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.

John D. Jump

Introduction; Chapter 1 W. J. Fox on Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, 1830; Chapter 2 A. H. Hallam on Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, 1830; Chapter 3 Christopher North on Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, 1830; Chapter 4 J. W. Croker on Poem, 1833; Chapter 5 J. S. Mill on Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, 1830] Poems, 1833; Chapter 6 F. Garden, ?] on Poems, 1842; Chapter 7 J. Sterling on Poems, 1842; Chapter 8 Leigh Hunt on Poems, 1842; Chapter 9 R. M. Milnes on Poems, 1842; Chapter 10 J. Spedding on Poems, 1842; Chapter 11 R. H. Horne 'Alfred Tennyson'; Chapter 12 J. W. Marston on The Princess, 1847; Chapter 13 C. Kingsley on In Memoriam, 1850] and Earlier Works; Chapter 14 Goldwin Smith 'The War Passages in Maud', 1855; Chapter 15 G. Brimley on Maud, 1855; Chapter 16 R. J. Mann on Maud, 1855; Chapter 17 Tennyson gives a reading of Maud; Chapter 18 W. Bagehot on the Idylls of the King, 1859; Chapter 19 W. E. Gladstone on the Idylls of the King, 1859] and Earlier Works; Chapter 20 M. Arnold on Tennyson's Simplicity; Chapter 21 H. A. Taine on Tennyson as the poet of Victorian England; Chapter 22 G. M. Hopkins on Parnassian; Chapter 23 W. Bagehot on Enoch Arden, 1864; Chapter 24 A. Austin revalues Tennyson; Chapter 25 J. T. Knowles on the Idylls; Chapter 26 A. C. Swinburne on the Idylls; Chapter 27 E. Dowden on Tennyson as the poet of Law; Chapter 28 G. M. Hopkins on the Idylls; Chapter 29 A. C. Swinburne replies to Taine (No. 21); Chapter 30 Walt Whitman thanks Tennyson; Chapter 31 R. H. Hutton surveys Tennyson's work and replies to Swinburne; Chapter 32 F. W. H. Myers 'Tennyson as Prophet'; Chapter 33 J. M. Robertson 'The Art of Tennyson'; Chapter 34 W. E. Henley 'Tennyson'; Chapter 35 J. C. Collins on Tennyson's Assimilative Skill;