Bibliographical Notes
(Some of the most noteworthy books and articles dealing with the authors discussed in this volume are indicated below.)
William Hazlitt (1778–1830).
Memoirs, by William Carew Hazlitt. Four Generations of a Literary Family, by W. C. Hazlitt (1897). William Hazlitt, by Augustine Birrell. William Hazlitt, by Alexander Ireland (Frederick Warne & Co., 1889).
Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859).
De Quincey, by David Masson (Macmillan & Co.). De Quincey and his Friends, by James Hogg (1895). De Quincey, by H. S. Salt (“Bell’s Miniature Series of Great Writers”).
George Borrow (1803–81).
Life and Letters (2 vols.), by Dr. Knapp. Introductions to Lavengro (Frederick Warne & Co.), The Romany Rye (Frederick Warne & Co.), Wild Wales (J. M. Dent & Co.), by Theodore Watts-Dunton. Article in Chambers’s Cyclopedia of English Literature. “Reminiscences of George Borrow” (Athenæum, Sept. 3, 10, 1881).
Henry D. Thoreau (1817–62).
Thoreau, his Life and Aims, by H. A. Page (Chatto & Windus). Thoreau, by H. S. Salt (“Great Writers Series”). Essays by R. L. Stevenson (Familiar Studies of Men and Books), and J. R. Lowell (My Study Window).
The best edition of Thoreau’s writings is published by the Riverside Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. Some useful volumes of selections are issued by Walter Scott, Limited, with good introductions by Will. H. Dricks. Walden, with introduction by Theodore Watts-Dunton (Henry Froude).
R. L. Stevenson (1850–94).
Letters of R. L. Stevenson to his Family and Friends (2 vols.), by Sidney Colvin, with introduction. R. L. Stevenson, by L. Cope Cornford (Blackwood & Son).
Richard Jefferies (1848–87).
Eulogy of Richard Jefferies, by Walter Besant (1888). Nature in Books, by P. Anderson Graham (Methuen, 1891). Richard Jefferies, by H. S. Salt (Swan Sonnenschein, 1894). Dictionary of National Biography. Chambers’s Cyclopedia of English Literature.
Walt Whitman (1819–92).
Walt Whitman, by William Clarke (Swan Sonnenschein). Essay by R. L. Stevenson (Familiar Studies of Men and Books). Walt Whitman: a Study, by J. Addington Symonds. Walt Whitman, by R. M. Bucke (Philadelphia). Walt Whitman, by John Burroughs (Constable). The New Spirit (Essay on Whitman), by Havelock Ellis (Walter Scott). The best edition of Leaves of Grass, published by David McKay, Philadelphia.
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Footnotes
0 The Coming of Love and Other Poems, by Theodore Watts-Dunton (John Lane).
21 For an excellent summary of this doctrine, vide Introduction to Herbert Spencer, by W. H. Hudson.
40 Thomas De Quincey, by H. S. Salt (Bell’s Miniature Biographies).
48 De Quincey’s Life and Writings, p. 456, by A. H. Japp, LL.D.
70 The gypsy word for Antonio.
71 Devil.
102 It is a peculiarly American trait. The same thing dominates Whitman. Saxon egotism and Yankee egotism are quite distinctive products.
106 Thoreau, by H. A. Page.
[124a] Later Essays.
124b Introduction, The Letters of Robert Lents Stevenson.
147 The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Walter Besant.
149 Perhaps even more remarkable is the abnormal state of consciousness described in the “Ancient Sage.”
151a Six Systems of Indian Philosophy, by F. Max Müller.
151b Quoted by Professor William James, Varieties of Religions Experiences, p. 402.
153a Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 427.
153b Vide Richard Jefferies, by H. S. Salt.
157a The Life of the Fields, p. 72.
157b Curious similarity of thought here with Elia’s “popular fallacy,” though probably quite uninspired by Lamb. Jefferies was no great reader. It is said that he knew little or nothing of Thoreau.
173 Vide Introduction to Borrow’s The Romany Rye, by Theodore Watts-Dunton.
180 Familiar Studies of Men and Books, by R. L. Stevenson.
186 Walt Whitman, a study, by J. A. Symonds.
188 Walt Whitman, by William Clarke, p. 79.
197 Vide Life of William Morris by J. W. Mackail.
199 Robert Browning: Essays and Thought, by John T. Nettleship.
204 The New Spirit, by Havelock Ellis.