Originally published in 1932, this book contains extracts from key Romantic writers and those in their circle to illustrate the friendships between them.

Preface; 1. Christ's Hospital, 1782¿99; 2. Pantisocracy; 3. Lamb's tragedy; 4. Nether Stowey and Alfoxden, 1797¿8; 5. Lamb and Southey; 6. The Lakes, 1800¿2; 7. Wordsworth's Scottish tour, 1803; 8. De Quincey as undergraduate; 9. Southey to Coleridge, 1804; 10. Lamb to Wordsworth; 11. Mr H-; 12. To William Wordsworth; 13. The Lake poets; 14. Byron in 1809; 15. Literary London; 16. The Laureateship; 17. Leigh Hunt in prison; 18. The Excursion; 19. Lamb at home; 20. Wordsworth in London; 21. Byron in London; 22. Coleridge and Lady Hamilton; 23. Lamb to Wordsworth; 24. Byron and Shelley in Switzerland; 25. Crabb Robinson among the Lakes; 26. Shelley in England; 27. Byron on his contemporaries; 28. Dedicatory sonnet to Leigh Hunt; 29. London, 1817¿18; 30. Shelley and Byron; 31. Keats and Coleridge; 32. The Waggoner; 33. Coleridge; 34. The Cenci; 35. The Wordsworths in town; 36. Shelley and Keats; 37. London from abroad; 38. On the conversation of authors; 39. Lamb to Hazlitt; 40. Coleridge as book-borrower; 41. Hunt on Lamb and Coledridge; 42. De Quincey in London; 43. Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt and Shelley; 44. Scott; 45. The death of Keats; 46. Byron at Ravenna and Pisa; 47. The death of Shelley; 48. After Shelley's death; 49. Lamb to Coleridge; 50. Lamb to Bernard Barton; 51. Byron on his contemporaries; 52. Lamb on Byron; 53. Lamb on Wordsworth; 54. Wordsworth, Lamb and Moore; 55. Leigh Hunt in Florence; 56. Lamb's friends; 57. Lamb's retirement; 58. Blake; 59. The last night at Abbotsford; 60. Landor and Lamb; 61. Coleridge on Wordsworth; 62. Elia; 63. To Southey, 1833; 64. The death of Coleridge; 65. Landor to Crabb Robinson; 66. Aftermath; Index.