Selected essays ...
By: by Sir Edmund Gosse.
Series: The Travellers' library.; [no. 73, 81]
Publisher: W. Heinemann
Published: 1928
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.
Table of contents: title: 1st ser. On fluctations of taste.  Walter Pater.  The charm of Sterne.  Wine and Mr. Saintsbury.  Christina Rossetti.  A first sight of Tennyson.  The last of the pagans.  A nun's love letters.  The fairy in the garden.  The Oxford sausage.  Burlesque.  "Orion" Horne.  Edgar Poe and his detractors.  The lyrical poetry of Thomas Hardy.; title: 2d ser.  The carpet and the clock.  A poet in prison.  Wycherley.  A dog with a bad name.  The gallantry of France.  The challenge of the Brontës .  The matchless Orinda.  Lord Cromer as a man of letters.  How to read the Bible.  Cats.  An election at the English Academy.  Mademoisell Aïssé.