Shorter collects addresses he gave to literary societies and commemorative dinners: tributes to Samuel Johnson, William Cowper, George Borrow and George Crabbe, an essay on the literary associations of East Anglia, an inquiry into Johnson’s ancestry and an account of the private life of the German socialist Ferdinand Lassalle.
Genial, well-informed literary talk by a leading Edwardian editor and Brontë scholar, for admirers of Johnson and Borrow. Download the free EPUB.