The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

General Editor's Preface, Andrew Rutherford; Note on the Text, Dhanireddy R. Reddy; Introduction, Andrew Rutherford; Part 1 Hours of Idleness; Chapter 1 Henry P. Brougham, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, Andrew Rutherford; Part 2 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; Chapter 2 From an unsigned review, Gentleman's Magazine, Andrew Rutherford; Part 3 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Cantos I and II; Chapter 3 Some contemporary comments, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 4 Francis Jeffrey, from his unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 5 George Ellis, from his unsigned review, Quarterly Review, George Ellis; Part 4 The Turkish Tales, George Ellis; Chapter 6 Jeffrey, from his unsigned review of The Corsair and The Bride of Abydos, Edinburgh Review, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 7 Ellis from his unsigned review of The Corsair and Lara, Quarterly Review, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 8 Some contemporary comments, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 9 Verse commentaries on Byron's poetry 1812-1815, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 10 Wordsworth on Byron's lack of genius April 1816, Andrew Rutherford; Part 5 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III; Chapter 11 Some first reactions, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 12 Scott, from his unsigned review, Quarterly Review, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 13 Jeffrey, from his unsigned, review, Edinburgh Review, Andrew Rutherford; Part 6 Manfred; Chapter 14 John Wilson, from his unsigned review, Blackwood's Magazine, John Wilson; Chapter 15 Jeffrey, from his unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 16 Goethe on Manfred, 1817 1820, Andrew Rutherford; Part 7 Beppo February 1818; Chapter 17 Some early opinions, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 18 'Presbyter Anglicanus', from a 'Letter to the Author of Beppo', Blackwood's Magazine, Andrew Rutherford; Part 8 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto IV April 1818; Chapter 19 Hazlitt, from his unsigned review, Yellow Dwarf, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 20 Scott, from his unsigned review, Quarterly Review, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 21 John Wilson, from his unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, John Wilson; Chapter 22 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Thomas Love Peacock on Byronic misanthropy 1818, Andrew Rutherford; Part 9 Don Juan, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 23 Some reactions to Cantos I and II 1818-21, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 24 Blackwood's Magazine's 'Remarks on Don Juan', Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 25 Leigh Hunt, from his unsigned review of Cantos I and II, Examiner, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 26 Robert Southey on Don Juan and the Satanic School of Poetry, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 27 From John Gibson Lockhart's anonymous Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron., John Bull; Chapter 28 Croker read Cantos III and IV, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 29 Shelley on Cantos III, IV and V., Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 30 Jeffrey on Don Juan, Andrew Rutherford; Part 10 The Dramas, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 31 Hazlitt, from his unsigned review of Marino Faliero, London Magazine, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 32 Jeffrey, from his unsigned review of Marino Faliero, Edinburgh Review, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 33 Some reactions to Cain 1821, 1822, 1824, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 34 Three orthodox attacks on Cain, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 35 Leigh Hunt, Examiner, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 36 Jeffrey, from his unsigned review of Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari and Cain, Edinburgh Review, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 37 Reginald Heber, from his unsigned review of Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari and Cain, Quarterly Review, Reginald Heber; Part 11 The Vision of Judgment; Chapter 38 Contemporary comments, Andrew Rutherford; Part 12 Don Juan (1819-21); Chapter 39 Blackwood's Magazine, on Don Juan Cantos VI to VIII and IX to XI, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 40 Some minor reviewers on Don Juan, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 41 Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges on Don Juan, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 42 Dismissive comments on Byron, by Keats, Coleridge, Lamb, Southey and Wordsworth, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 43 Hazlitt on Byron, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 44 Newman and Goethe: Don Juan unpoetical?, 1829 1871;, 1827 1850, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 45 Galt, Moore and Northcote on Don Juan, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 46 Carlyle on Byron and Byronism, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 47 Macaulay on Byron, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 48 Bulwer-Lytton on Byron's popularity, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 49 Henry Taylor on Byron's deficiencies as a poet, Henry Taylor; Chapter 50 Mazzini on Byron and Liberty, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 51 Thackeray on Byron's insincerity, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 52 Peo on Byron's metrics, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 53 Kingsley on Shelley and Byron, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 54 Bagehot on the mere fashion for Byron, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 55 Byron and working-class readers: three points of view 1845; 1869, 1866; 1887, 1900, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 56 Swinburne's defence of Byron, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 57 John Morley on Byron and the Revolution, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 58 John Addington Symonds on Byron, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 59 Ruskin on Byron, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 60 Arnold on Byron, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 61 W. E. Henley on Byron, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 62 Swinburne's attack on Byron, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 63 Saintsbury on Byron's second-rateness, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 64 Paul Elmer More on Byron's classicism, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 65 Chesterton on Byron s optimism, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 66 J. Churton Collins on Byron's greatness, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 67 J. F. A. Pyre on Byron and modern taste, Andrew Rutherford; Chapter 68 Arthur Symons on Byron, Andrew Rutherford;