Studies of a biographer.
Series: Burt Franklin research & source works series; 766.; Selected essays and texts in literature and criticism; 201
Publisher: B. Franklin
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Authors, English -- Biography.; English literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Reprint of the 1899-1902 ed. published by G. P. Putnam, New York, with a new introd. by Anthony Bradley.
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.