A Publisher and his Circle

This account, originally published in 1972, examines the life and work of John Taylor, the founder of the publishing house of Taylor & Hessey which brought out the work of Keats, Clare, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Carlyle, Lamb, Coleridge and many more. A fascinating piece of literary, social and publishing history.

Tim Chilcott was formerly Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of Chichester, UK

Preface 1. Apprenticeship: 1781-1816 2. 'A True Poet': Taylor and Keats, 1817-21 3. The Years of Expansion, 1817-20: Leigh Hunt, Hazlitt, Cary, and the Reviews 4. Taylor & Clare: 1819-37 5. The London Magazine: 1821-5 6. The Years 1821-5: Lamb, De Quincey, Carlyle, Landor, and Coleridge 7. 'No Publisher of Poetry Now': 1826-64 8. Literature, the Publisher, and the Reading Public