In this second collection of biographical accounts of Romantic writers, the characters of Keats, Coleridge and Scott are recalled by their contemporaries, offering insights into their lives and writings, as well as into the art of 19th-century biography

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Chronology -- Copy Texts -- 1. Cornwall, Barry, Town Conversation’ -- 2. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Adonais -- 3. Reynolds, John Hamilton, The Garden of Florence -- 4. Hunt, Leigh, Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries -- 5. William Maginn, ‘Novels of the Season’ -- 6. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Specimens of the Table Talk -- 7a. Dendy, Walter Cooper, The Philosophy of Mystery -- 7b. Dendy, Walter Cooper, Legends of the Lintel and the Ley -- 8. Medwin, Thomas, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley -- 9. Milnes, Richard Monckton, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats -- 10. Hunt, Leigh, Autobiography -- 11. Haydon, Benjamin Robert, The Life of Benjamin Robert Hay don -- 12. Clarke, Charles Cowden, ‘Recollections of Keats’ -- 13. Severn, Joseph, ‘On the Vicissitudes of Keats’s Fame’ -- 14. Clarke, Charles Cowden and Mary, ‘Recollections of Writers’ -- 15. Richardson, Sir Benjamin, ‘An Esculapian Poet - John Keats’ -- 16. Severn, Joseph, ‘Journals and Reminiscences’ -- 17. Brown, Charles, The Life of John Keats -- Notes.