JOHNSON Leslie Stephen. GIBBON J. C. Morison. SCOTT R. H. Hutton. SHELLEY J. A. Symonds. HUME T. H. Huxley. GOLDSMITH William Black. DEFOE William Minto. BURNS J. C. Shairp. SPENSER R. W. Church. THACKERAY Anthony Trollope. BURKE John Morley. MILTON Mark Pattison. HAWTHORNE Henry James, Jr. SOUTHEY E. Dowden. CHAUCER A. W. Ward. BUNYAN J. A. Froude. COWPER Goldwin Smith. POPE Leslie Stephen. BYRON John Nichol. LOCKE Thomas Fowler. WORDSWORTH F. Myers. DRYDEN G. Saintsbury. LANDOR Sidney Colvin. DE QUINCEY David Masson. LAMB Alfred Ainger. BENTLEY R. C. Jebb. DICKENS A. W. Ward. GRAY E. W. Gosse. SWIFT Leslie Stephen. STERNE H. D. Traill. MACAULAY J. Cotter Morison. FIELDING Austin Dobson. SHERIDAN Mrs. Oliphant. ADDISON W. J. Courthope. BACON R. W. Church. COLERIDGE H. D. Traill. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY J. A. Symonds. 12mo, Cloth, 75 cents per volume. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. ☞ _Any of the above works will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on receipt of the price._ NOTE. I am indebted throughout to _The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey_, edited by the Rev. C. C. Southey, six volumes, 1850, and to _Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey_, edited by J. W. Warter, B.D., four volumes, 1856. Many other sources have been consulted. I thank Mr. W. J. Craig for help given in examining Southey manuscripts, and Mr. T. W. Lyster for many valuable suggestions. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD 1 CHAPTER II. WESTMINSTER, OXFORD, PANTISOCRACY, AND MARRIAGE 19 CHAPTER III. WANDERINGS, 1795-1803 44 CHAPTER IV. WAYS OF LIFE AT KESWICK, 1803-1839 80 CHAPTER V. WAYS OF LIFE AT KESWICK, 1803-1839 (_continued_) 112 CHAPTER VI. CHANGES AND EVENTS, 1803-1843 142 CHAPTER VII. SOUTHEY’S WORK IN LITERATURE 187 SOUTHEY. CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD.