Author: Alexander Meyrick BroadleyPublisher: New York : F.A. Stokes Company
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Chats on Autographs
Author: Alexander Meyrick BroadleyPublisher: New York : F.A. Stokes Company
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
English Book Collectors
Author: William Younger FletcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Twenty Years of My Life
Author: Douglas Brooke Wheelton SladenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers
Author: Samuel RogersThe Farington Diary
Author: Joseph FaringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Anecdotes
Author: The Reminiscences of Alexander Dyce
Author: Alexander DycePublisher:
ISBN: 9780814253519
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Alexander Dyce was extraordinarily gregarious, and it can be said that he crossed paths with nearly everyone of consequence in England during the first half of the nineteenth century. Any list of his friends and acquaintances that consisted of only the most famous among them would include Wordsworth, Southey, Campbell, Leigh Hunt, and the luminaries of the Rogers Circle, along with many others. Dyce wrote about all of them in his reminiscences, at which he was apparently still working when he died in May of 1869, and which are published here for the first time. He wrote, too, of the great of the theater, which was the passion of his life. He was the first modern editor of the drama of George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster, and the first to edit competently Christopher Marlowe and the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher. His edition of Shakespeare was one of the nineteenth century's best, and he missed few of the major theatrical events of his time. His records of plays and performances, actors and writers, scholars and critics, are all marked by scrupulous attention to significant and telling detail. Though he sometimes reports anecdotes that have become familiar from other sources, he focuses on his personal reactions to the persons he met, the spectacles he viewed, and the parties he attended, thereby bringing to history the immediacy of personal encounter. Dyce's reminiscences are, then, a rich mine of important information on his times and those who lived them. They are, in addition-and no less importantly-a thoroughly entertaining account of a fascinating age, rendered by a man of humane wit, rare insight, and remarkable taste and sensitivity. Richard J. Schrader is assistant professor of English at Princeton University.
Ruskin and His Circle
Author: Ada EarlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Dumouriez and the Defence of England Against Napoleon
Author: John Holland RosePublisher: London, Lane
ISBN:
Category : DUMOURIEZ, CHARLES FRANCOIS DUPERIER,1739-1823
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Author: Joseph Conrad