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The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols.
THE LOVES OF THE POETS.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
THE ROMANCE OF BIOGRAPHY;
OR
MEMOIRS OF WOMEN LOVED AND CELEBRATED BY POETS,
FROM
THE DAYS OF THE TROUBADOURS TO THE PRESENT AGE;
SERIES OF ANECDOTES INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE THE INFLUENCE WHICH FEMALE BEAUTY AND VIRTUE HAVE EXERCISED OVER THE CHARACTERS AND WRITINGS OF MEN OF GENIUS.
BY MRS. JAMESON,
Authoress of the Diary of an Ennuyée; Lives of Celebrated
Female Sovereigns; Female Characters of Shakespeare's Plays; Beauties of the
Court of Charles the Second.
THIRD EDITION,
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
SAUNDERS AND OTLEY.
MDCCCXXXVII.
CONTENTS
OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
Page
CHAPTER I.
Carew's Celia.—Lucy Sacheverel 1
CHAPTER II.
Waller's Sacharissa 15
CHAPTER III.
Beauties and Poets in the Reign of Charles I. 33
CHAPTER IV.
Conjugal Poetry.
Ovid and Perilla—Seneca's Paulina—Sulpicia—Clotilde de Surville 43
CHAPTER V.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Vittoria Colonna 60
CHAPTER VI.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Veronica Gambara—Camilla Valentini—Portia Rota—Castiglione 81
CHAPTER VII.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Doctor Donne and his Wife—Habington's Castara 94
CHAPTER VIII.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
The Two Zappi 131
CHAPTER IX.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Lord Lyttelton—Prince Frederick—Doctor Parnell 139
CHAPTER X.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Klopstock and Meta 154
CHAPTER XI.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Bonnie Jean—Highland Mary—Loves of Burns 182
CHAPTER XII.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Monti and his Wife 209
CHAPTER XIII.
Poets and Beauties from Charles II. to Queen Anne.
Cowley's Eleonora—Maria d'Este—Anne Killegrew—Lady Hyde—Granville's Mira—Prior's Chloe—Duchess of Queensbury 218
CHAPTER XIV.
Swift, Stella and Vanessa 240
CHAPTER XV.
Pope and Martha Blount 274
CHAPTER XVI.
Pope and Lady M. W. Montagu 287
CHAPTER XVII.
Poetical old Bachelors.
Gray—Collins—Goldsmith—Shenstone—Thomson—Hammond 308
CHAPTER XVIII.
French Poets.
Voltaire and Madame du Châtelet—Madame de Gouverné 317
CHAPTER XIX.
French Poets (continued.)
Madame d'Houdetot 333
CONCLUSION.
Heroines of Modern Poetry 342
THE LOVES OF THE POETS.
CHAPTER I.
CAREW'S CELIA.—LUCY SACHEVEREL.
From the reign of Charles the First may be dated that revolution in the spirit and form of our lyric poetry, which led to its subsequent degradation. The first