Recollections of a literary life, or, Books, places, and people

Vol. 1. I. Various authors : Percy's reliques

II. Irish authors : Thomas Davis ; John Banim

III. Authors associated with places: Visit to Taplow ; Thomas Noel

IV. Old authors: Abraham Cowley

V. Comic poets: A wet morning ; J. Anstey

VI. American poets: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

VII. Authors sprung from the people: Thomas Holcroft

VIII. Authors associated with places: Sitting in the lane ; Beaumont and Fletcher

IX. Fashionable poets: Winthrop Mackworth Praed

X. Peasant poets: John Clare

XI. Authors associated with places: A country wedding ; First visit to London ; Samuel Johnson

XII. Old poets: Robert Herrick ; George Withers

XIII. Female poets: Joanna Baille ; Catherine Fanshawe

XIV. Married poets: Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; Robert Browning

XV. Prose pastorals: The lost cane ; Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia ; Isaac Waltons' complete angler

XVI. Spanish ballads

XVII. Female poets: An adventure at William Cobbett's ; Miss Blamire ; Mrs James Gray

XVIII. American orators: Daniel Webster

XIX. Old authors: Ben Jonson

XX. Fashionable poets: William Robert Spencer : A school-day anecdote

XXI. Autobiography of dramatic authors: Passion for the drama ; Colley Cibber ; Richard Cumberland

XXII. Female poets: Mrs Clive ; Mrs Acton Tindal ; Miss Day ; Mrs Robert Dering

vol. 2. I. Cavalier poets: Visit to Rotherfield Greys ; Richard Lovelace ; Roger L'Estrange ; The Marquis of Montrose

II. Poetry that poets love: Walter Savage Landor ; Leigh Hunt ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; John Keats

III. Authors associated with place: Visit to Bath Christopher Anstey

IV. American poets: John Greenleaf Whittier ; Fitz-Greene Halleck

V. Voluminous authors: Love of long books ; Hargrave's state trials

VI. Fishing songs: Recollections of Northumberland ; Mr Doubleday ; Miss Corbett

VII. Authors associated with places: Residence at Lyme ; Story of a lottery ticket ; John Kenyon

VIII. Authors associated with places: Visit to Bristol and Clfton ; Thomas Chatterton ; Robert Southey ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; William Wordsworth

IX. American poets: Oliver Wendell Holmes

X. Letters of authors: Samuel Richardson

XI. Fine single poems: Sir Walter Scott, &c

XII. Authors associated with places: Visit to Ufton Court ; W.C. Bennett

XIII. Irish authors: Gerald Griffin

XIV. Mock-heroic poetry: John Hookham Frere

XV. Authors associated with places: Visit to Donnington ; Battle of Newbury ; Lord Clarendon ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; John Hughes

XVI. Unrecognised poets: George Darley, the Rev. Edward William Barnard

XVII. American prose writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne

XVIII. Old poets: Andrew Marvel

XIX. Scottish poets: William Motherwell

XX. Great prose writers: Lord Bacon ; John Milton ; Jeremy Taylor ; John Ruskin