Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence 3 Volume Paperback Set
Published on 6. January 2011
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1684 pages
978-1-108-02491-4 (ISBN)
Description
Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867) was a lawyer, journalist and indefatigable diarist, who was acquainted with almost all the important figures in English and European cultural circles. His surviving writings amount to almost one hundred volumes, from which this selection was compiled in 1869. He studied at Jena where he became acquainted with Goethe and Schiller, and became foreign editor for The Times, despatching eyewitness reports on the Battle of Corunna. He travelled to Switzerland and Italy with Wordsworth, and his reminiscences of William Blake are an important source of information on that visionary. He attended Coleridge's public lectures, recording not only the content but anecdotes about the audiences. Other activities included helping found the Athenaeum Club and University College, London. The combination of anecdote and critical appraisal of the notables about whom he writes makes the diaries a valuable source for the culture of the nineteenth century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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1 Plates, black and white
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Height: 330 mm
Width: 252 mm
Thickness: 162 mm
Weight
2590 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-02491-4 (9781108024914)
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Volume 1: Preface; 1. 1789. Family and childhood; 2. 1790-5. Articled clerk at Colchester; 3. 1795. Interval at Bury; 4. 1796-9. Unsettled life in London - correspondence with Robert Hall; 5-9. 1800-5. In Germany; 10. 1805-6. In London - acquaintance with Mrs. Barbauld, and C. and M. Lamb; 11. 1807. In Holstein, as Times correspondent; 12. 1807-9. In London, as foreign editor of the Times - acquaintance with Wordsworth - at Corunna, as Times correspondent; 13. 1810. In London - acquaintance with Coleridge and Flaxman; 14. 1811. In London - debating societies - Coleridge's lectures - Southey - resolution to study for the Bar; 15. 1812. In London - studies for the Bar - lectures by Coleridge and Hazlitt; 16. 1813. Acquaintance with Talfourd - Madame de Stael in London - circuit - takes chambers; 17. 1814. European politics - practice at the Bar - tour in France - La Fayette - French courts of justice - Madame de Stael - Benjamin Constant - Schlegel - 'The Excursion'; 18. 'The Excursion' - Buonaparte's escape from Elba - death of H. C. R.'s father - tour in Belgium and Holland - visit to Waterloo - progress at the Bar. Volume 2: 1. 1816. Flaxman - Lamb - the Clarksons at Playford - Wordsworth - Southey - De Quincey - Coleridge; 2. 1817. On circuit - treason trials - Coleridge and Tieck - journey to Paris - Home's trials; 3. 1818. Lectures by Hazlitt and Coleridge - visit to Germay - the court at Weimar - Knebel - on circuit; 4. 1819. Clarkson - J. P. Collier and Mr. Walter - on circuit - Benecke - new chambers; 5. 1820. On Elton Hammond; 6. Flaxman - Lamb - Swiss tour with the Wordsworths; 7. 1821. Mrs. Barbauld - Flaxman - tour to Scotland; 8. 1822. Wordsworth's memorial poems - visit to Paris - Charles and Mary Lamb in Paris; 9. 1823. Southey - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Moore, Lamb, and Rogers - Abernethy - acquaintance with Irving - Schlegel - Flaxman; 10. 1824. Sir John Franklin - Coleridge and Irving - Athenaeum club opened - Lady Morgan - tour in Normandy - visit to the Trappists; 11. 1825. Julius Hare - Sir James Stephen - Blake's Conversations; 12. 1926. Blake - Lamb - Irving - Coleridge - tour in Ireland - journey with O'Connell - visit to Derrynane - Wordsworth - visit to Dawson Turner - Macaulay - Death of Flaxman; 13. 1827. Death of Blake - Lamb at Enfield; 14. 1828. Goethe - opening of the London University - repeal of Test and Corporation Acts - Bishop Stanley - H.C.R. quits the Bar; 15. 1829. Antiquarian Society - Linnaean Society - Lamb's hoax and confession - with lamb at Enfield - Mrs. Clarkson - Wordsworth; 16. 1829. Croker - tour in Germany - visits to Benecke, Knebel, Goethe, Tieck, &c.; 17. 1829-31. In Italy - winter in Rome - tour in Sicily - stay in Florence; 18. 1831. In England again - the Reform Bill - visits to Lamb and the Clarksons - Jeremy Bentham. Volume 3: 1. 1832. Reform Bill - Goethe's death - Lady Blessington - fatal accident to W. Pattison and his bride; 2. 1833-35. Hudson Gurney - first railway journey - at the Lakes - Scotch tour with Wordsworth - visit to Heidelberg - theological talks with Benecke - death of Lamb - first Christmas at Rydal; 3. 1836. Dr. Arnold - Sydney Smith - W. S. Landor and Wordsworth; 4. 1837-8. Italian tour with Wordsworth - journey to the west of England with Wordsworth - copyright in America - Clarkson and Wilberforce controversy - journey to Paris with Southey; 5. 1839-40. At Rydal - H. C. R. removes to 30 Russell Square - visit to Playford - The Non-con Club - tour to Frankfort; 6. 1841. Death of H. C. R.'s nephew, and of many old friends; 7. 1842. Christmas at Rydal (1841) - death of Dr. Arnold - Christmas at Rydal (1842) - talks with Faber; 8. 1843-4. On church questions - correspondence with Quillinan - Christmas at Rydal - visit to Playford - Archaeological Association; 9. 1844. Dissenters' Chapels Act; 10. 1845. At Rydal - Rogers - Wordsworth - Robinsoni