| Description |
x, 382 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
A song to David -- Montaigne -- Shakespeare in Arden -- The phœnix nest -- England's helicon -- Epictetus -- Fathers of the church -- The agony of the Middle Ages -- Rochester -- Gentlest Otway -- Pope and Mrs. Lytton Strachey -- Notre Dame des amours -- Cibber's apology -- A sentimental shepherd -- Hannah More -- The physiology of taste -- Tom Moore in Wiltshire -- La nouvelle Héloise -- "Original poems" -- Sidonia the sorceress -- Walt Whitman -- The Squire of Blankney -- The matriarch -- René Boylesve -- Mr. Sassoon's satires -- Miss Sitwell's poems -- The black cat -- Gissing -- Mallarmé -- Samuel Butler's essays -- A blind poet -- A viceroy and his note-book - "Cummy" -- A great lady -- Bodley and the Bodleian -- The prose of Dr. Johnson -- The emergency |
| Notes |
Essays |
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First ed.; cf. E. Charteris, The life and letters of Sir Edmund Gosse, p. 518 |
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Includes index |
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Also issued online |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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| LC no. |
nun00447874 |
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