Diary, reminiscences, and correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson
By: selected and edited by Thomas Sadler
Contributors: Sadler, Thomas, 1822-1891, ed
Publisher: Fields, Osgood
Published: 1869
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; Authors
Description: Robinson, one of the great diarists, was a friend of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlett, and later Carlyle; and a great admirer of German writers, Goethe in particular (cf. Ox. Comp.). His diary and letters give a "truthful and unrivalled picture of social and literary life and literary men, both in this country and on the continent, during the first half of this [19th] century