Opening with a preface on how literary reputations rise and fall, Edmund Gosse ranges across three centuries of writers: Sir Walter Raleigh, the songs of Shakespeare, the forgotten dramatist Catharine Trotter, the charm of Sterne, Poe at his centenary, Bulwer-Lytton, the Brontës and Disraeli’s novels, with personal portraits of people he had known.
Urbane, gossipy criticism from the author of Father and Son, made for readers who enjoy literary history told by an insider. Download the free EPUB.