Studies of a biographer
By: by Leslie Stephen
Publisher: Smith, Elder
Published: 1907
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English Authors; Biography; English literature; History and criticism
Notes: Access to portions of this material may be restricted.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. National biography. The evolution of editors. John Byrom. Johnsoniana. Gibbon's autobiography. Arthur Young. Wordsworth's youth.; title: v. 2. The story of Scott's ruin. The importation of German. Matthew Arnold. Jowett's life. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Life of Tennyson. Pascal.; title: v. 3. The Browning letters. John Donne. John Ruskin. William Godwin's novels. Walter Bagehot. Thomas Henry Huxley. James Anthony Froude. In praise of walking.; title: v. 4. Shakespeare as a man. Southey's letters. New lights on Milton. Emerson. Anthony Trollope. Robert Louis Stevenson. The cosmopolitan spirit in literature.