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Volume 1Juvenilia (1799-1800); Diary (1803); Constituents of Happiness and two related manuscripts (1806); Oxford Latin Exercise (c. 1803-8); Postscript on Sir John Moore's Letters (1809); Close Comments upon a Straggling Speech (1818); Contributions to the Westmorland Gazette (1818-20); Unpublished manuscripts relating to the Westmorland GazetteVolume 2'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater [Part I]', London Magazine (1821); 'Notice to the Reader', London Magazine (1821); 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Part II' London Magazine (1821); 'Letter from the English Opium-Eater', London Magazine (1821); 'Appendix' to the 'Confessions' (1822); Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1856); 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821 [Part I]: a manuscript transcript; Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821 Part II: two discarded fragmentsVolume 3'The Sport of Fortune', Blackwood's Magazine (1821); 'Jean Paul Frederick Richter': 'The Happy Life of the Parish Priest in Sweden', 'Last Will and Testament - The House of Weeping', London Magazine (1821), 'Letters to a Young Man Whose Education has been Neglected': 'Literature and Authorship', 'Outline of the Work', 'On Languages', Letter to the Editor (Lions's Head), 'On Languages' (continued), 'On the English Notices of Kant' London Magazine (1823); [Anecdotage (Lion's Head)], London Magazine (1823); 'Anecdotage, 1. Miss Hawkin's Anecdotes' London Magazine (1823); 'Death of a German Man', London Magazine (1823); 'Notes from the Pocket Book of a Late Opium-Eater': 'Anglo-German Dictionaries', 'Prefiguration of Remote Events', 'Moral Effects of Revolutions', London Magazine (1823); 'Notes from the Pocket Book of a Late Opium-Eater': I. 'Walking Stewart', II. 'Malthus'/'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth', III. 'English Dictionaries'/'Reformadoes'/'Proverbs'/'Antagonism'/'To the Lakers'/'On Suicide', London Magazine (1823); 'Lions Head', XYZ letter responding to Hazlitt's charge of plagiarism in Malthus, London Magazine (1824); 'Notes from the Pocket Book of a Late Opium-Eater': IV. 'False Distinctions/Madness/English Physiology', V. 'Superficial Knowledge/Manuscripts of Melmoth/Scriptural Allusion Explained', 'Falsification of the History of England', London Magazine (1823);'Mr Schnackenburger; or Two Masters for One Dog', London Magazine (1823); 'The Dice', London Magazine (1823), 'The King of Hayti', London Magazine (1823); 'Measure of Value', London Magazine (1823); 'The Fatal Marksman', in Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations (1823); 'The Incognito; or Count Fitz-Hum', Knight's Quarterly Magazine (1824); 'The Somnambulist', Knight's Quarterly (1824); Selected manuscript transcriptsVolume 4'Historico-Critical Inquiry into the Origins of the Rosicrucians and Free-Masons', London Magazine (1824); 'Analects from John Paul Richter', London Magazine (1824); 'Dream upon the Universe, from John Paul Richter', London Magazine; 'The Services of Mr Ricardo to the Science of Political Economy', London Magazine (1824); 'Dialogues of Three Templars on Political Economy' (1824); 'Education. Plans for the Instruction of Boys in Large Numbers', London Magazine (1824); 'Kant on National Character, in Relation to the Sense of the Sublime and the Beautiful', London Magazine (1824); 'Abstract of Swedenborgianism: by Immanuel Kant', London Magazine (1824); 'Goethe [Wilhelm Meister]', London Magazine (1824); 'Idea of a Universal History on Cosmo-Political Plan, by Immanuel Kant', London Magazine (1824); 'Walladmor: Sir Walter Scott's German Novel', London Magazine (1824); Walladmor (1825); 'The Street Companion; or the Young Man's Guide and the Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of Shoes', London Magazine (1825)Volume 5[Observations on Diet], [Review of the Edinburgh Review for June 1827; Part One of Two], [Review of the Edinburgh Review for June 1827; Part Two of Two], 'Klopstock, from the Danish', [Mr Canning's Death], [New Ministerial Arrangements], [The Nomination of Mr Herries], 'West India Petition', [Meeting at Birmingham], [Every Night Book], ['Harlequin Changes in this Drama of Faction'], [Review of Blackwood's Magazine for September 1827], 'Owen of Lanark', 'Mr Canning and the Aristocracy', [King James I of Scotland], 'Mexican Bonds', 'The Standard Newspaper', [Professor Wilson and the London Sun and Standard], [Owen of Lanark; An Editor's Apology], [News from Spain and Portugal], 'Triple Alliance', [The Catalonian Insurrection; Rumours of the Press], [Review of Blackwood's Magazine for October 1827], 'Waste Lands and Emigration', 'Emigration Report', 'Tales of all Nations', [Italian Tragedy: Foreign Quarterly Review], 'Disciples of Mr Malthus', 'Bank of England', Quarterly Review, no 72, and the Standard Newspaper - On the Doctrine of Rent, 'Plagiarism; To the Editor of the Edinburgh Saturday Post', [Review of Blackwood's Magazine for November 1827], [No News from Navarino], 'Political Economy; The Standard and the Edinburgh Saturday Post', [The Battle of Navarino; First Reports], [Review of the Edinburgh Review for October 1827; Part One of Two], [The Battle of Navarino; The Aftermath], [Review of the Edinburgh Review for October 1827; Part Two of Two], [The Battle of Navarino; Rumours from Paris], [Review of Blackwood's Magazine for December 1827], [Rumours of War], [Cornillon's Dictionnaire and the Teaching of Languages], [The First Casualty of War], [Review of the Foreign Quarterly Review for November 1827], 'Italian Opera [First Article - Rossini's Barber of Seville]', [London Newspapers and the Change of Government], ['How Easy is the Descent'; Andrew Thompson and the Bible Societies], 'Italian Opera [Second Article - Rossini's Il Turco in Italia]', ['War may be Avoided'], ['This State of Indetermination'], 'Letters of Junius [Part One of Three]', Edinburgh Saturday Post (1827); Letters of Junius [Part Two of Three]', 'Letters of Junius [Part Three of Three]', Edinburgh Saturday Post (1828); 'Italian Opera [Third Article - 'Our Italian Friends']', Edinburgh Saturday Post (1827); [The Battle of Navarino; Rumours Affirmed], 'Vocal Concert', 'Italian Opera [Fourth Article - Rossini and Others]', [The Prospects of France and Great Britain], 'Moscheles' Concert', [The End of the Coalition], Edinburgh Saturday Post (1828); 'The Ministry', Edinburgh Saturday Post (1827); [The King's Speech], ['The Sublimest Rat upon Record'], 'Moscheles' Morning Concert', 'Dr Begnis' Concert (Last Night)', 'Mr Huskisson's Re-Election', [Mr Huskisson's Character], [The Dissolution of the Late Government and the Constitution of the Present], ['Pick-Lock to a Place'; Repeal of the Test Acts], 'Professional Concert', [Anatomy of Drunkenness], 'Emigration', [Review of the Edinburgh Review for January 1828], [Reply to 'Antehellenistes'], ['On the Subject of Emigration'], [Two Words of John Ramsay M'Culloch], [As Strong as 'Sealing-Wax'] [The Corn Bill], 'Turkey', 'Miss E Paton's Concert', [Rumours from Paris], [The Transference of an Elective Franchise], ['The Great Question - War or No War?'], [The Foreign Journals], ['The Pretensions of Phrenology'], Edinburgh Saturday Post (1828)Volume 6'Gillies's German Stories', Blackwood's Magazine (1826); 'Gallery of the German Prose Classics. No. I - Lessing', Blackwood's Magazine (1826); 'Gallery of the German Prose Classics. No. II - Lessing', Blackwood's Magazine (1827); 'Gallery of the German Prose Classics. No. III - Kant', Blackwood's Magazine (1827); 'On Murder Considered As One of the Fine Arts', Blackwood's Magazine (1827); 'Toilette of the Hebrew Lady', Blackwood's Magazine (1828); 'Elements of the Rhetoric', Blackwood's Magazine (1828); 'On the Policy of Russia', Edinburgh Evening Post (1828); [News from Portugal and London], Edinburgh Evening Post (1828); [As We Predicted], Edinburgh Evening Post (1828); 'West India Property [Part One of Two]', Edinburgh Evening Post (1828); 'West India Property [Part Two of Two]', Edinburgh Evening Post (1828); 'Mr O'Connell and the Clare Election', Edinburgh Evening Post (1828); [News from Portugal, Russia, and Ireland], Edinburgh Evening Post (1828); [To a Reader: Invitation to a Set-to on Greek Literature], Edinburgh Evening Post (1828); [To a Reader: On Coleridge, Southey, and 'The Devil's Walk'], Edinburgh Evening Post (1828); 'Derry Dawson', Edinburgh Evening Post (1828); 'State of Ireland', Edinburgh Evening Post (1828); [Memoires sur l'Imperatrice Josephine], Edinburgh Evening Post (1828); 'General Mournings', Edinburgh Evening Post (1828); ['The March of Liberalism'], Edinburgh Evening Post (1829); ['The Sweeping Hand of Liberalism'], Edinburgh Evening Post (1829); Selected manuscript transcriptsVolume 7'Sketch of Professor Wilson [Part I]', Edinburgh Literary Gazette (1829); 'Sketch of Professor Wilson [Part II]', Edinburgh Literary Gazette (1829); 'Sketch of Professor Wilson [Part III]', Edinburgh Literary Gazette (1829): 'The Duke of Wellington and Mr Peel', Blackwood's Magazine (1829); 'Kant in his Miscellaneous Essays', Blackwood's Magazine (1830); 'Life of Richard Bentley, D D by J H Monk, D D [Part I]', Blackwood's Magazine (1840); 'Life of Richard Bentley, D D by J H Monk, D D [Part II]', Blackwood's Magazine (1840); 'French Revolution', Blackwood's Magazine (1830); 'France and England', Blackwood's Magazine (1830); 'Political Anticipations', Blackwood's Magazine (1830); 'The Late Cabinet', Blackwood's Magazine (1830); 'The Present Cabinet in Relation to the Times', Blackwood's Magazine (1831); Posthumously Published Item: 'Novels, 1830', The Archivist, and Autograph Review (1888)Volume 8'Dr Parr and his Contemporaries [No. I]', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1831); 'Dr Parr and his Contemporaries No. II', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1831); 'Dr Parr and his Contemporaries No. III', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1831); 'Dr Parr and his Contemporaries No. IV', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1831); 'On the Approaching Revolution in Great Britain', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1831); 'The Prospects of Britain', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1832); 'M'Gregor's British America', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1832); 'James's History of Charlemagne', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1832); 'Milton', Gallery of Portraits (1832); Klosterheim: or, The Masque (1832); Manuscript transcript: On Reform as Affecting the Habits of Private LifeVolume 9'The Caesars. Part I', Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1832); 'The Caesars. Chap. II', Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1832); 'The Caesars. Chapter III', Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1833); 'The Caesars. Chap. IV', Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1834); 'The Caesars. Chapter V', Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1834); 'The Caesars. Chapter VI', Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1834); 'The Revolution of Greece, Part I', Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1833); 'Revolt of the Tartars', Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1837); 'The Household Wreck', Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1838); 'The Avenger', Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1838); 'Age of the Earth', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1833); 'Mrs Hannah More', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1833); 'Animal Magnetism', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1834); 'A Tory's Account of Toryism, Whiggism and Radicalism [Part I]', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1835); 'A Tory's Account of Toryism, Whiggism and Radicalism [Part II]', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1836); Selected manuscript transcriptsVolume 10'Sketches of Life and Manners; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater' including 'The Irish Rebellion', Travelling in England Thirty Years Ago: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater', 'Literary Connexions or Acquaintances', Tait's Magazine (1834-8); 'Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater: Recollections of Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge', Tait's Magazine (1834-8); selected manuscript transcriptsVolume 11'A Brief Appraisal of Greek Literature', Tait's Magazine (1838-39); 'Lake Reminiscences from 1807 to 1830', Tait's Magazine (1839); 'Sketches of Life and Manners', Tait's Magazine (1839-41); 'Dilemmas of the Corn Law Question', Blackwood's Magazine (1839); 'The English Language', Blackwood's Magazine (1839); 'On Hume's Argument Against Miracles', Blackwood's Magazine (1839); 'Casuistry', Blackwood's Magazine (1839-40); 'On the True Relations to Civilisations and Barbarism of the Roman Western Empire', Blackwood's Magazine (1839); 'Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' Blackwood's Magazine (1839); 'Dinner Real and Reputed', Blackwood's Magazine (1839); 'Milton', Blackwood's Magazine (1839); 'On the Essenes', Blackwood's Magazine (1840); 'Theory of Greek Tragedy', Blackwood's Magazine (1840); 'Modern Superstition', Blackwood's Magazine (1840); 'The Opium and the China Question', Blackwood's Magazine (1840); Postscript on the China and the Opium Question', Blackwood's Magazine (1840); Selected manuscript transcriptsVolume 12'Style [No. 1]','Style No. II', 'Style No. III', 'Style No. IV', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840); 'Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840); 'Hints for the Hustings', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849); 'Foreign Politics', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840); 'Conservative Prospects', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841); 'The Dourraunee Empire', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841); 'Niebuhr', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841); 'Russia as it was in the Summer and Winter of 1812', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841); 'Plato's Republic', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841); 'Sir Robert Peel's Position on Next Resuming Power', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841); Selected manuscript transcriptsVolume 13'Homer and the Homeridae [Part I]' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841); Homer and the Homeridae Part II' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841); Homer and the Homeridae Part III' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841); 'Canton Expedition and Convention', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841); 'Philosophy of Herodotus', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842); 'The Pagan Oracles', Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1842); Sir Robert Peel's Policy' Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1832); 'Cicero', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842); 'Modern Greece', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842); 'Goethe', Encyclopaedia Britannica (1841); 'Pope', Encyclopaedia Britannica (1842); 'Schiller', Encyclopaedia Britannica (1842); 'Shakspeare', Encyclopaedia Britannica (1842); Selected manuscript transcriptsVolume 14'Anti-Corn Law Deputation to Sir Robert Peel', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842); 'The Riots', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842); 'Ricardo Made Easy; or, What is the Radical Difference Between Ricardo and Adam Smith?', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843); 'The Aristocracy of England', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843); 'The Rebel Agitation', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843); 'The Last Session of Parliament', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843); 'Ceylon', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843); 'The Game Up With Rebel Agitation', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843); 'The Logic of Political Economy' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1844)Volume 15'Secession from the Church of Scotland', Blackwood's Magazine (1844); 'Ireland', Blackwood's Magazine (1844); 'Affghanistan', Blackwood's Magazine (1844); 'Greece Under the Romans', Blackwood's Magazine (1844); 'Coleridge and Opium-Eating', Blackwood's Magazine (1845); 'Suspiria De Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater', Blackwood's Magazine (1845); 'Maynooth', Blackwood's Magazine (1845); 'On Wordsworth's Poetry', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1845); 'On the Temperance Movement of Modern Times', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1845); 'Notes on Gilfillan's Gallery of Literary Portraits: Godwin, Foster, Hazlitt, Shelley, Keats' Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1845); 'The Antigone of Sophocles, as represented on the Edinburgh Stage in December 1845', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1846); 'Memoirs and Corresponderce of the Marquess Wellesley', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1846); 'On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1846); 'Glance at the Works of Mackintosh', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1846); 'System of the Heavens as revealed by Lord Rosse's Telscopes', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1846); Selected manuscript transcriptsVolume 16'Notes on Walter Savage Landor', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1847); 'Orthographic Mutineers', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1847); 'Milton versus Southey and Landor', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1847); 'Joan of Arc', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1847); 'The Nautical-Military Nun of Spain', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1847); 'Secret Societies', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1847); 'Schlosser's Literary History of the Eighteenth Century', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1847); 'Conversation', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1847); 'Protestanism', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1847); 'War', Macphail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal (1848); 'Sortilege on Behalf of the Glasgow Athenaeum', Glasgow Athenaeum Album (1848); 'The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith', North British Review (1848); 'The Works of Alexander Pope, Esquire', North British Review (1848); 'Final Memorials of Charles Lamb', North British Review (1848); 'The English Mail-Coach, or the Glory of Motion', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849); 'The Vision of Sudden Death', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849); Selected manuscript transcriptsVolume 17'Conversation', Hogg's Instructor (1850); 'The Sphinx's Riddle', Hogg's Instructor (1850); 'Logic', Hogg's Instructor (1850); 'Professor Wilson', Hogg's Instructor (1850); 'French and English Manners', Hogg's Instructor (1850); 'Presence of Mind: A Fragment', Hogg's Instructor (1850); 'On the Present Stage of the English Language', Hogg's Instructor (1850); 'Introductory letter and first part of A Sketch From Childhood', Hogg's Instructor (1851); 'A Sketch From Childhood No. II', Hogg's Instructor (1851); 'A Sketch From Childhood No. III', Hogg's Instructor (1852); 'A Sketch From Childhood No. IV', Hogg's Instructor (1852); 'A Sketch From Childhood No. V', Hogg's Instructor (1852); 'A Sketch From Childhood No. VI', Hogg's Instructor (1852); 'A Sketch From Childhood No. VII', Hogg's Instructor (1852); 'Sir William Hamilton, Bart.', Hogg's Instructor (1852); 'Sir William Hamilton, with a glance at his logical reforms (first paper)', Hogg's Instructor (1852); 'Sir William Hamilton, with a glance at his logical reforms (second paper)', Hogg's Instructor (1852); 'California', Hogg's Instructor (1852); 'Lord Carlisle on Pope [I]', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1851); 'Lord Carlisle on Pope [II]', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1851); '[Lord Carlisle on] Pope [III]', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1851); 'Appendix [to 'Lord Carlisle on Pope']', SGG (1859); Selected manuscript transcriptsVolume 18'On the Supposed Scriptural Expression for Eternity', Hogg's Instructor (1853); 'Judas Iscariot', Hogg's Instructor (1853); 'Table-Talk', Hogg's Instructor (1853); 'On the Final Catastrophe of the Gold-Digging Mania', Hogg's Instructor (1853); 'How to Write English, Introductory Paper', Hogg's Instructor (1853); 'Shakespeare's Text - Suetonius Unravelled', Titan (1856); 'Storms in English History', Titan (1856); 'The Lake Dialect: a Letter from Thomas De Quicey', Titan (1857); 'China [I]', Titan (1857); 'China [II]', Titan (1857); Preliminary Note and Preface to the revision of 'China', China (1857); Postscript to the revision of 'China', China (1857); 'Hints Towards an Appreciation of the Coming War in China', Titan (1857); 'Hurried Notices of Indian Affairs', Titan (1857); 'Passing Notices of Indian Affairs', Titan (1857); 'Suggestions upon the Secret of the Mutiny', Titan (1857); Selected manuscript transcriptsVolume 19Autobiographical Sketches, (1853); Autobiographical Sketches, (1854)Volume 20Prefaces &c. to the Collected Editions; Published addenda; Marginalia; Manuscript addenda; Undateable manuscriptsVolume 21Transcripts of unlocated manuscripts; General index to the edition

About the Author

Grevel Lindop is at the University of Manchester Edmund Baxter is an independent scholar Frederick Burwick is at the University of California, Los Angeles Alina Clej is at the University of Michigan David Groves is an independent scholar Robert Morrison is at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada Julian North is at De Montfort University Daniel Roberts is at Queen's University, Belfast Laura Roman is at Worcester College, Oxford Barry Symonds is at the University of Manchester John Whale is at the University of Leeds

Reviews

'The set under review here, now complete, renders all other [critical editions] obsolete. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended'- N Fruman, CHOICE'When this project is complete it will quite simply be the critical standard for the foreseeable future. All institutional libraries and Romantic scholars should have it on their shelves.'- Duncan Wu, TEXT Reviews'the contributors have deployed a fine combination of painstaking scholarship and critical tact'- Gregory Dart, The Times Literary Supplement

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