Some Diversions of a Man of Letters

Name: Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
Author: Gosse, Edmund

Gosse, Edmund

American literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism; World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry

Symbolism and poetry, 308-9

_Tales of Old Japan_, by Lord Redesdale, 216
_Tancred_, by B. Disraeli, 153
Taste, fluctuations in, 3-12;
  regarding Wordsworth, 3-4;
  Mr. Balfour's conclusions, 4-5, 10;
  volte-face concerning Sully-Prudhomme, 5-10
_Tea-Table Miscellany_, 70
Temple, Mrs., 45
Tennant, E.W., poetry of, 275
Tennyson, Victorian opinion of, 320-1; 7, 12, 81, 106, 116, 132, 299
Thackeray, 144
_The Bamboo Garden_, by Lord Redesdale, 216
_The Bells_, by E.A. Poe, 111
_The Dynasts_, by T. Hardy, 240, 257
_The Enthusiast_, by Joseph Warton, importance of, 69, 73
_The Female Wits_, by Catharine Trotter, 45-6
_The Raven_, by E.A. Poe, 108, 111
_The Revolution in Sweden_, by Catharine Trotter, 57-8
_The Unhappy Penitent_, by Catharine Trotter, 50-1
_The Young Duke_, by B. Disraeli, 153, 157
Thomson, James, 78, 307
Thomson's _Castle of Indolence_, 68
_Times' Laughing Stocks_, by T. Hardy, 240-2
Tottel's Miscellany, 261
_Tristram Shandy_, by L. Sterne, 94, 96, 98, 99, 100
Trotter, Capt. D., R.N., 40
Trotter, Catharine, 39-62;
  precocity, 39, 42;
  parentage, 40;
  poverty, 41-2;
  early verses, 43;
  correspondence with celebrated people, 43;
  _Agnes de Castro_, 43-5;
  _The Female Wits_, 45-6;
  _Fatal Friendship_, 47-9;
  elegy on Dryden's death, 49-50;
  _The Unhappy Penitent_, 50-1;
  _Love at a Loss_, 51;
  friendship with the Burnets, 52;
  philosophical studies, 42, 52-3;
  enthusiasm for Locke, 53, 55;
  _The Revolution in Sweden_, 54, 57;
  correspondence with Leibnitz, 55;
  indignation at aspersions on feminine intellectuality, 56-7;
  poem of welcome to Marlborough, 58;
  attachment to G. Burnet, 59-60;
  marriage with Mr. Cockburn, 60;
  later life, 60-1
Trotter, Mrs., poverty of, 41
Tupper, 5
Turkey Company, 40

_Ulalume_, by E.A. Poe, 103, 107, 109, 112
Upchear, Henry, 31

_Veluvana_, by Lord Redesdale, theme of, 222-4, 226
_Venetia_, by B. Disraeli, 163
Venice, its fascination for Disraeli, 163
Verbruggen, Mrs., 45
Verlaine, Paul, 7
Vernède, R.E., poems of, 284
de Verville, B., 95, 95, 96
Victorian Age, the Agony of, 313-37
Virgil, 12
_Vivian Grey_, by B. Disraeli, 155, 156, 157-9
Voltaire, 3, 162

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Some Diversions of a Man of Letters

Gosse, Edmund

American literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism; World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry

Symbolism and poetry, 308-9

_Tales of Old Japan_, by Lord Redesdale, 216
_Tancred_, by B. Disraeli, 153
Taste, fluctuations in, 3-12;
  regarding Wordsworth, 3-4;
  Mr. Balfour's conclusions, 4-5, 10;
  volte-face concerning Sully-Prudhomme, 5-10
_Tea-Table Miscellany_, 70
Temple, Mrs., 45
Tennant, E.W., poetry of, 275
Tennyson, Victorian opinion of, 320-1; 7, 12, 81, 106, 116, 132, 299
Thackeray, 144
_The Bamboo Garden_, by Lord Redesdale, 216
_The Bells_, by E.A. Poe, 111
_The Dynasts_, by T. Hardy, 240, 257
_The Enthusiast_, by Joseph Warton, importance of, 69, 73
_The Female Wits_, by Catharine Trotter, 45-6
_The Raven_, by E.A. Poe, 108, 111
_The Revolution in Sweden_, by Catharine Trotter, 57-8
_The Unhappy Penitent_, by Catharine Trotter, 50-1
_The Young Duke_, by B. Disraeli, 153, 157
Thomson, James, 78, 307
Thomson's _Castle of Indolence_, 68
_Times' Laughing Stocks_, by T. Hardy, 240-2
Tottel's Miscellany, 261
_Tristram Shandy_, by L. Sterne, 94, 96, 98, 99, 100
Trotter, Capt. D., R.N., 40
Trotter, Catharine, 39-62;
  precocity, 39, 42;
  parentage, 40;
  poverty, 41-2;
  early verses, 43;
  correspondence with celebrated people, 43;
  _Agnes de Castro_, 43-5;
  _The Female Wits_, 45-6;
  _Fatal Friendship_, 47-9;
  elegy on Dryden's death, 49-50;
  _The Unhappy Penitent_, 50-1;
  _Love at a Loss_, 51;
  friendship with the Burnets, 52;
  philosophical studies, 42, 52-3;
  enthusiasm for Locke, 53, 55;
  _The Revolution in Sweden_, 54, 57;
  correspondence with Leibnitz, 55;
  indignation at aspersions on feminine intellectuality, 56-7;
  poem of welcome to Marlborough, 58;
  attachment to G. Burnet, 59-60;
  marriage with Mr. Cockburn, 60;
  later life, 60-1
Trotter, Mrs., poverty of, 41
Tupper, 5
Turkey Company, 40

_Ulalume_, by E.A. Poe, 103, 107, 109, 112
Upchear, Henry, 31

_Veluvana_, by Lord Redesdale, theme of, 222-4, 226
_Venetia_, by B. Disraeli, 163
Venice, its fascination for Disraeli, 163
Verbruggen, Mrs., 45
Verlaine, Paul, 7
Vernède, R.E., poems of, 284
de Verville, B., 95, 95, 96
Victorian Age, the Agony of, 313-37
Virgil, 12
_Vivian Grey_, by B. Disraeli, 155, 156, 157-9
Voltaire, 3, 162

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Some Diversions of a Man of Letters

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