Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

A Note on the Text

 

Prologue: The Sphinx’s Riddle

 

PART ONE: Dreams, 1785–1804

 1  Life is Finished

 2  The Ray of a New Morning

 3  Down and Out in Manchester and London

 4  Letters of a Young Man

 

PART TWO: The Magic Fix, 1804–19

 5  High Culture

 6  Lives of the Poets

 7  The Road of Excess

 

PART THREE: The Magic Prefix, 1819–41

 8  Famous

 9  En Route

10 Urban Intellectual

11 Tales of Terror

 

PART FOUR: Suspiria, 1841–59

12 Lasswade

13 The End of Night

14 Recollected

 

Epilogue: The Aggregate of Human Life

 

Appendix: The Value of Money, 1780–1860

Notes

Bibliography

Index