle- shire. Downie. - Caroline.-IIamilton Paul. - Anecdote. - Amatory Consolations. — Return to Glasgow. - Edinburgh. - Introduction to Dr. Anderson. - Engagements with Mundell, the Bookseller. - The Professors of the University. Young.-Jardine. - John Miller. Society in Edinburgh. - The Poet's Friends. Intention of going to America abandoned. Pleasures of Hope. - His Training for the Work. Anecdote. - Sale of Copyright. Publication.- Passages recited at Dinner by Stephen Kemble.-Original Introduction to The Pleasures of Hope. -Poetical World at the time,. . . . . Campbell determines to Travel. His Literary Plans. - Perry. - Hamburg. — Visit to Klopstock.-Route to Ratisbon described. War Scenes.-The Monks of St. James. - Mode of Living at Ratisbon. - Economical Travelling in Germany. - Altona. The Queen of the North.-Extracts from his Correspondence. -The Lyrical Poems com- posed in Germany. - Scenes on the Danube. - English Squadron sails for the Baltic.— Campbell embarks for Leith. Arrives in London. - Perry and his Family. — King of Clubs. Lord Holland. Mackintosh. - Rogers. -Death of the Poet's Father. - Arrest for Treason. Anecdote.-Arrangements for his Mother and Sisters. - Abandons his Contemplated Poem. - Compendium of English Annals. Visit to Lord Minto. London Society. The Kembles and Telford. - Castle Minto. - Scott.-Lochiel. --Hohenlinden. -Anecdote of Mrs. Dugald Stewart.-The Poet and John Leyden. -His Prospects in - CHAPTER IV. - The Poet's Wife. — Lodgings at Pimlico. Application to Literature. — Birth of a Boy. - CHAPTER V. - 38-50. The Quarterly's Description of Society at Sydenham.-Tom Hill's Box the Original of - CHAPTER VI. Lectures again before the Royal Institution. - Visits Germany to revise and extend 63-74. CHAPTER VII. - Accounts with his Publisher. - The Metropolitan. - Anecdote of Rogers.-St. Leon- - - - |