The Genius of Henry Fielding with Selections from His Works
Contributors: Henry H. Harper (Introduction)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: April 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781417905782
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: WHILE most modem readers are more or less acquainted with the genius of Henry Fielding, there are some who perhaps imagine that style and invention in novel-writing have so much improved in the past hundred and sixty-odd years, since Fielding's death, that to read his works in this advanced age would be equivalent to going back and reviewing our school primers.