Literary recreations, or, Essays, criticisms and poems
Subtitle: chiefly written in India
By: by David Lester Richardson
Publisher: W. Thacker and Co.
Published: 1852
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 712
Subjects: English literature; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism
Notes: Some of these articles appeared originally (1836) in the author's Literary leaves. Cf. Pref.

"Thomas Carlyle": p. 400-411.

Apparently cut from some periodical and bound with a new title-page. Several of the articles relate to Shakespeare.

Boston Public Library copy has these sections of the book: Shakepeare's Sonets (pages 201-232) -- Supposed new discovery of the scheme or ground-idea of each and all of Shakespeare's drams (pages 261-270) -- Drummond's poems (pages 427-436) -- On strong writing (pages 601-628).