Lytton Strachey gathers his essays on French and English writers: a defence of Racine for English readers, studies of Sir Thomas Browne and Shakespeare’s final period, Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, the blind salon hostess Madame du Deffand, Voltaire in England and at the court of Frederick the Great, the quarrel over Rousseau, Blake’s poetry, and Thomas Lovell Beddoes as the last Elizabethan.
Criticism as pleasure, by the author of Eminent Victorians, for readers who like their literary history elegant and mischievous. Download the free EPUB.