James Russell Lowell gathers six substantial critical essays: a lively reassessment of Dryden, a survey of the history of witchcraft belief, a fresh look at Shakespeare’s language, a portrait of New England two centuries back, a study of Lessing, and a sharp treatment of Rousseau and the sentimentalists.
Learned, witty criticism from one of the leading American men of letters of the nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.