A patrin is the trail of leaves a Gypsy leaves for those who follow, and Louise Imogen Guiney’s 1897 essays mark a similar path through her reading and fancies. She writes on the rabid versus the harmless scholar, the delights of an incognito, a puppy’s portrait, dying as a dramatic situation and the ungentle reader, then adds an inquiry into the wit of Charles II.
Allusive, learned and playful essays from a Boston poet in the tradition of Lamb. Download the free EPUB.