[Died: Washington. Born: T. Hood; Mary Howitt (d. 1888). [Campbell's Pleasures of Hope; Godwin's St. Leon; Anna Seward's Sonnets.

H. went to the theatre for the first time.

[Union of England and Ireland.

[Died: Cowper. Born: Macaulay; Pusey (d. 1882); Sir
Henry Taylor (d. 1886); Chas. Wells (d. 1879).
[Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy; Coleridge's and Wordsworth's
Lyrical Ballads, 2nd edition; Christabel, Part II, written;
Miss Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent; Gifford's Epistle to Peter
Pindar; Moore's Anacreon; Schiller's Wallenstein (and
Coleridge's trans.).

Poems in the European Magazine (Melancholy') and The
Juvenile Library (Retirement ').

Juvenilia, two editions (Dedication dated 1800).

Article in The Monthly Preceptor, leading to H.'s engagement

to Marianne Kent.

[Battles of the Baltic and Copenhagen.

[Born: J. H. Newman (d. 1890); Lord Shaftesbury (d. 1885). [Moore's Poems of Thos. Little; Southey's Thalaba.

Juvenilia, third edition, with portrait by R. Bowyer, miniature painter to the king.

Portrait of H. by John Jackson, R.A., also about this period. Engaged on a tragedy, 'The Earl of Surrey'; also on two farces, The Beau Miser' and A Hundred a Year', and a comedy.

[Peace of Amiens. Sir F. Burdett elected for Westminster (election declared void, 1804).

[Died: Erasmus Darwin. Born: Letitia E. Landon; Harriet Martineau (d. 1876).

[Cobbett's Political Register, i; Edinburgh Review, i; Gifford's Juvenal; Landor's Poetry; Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border; Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (abridgement). Engagement renewed with Marianne Kent. Clerk to his brother Stephen, an attorney. Clerk in the War Office. Alarm of invasion. H. a volunteer.

[War with France renewed.

[Died: Alfieri; Beattie. Born: T. L. Beddoes; Emerson (d. 1882); R. H. Horne (d. 1884); D. Jerrold; Bulwer Lytton (d. 1873).

[Coleridge's Poems; Hayley's Life of Cowper; début of W. H. Betty ('The Young Roscius ').

Contributes to The Traveller, over the signature Mr. Town, Jnr., Critic and Censor-general', with reference to the pseudonym of Bonnell Thornton and George Colman in The Connoisseur (1754).

[Blake tried for sedition.

[Born: Laman Blanchard; B. Disraeli (d. 1881); Hawthorne (d. 1864).

[Du Bois' translation of Boccaccio's Decameron.

Reading Voltaire, Boileau's Lutrin (see p. 496); and Tassoni's
Rape of the Bucket.

Writing theatrical criticisms in The News, edited by John Hunt,
with whom he was living.

Speaks of an Essay by himself On Heroi-Comic Poetry

[Battles of Trafalgar and Austerlitz.

[Report of Committee on Ossian.

[Died: Paley. Born: Harrison Ainsworth (d. 1882); Hans Andersen (d. 1875); F. D. Maurice (d. 1872); Mazzini (d. 1872).

[Cary's Dante's Inferno; Ellis's Metrical Romances; Gifford's Massinger; Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel; Southey's Madoc.

[Lamb's Mr. H.

Classic Tales, 5 vols. (1806-7), with essays by L.H.

John Hunt starts The Statesman newspaper.
[Died: C. J. Fox; William Pitt.

Born: E. B. Barrett

(afterwards Mrs. Browning; d. 1861); J. S. Mill (d. 1873). [Duel between Jeffrey and Moore.

[Landor's Simonidea; Jas. Montgomery's Wanderer; Moore's Odes and Epistles; Lady Morgan's Wild Irish Girl.

At 2 Little Tichfield Street.

Contributed theatrical criticisms to The Times, about this time.
Friendship with Barron Field.

[Burdett elected for Westminster. Meeting of Coleridge and
De Quincey.

[Died: Angelica Kauffmann. Born: Longfellow (d. 1882); Whittier (d. 1892).

[Byron's Hours of Idleness; Crabbe's Parish Register; Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare; Moore's Irish Melodies, i. [Stothard's Canterbury Pilgrims exhibited. Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres. By the author of the theatrical criticisms in . . . The News. 1807.' John Hunt starts The Examiner (January 3). L.H. as editor. (Circulation, November, 2,200.)

The Examiner prosecuted (October) for article on Military
Depravity'; acquitted.

L.H. resigned his clerkship in War Office (December 26), sacrifi-
cing a salary of £100 p. a.

His song, 'Love and the Aeolian Harp', set to music by John
Whitaker.

[Peninsular War begun. Sir Vicary Gibb wages war against
the freedom of the press.

[Born: Napoleon III (d. 1873); Hon. Mrs. Norton (d. 1877). [Coleridge's Lectures; Goethe's Faust, Part I; Mrs. Hemans's Poems; Lamb's Specimens of the Dramatists; Scott's Marmion and ed. of Dryden ; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid. At Gowland Cottage, Beckenham.

A. D. T.

L.H. invited to write for Quarterly Review. He declined.
Married (July 3).

Morning Chronicle prosecuted for a quotation from The Examiner; acquitted.

An Attempt to show the folly and danger of Methodism (reprinted from The Examiner).

'Silent Kisses' and 'Mary, Mary' (see p. 738) set to music by John Whitaker.

[Retreat from Corunna. Burdett imprisoned on political

charges.

[Died: Isaac Hunt; Tom Paine; Anna Seward. Born:
Charles Darwin (d. 1882); E. FitzGerald (d. 1883);
W. E. Gladstone (d. 1898); O. W. Holmes (d. 1894);
Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865); Monckton Milnes (d. 1895);
Poe; Tennyson (d. 1892).

[Blake's Descriptive Catalogue; Byron's English Bards, &c.;
Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming; Coleridge's Friend;
Hannah More's Coelebs in Search of a Wife; Quarterly
Review, i; Wordsworth's Convention of Cintra.

1810 26 At Beckenham.

Memoir of L.H. by himself in Monthly Mirror (April).
Thornton Leigh Hunt born, September 10.

Friendship with Haydon and Charles Ollier begun.

Projects 'The planet of poets' [Venus], ‘a poem describing the
intermediate state of the most famous bards, ancient and
modern, with their rewards and punishments'.

The Reflector, i; Reformist's Reply to the ' Edinburgh Review'.
[Cobbett fined and imprisoned for article on army flogging.
Shelley goes to Oxford.

[Born: Mrs. Gaskell (d. 1865).

[Crabbe's Borough; Coleridge's Lectures on Shakespeare
Jane Porter's Scottish Chiefs; Scott's Lady of the Lake;
Shelley's St. Irvyne, and Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire ;
Southey's Curse of Kehama.

[Blake's Canterbury Pilgrims (engraving) published.

1811 27 At Beckenham; 37 Portland Street (November); Hampstead. The Examiner prosecuted for an article on army flogging; acquitted. Shelley congratulates L.H.; they meet later

in the year.

The Story of Rimini begun.

'The Feast of the Poets' in The Reflector.

[Prince of Wales became Regent. Shelley expelled from Oxford; with Southey at Keswick; marries Harriet Westbrook.

[Died: Richard Cumberland. Born: John Bright (d. 1889) ; Charles Kean (d. 1868); William Bell Scott (d. 1890); Thackeray (d. 1863).

[Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility; Fouqué's Undine ; Moore's M.P., or The Blue Stocking; Jonathan Scott's

Arabian Nights (first responsible English translation);
Scott's Don Roderick; Shelley's Necessity of Atheism.
[Gillray's last caricature published.

At 37 Portland Street; West End, Hampstead (October-
December).

John Hunt born.

Intimacy with Lamb; correspondence with Brougham.
Libel in The Examiner (March 22) on Prince Regent.

Ill-health (reduced to skin and bone', September).

Trial of John and L.H. (Dec. 8): sentenced to fine and imprisonment.

[French retreat from Moscow.

[Died: Spencer Perceval (assassinated); Horne Tooke. Born: Browning (d. 1889); Dickens (d. 1870); J. Forster (d. 1876).

[Byron's Childe Harold, i, ii; Cary's Dante completed ; Crabbe's Tales in Verse; I. D'Israeli's Calamities of Authors; Landor's Count Julian; Wilson's Isle of Palms.

[J. P. Kemble retired from the stage.

L.H. goes to Horsemonger Lane Gaol (February 3); John
Hunt to Pentonville Prison.

Visited in prison by Bentham, Byron, Brougham, Cowden
Clarke, Miss Edgeworth, Haydon, Hazlitt, the Lambs,
James Mill, Moore, Sir John Swinburne, Wilkie, &c.

H.'s daughter Mary Florimel (afterwards Mrs. John Gliddon)
born in prison.

Seven Sonnets to Hampstead, 1813-14.

[Died: Gen. Moreau (obituary poem by L.H., Examiner, Dec. 5); H. J. Pye (Southey appointed P.L.).

[Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; Byron's Giaour and Bride of Abydos; Moore's Twopenny Post-Bag; Shelley's Queen Mab; Southey's Life of Nelson.

[Coleridge's Remorse at Drury Lane.

Correspondence with Moore.

The Descent of Liberty written in prison.

The Feast of the Poets, &c.

[Napoleon's abdication.

[The Champion newspaper started.

Examiner.

Hazlitt writes for The

[Shelley and Mary Godwin leave England together.

[Born: Baroness Burdett-Coutts (d. 1906); Charles Reade
(d. 1884).

[Jane Austen's Mansfield Park; Byron's Corsair; I. D'Israeli's
Quarrels of Authors; J. H. Reynolds's Safie (references to
Hunt in notes); Scott's Waverley, and Life of Swift;
Wordsworth's Excursion.

[Edmund Kean's first appearance in London.

Hunt leaves prison, February 3.

At 4 Maida Vale, Edgware

Road (till September). Returns to Hampstead (October).

Pencil sketch portrait by T. Wageman, drawn at the request of
Vincent Novello on H.'s leaving prison.

The Descent of Liberty and The Feast of the Poets, &c., ed. 2.
The Round Table': forty-eight articles by L.H. and Hazlitt
in The Examiner, 1815-17 (in book form, 1817).
H. introduced to Wordsworth by Haydon.

[Napoleon leaves Elba.

Battle of Waterloo.

Wales leaves England. Byron married.

Princess of

[Scott's Guy Mannering and Lord of the Isles; Wordsworth's White Doe of Rylstone.

At Vale of Health, Hampstead.

Poetical epistles to Byron, Barron Field, Hazlitt, Lamb, and
Moore in The Examiner.

The Story of Rimini (dedicated to 'My dear Byron ').

Made acquaintance of Keats; renewed acquaintance with
Shelley (November), who gave him £1,400. L.H. reported
'Shelley's new wife' to be 'like a cross baby'.

L.H. prints sonnets by Keats in The Examiner; also article on
'Young Poets' (Shelley, J. H. Reynolds, and Keats).
Musical Copyright. Whitaker v. Hime, with observations by
L.H. defending the morality of his songs set to music by
Whitaker in 1808-9.

[Princess Charlotte married to Prince Leopold.
[Coleridge settles at Highgate.

[Died: Harriet Shelley; Sheridan. Born: Charlotte Brontë.
[Jane Austen's Emma; Byron's Childe Harold, iii; Coleridge's
Christabel, &c.; Gifford's ed. of Jonson; Peacock's Headlong
Hall; J. H. Reynolds's Naiad; Scott's Antiquary and Old
Mortality; Shelley's Alastor; Southey's Lay of the Laureate.
[Macready's début at Covent Garden.

1817 33 Hampstead (April), Maida Hill, Paddington (July); 13 Lisson Grove North (July),

The Story of Rimini, ed. 2.

The Round Table (essays by Hunt and Hazlitt).

At work on 'The Nymphs'; writing for Edinb. Rev. (ed. Francis
Jeffrey).

Visits Shelley at Marlow.

Attacked in Blackwood's Mag. ('The Cockney School of Poetry.')
Keats's admiration for L.H. cools down.

[W. Hone imprisoned. Blackwood's Mag. and Literary
Gazette started.

[Died Jane Austen; Princess Charlotte (see pp. 318-19); Kosciusko (see p. 239). Born: G. H. Lewes (d. 1878).

[Byron's Manfred; Coleridge's Biog. Lit., Sibylline Leaves, and Zapolya; Frere's Whistlecraft; Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare; Lord Holland's Guillen de Castro (from which L.H. took the idea of A Father Avenged); Keats's Poems (dedicated to L.H.); Moore's Lalla Rookh ; Peacock's