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Klappentext Robinson's diaries and letters provide an important source of information about all the leading cultural figures of the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) was a lawyer and journalist who was acquainted with all the significant literary and cultural figures of his day. His lifelong habit of keeping diaries, letters and memoirs, from which this 1869 compilation derives, provides a major source of biographical information about his friends. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 1816. Flaxman - Lamb - the Clarksons at Playford - Wordsworth - Southey - De Quincey - Coleridge; 2. 1817. On circuit - treason trials - Coleridge and Tieck - journey to Paris - Home's trials; 3. 1818. Lectures by Hazlitt and Coleridge - visit to Germay - the court at Weimar - Knebel - on circuit; 4. 1819. Clarkson - J. P. Collier and Mr. Walter - on circuit - Benecke - new chambers; 5. 1820. On Elton Hammond; 6. Flaxman - Lamb - Swiss tour with the Wordsworths; 7. 1821. Mrs. Barbauld - Flaxman - tour to Scotland; 8. 1822. Wordsworth's memorial poems - visit to Paris - Charles and Mary Lamb in Paris; 9. 1823. Southey - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Moore, Lamb, and Rogers - Abernethy - acquaintance with Irving - Schlegel - Flaxman; 10. 1824. Sir John Franklin - Coleridge and Irving - Athenaeum club opened - Lady Morgan - tour in Normandy - visit to the Trappists; 11. 1825. Julius Hare - Sir James Stephen - Blake's Conversations; 12. 1926. Blake - Lamb - Irving - Coleridge - tour in Ireland - journey with O'Connell - visit to Derrynane - Wordsworth - visit to Dawson Turner - Macaulay - Death of Flaxman; 13. 1827. Death of Blake - Lamb at Enfield; 14. 1828. Goethe - opening of the London University - repeal of Test and Corporation Acts - Bishop Stanley - H.C.R. quits the Bar; 15. 1829. Antiquarian Society - Linnaean Society - Lamb's hoax and confession - with lamb at Enfield - Mrs. Clarkson - Wordsworth; 16. 1829. Croker - tour in Germany - visits to Benecke, Knebel, Goethe, Tieck, &c.; 17. 1829-31. In Italy - winter in Rome - tour in Sicily - stay in Florence; 18. 1831. In England again - the Reform Bill - visits to Lamb and the Clarksons - Jeremy Bentham....
