Biographical and critical miscellanies
By: by William H. Prescott.
Series: Édition de luxe of the complete works of William H. Prescott -- v. 9.
Publisher: Lippincott
Published: 1875
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 682
Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism; Authors
Notes: All of the essays except the first were originally contributed to the North American review.
Table of contents: title: Charles Brockden Brown, the American novelist; title: Asylum for the blind; title: Irving's Conquest of Granada; title: Cervantes; title: Sir Walter Scott; title: Chateaubriand's English literature; title: Bancroft's United States; title: Madame Calderon's Life in Mexico; title: Molière; title: Italian narrative poetry; title: Poetry and romance of the Italians; title: Scottish song; title: Da Ponte's observations; title: Ticknor's History of Spanish literature.