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  Brain, Robert, 96, 124125 Burney, Frances, 3, 5, 7 Evelina, 28 Burns, Robert, 5 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 28, 19, 46, 56, 86, 128134, 141, 149150, 153155 See also Romantic poets friendship in, 97, 103105, 115 loss in, 34 works: “l’Amitie est l’Amour sans ailes,” 104 Childe Harold I-II, 2, 149150, 154 “Childish Recollections,” 103104 “To D—,” 103 Don Juan, 154 “To E—,” 103 Hours of Idleness, 103104 “Napoleon’s Farewell,” 7, 147 Turkish Tales, 2, 34, 128129, 132, 147, 149, 153 The Bride of Abydos, 128129, 132, 149150, 153 The Corsair, 67, 128129, 149150 The Giaour, 128129, 132, 141, 149150, 153 Lara, 129 Chapman, R. W., 1315 Cicero, 101102 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 23, 5, 8, 1921, 26, 38, 54, 56, 86. See also Romantic poets works: Biographia Literaria, 4 “The Dungeon,” 21 Sibylline Leaves, 4 Cowper, William, 3, 57, 910, 20, 162n8 Crabbe, George, 5, 8, 14, 162n8 Tales, 14 Crain, Caleb, 106 Don Quixote, 114 Eliot, George, 25 Middlemarch, 154 Faderman, Lillian, 100, 102103 Ferguson, Francis, 79 Freud, Sigmund, 73, 80 Friendship, history of, 96103 German Romanticism, 16667n21 Gilpin, William, 5, 710, 6061

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 73 Goldsmith, Oliver, 100 Hartman, Geoffrey, 72, 74, 79 Hazlitt, William, 4 History of Private Life, A, 101, 109 Hobbes, Thomas, 106 Homer, 154155 Howards End, 156 Johnson, Samuel, 3, 5, 37, 42, 48, 61 Keats, John, 2, 4, 12, 46 MacKinnon, Sir Frank, 1315 Montaigne, Michel de, 101102 Mudrick, Marvin, 7 Murray, John, 146 Napoleon Bonaparte, 18, 146147, 150151, 153, 157 Peacock, Thomas Love, 4 Plato, 102 Pope, Alexander, 7 Radcliffe, Ann, 7 Richardson, Samuel, 3, 5 Rochefoucauld, Duc de La, 100 Romantic poets, 25, 19, 4647, 50, 56, 86, 90, 97, 101, 103, 160n5 Austen’s opinions of, 510, 167168n38 reputation of, 160161n6, 168n42 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 100101 Emile, 101 The Confessions, 100 La Nouvelle Héloise, 101 Sabin, Margery, 100101 Schiller, Friedrich von, 112, 168n39 Scott, Sir Walter, 28, 1921, 56, 128, 137, 146151, 153155. See also Romantic poets loss in, 34 social change in, 3031 works: verse romances, 128 The Lady of the Lake, 128, 147 The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 31, 34, 147 The Lord of the Isles, 148, 151, 154 Marmion, 6, 34, 128, 147148, 150151, 154 The Vision of Don Roderick, 154

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  The Antiquary, 6 Guy Mannering, 24 The Field of Waterloo, 6, 146 Paul’s Letter to His Kinfolk, 6, 146 Waverley, 6, 151, 154, Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 106 Shakespeare, William, 13 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 2, 4, 46 Shelley, Mary, 4 Simpson, David, 7374 Southey, Robert, 146 Stone, Lawrence, 9798, 100 Thomson, James, 5, 6, 20 Trilling, Lionel, 31, 51, 85, 110, 112, 156 Whitman, Walt, 106 Williams, Helen Maria, 146 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 99 Woolf, Virginia, 13 Wordsworth, William, 25, 810, 1921, 25, 28, 3738, 45, 47, 54, 5658, 61, 8081, 86, 90. See also Romantic poets ambiguous relationships in, 46, 90, 109110 friendship in, 97, 105106, 101, 112113, 121 loss in, 34 social change in, 3031 solitude in, 36 substitution in, 60, 7174 works: “Alice Fell,” 35 “Anecdote for Fathers,” 27 “The Brothers,” 21, 24, 3839, 79 “The Convict,” 21

  “The Emigrant Mother,” 7879 The Excursion, 9 “Expostulation and Reply,” 9091, 106 “The Female Vagrant,” 30, 35 “Goody Blake and Harry Gill,” 35 “Her Eyes are Wild,” 35, 7879 “The Last of the Flock,” 106107, 110, 111 Lyrical Ballads, 2, 8, 35, 72, 9091, 105 friendship in, 106107 “The Mad Mother,” 7879, 90 “Michael,” 35 “The Old Cumberland Beggar,” 35 Matthew poems, 46, 9091, 95, 105, 106107, 114 “Address to the Scholars of the Village School of —,” 91 “The Fountain,” 91, 105 “Lines written on a tablet … ” (“Matthew”), 91 “The Two April Mornings,” 38, 91, 133 Peter Bell, 4 Poems, 9 Poems in Two Volumes, 35 The Prelude, 2, 4, 60, 100 “Resolution and Independence,” 35 “Simon Lee,” 35 “The Tables Turned,” 90, 107 “The Thorn,” 35 “Tintern Abbey,” 810, 21, 3839, 5657, 6162, 8183, 90 friendship in, 105106, 124 memory in, 58, 60 substitution in, 71

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