Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature

Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature

Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another, this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism. Thus, the notes on Longfellow, Balzac, Sidney, Tourneur, Arabian Nights Entertainments, Borrow, George Eliot, and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in Londona print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it; those on Labiche, Champfleury, Richardson, Fielding, Byron, Gay, Congreve, Boswell, Essays and Essayists, Jefferies, Hood, Matthew Arnold, Lever, Thackeray, Dickens, M. Thodore de Banville, Mr. Austin Dobson, and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to The Athenum; those on Dumas, Count Tolstos novels, and the verse of Dr. Hake from The Saturday Review; those on Walton, Landor, and Heine from The Scots Observer, The Academy, and Vanity Fair respectively; while the Disraeli has been pieced together from London, Vanity Fair, and The Athenum; the Berlioz from The Scots Observer and p. viiiThe Saturday Review; the Tennyson from The Scots Observer and The Magazine of Art; the Homer and Theocritus from Vanity Fair and the defunct Teacher; the Hugo from The Athenum, The Magazine of Art, and an unpublished fragment written for The Scottish Church. In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged; but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new, while little or none remains as it was. I venture, then, to hope that the result, for all its scrappiness, will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 22280
Author: Henley, William Ernest
Release Date: Aug 8, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English