Letters of Edward Dowden and His Correspondents (Classic Reprint)
Letters of Edward Dowden and His Correspondents (Classic Reprint)

Author: Edward Dowden

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780483306905

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Excerpt from Letters of Edward Dowden and His Correspondents The truth contained in the saying, A critic is one who has failed in art, needs to be more explicitly stated. A critic is often one whose power of conception exceeds his power of execution, but who is left with enough of the latter not merely to make him endlesslv curious as to how the thing is done, but to give him a special insight into the processes of its accomplishment. When in addition to this technical equipment he is endowed with a special instinct for getting at the truth of things, he is an ideal critic. Edward Dowden lived in an age of criticism, and many wrote in a more brilliant and personal style than he, but it may be doubted if any critic of his time in these islands surpassed or even equalled him in the power of getting at the structural idea in any imaginative work considered by him. He astonished the author of Sordello when, a young man barely out of his teens, he applied this faculty of his to its interpretation; and all through life, in his enormous and incessant reading, he laid up for himself a continual increment of skill and wisdom by its exercise. Yet although at the age of twenty four he was already the well-known Professor Dowden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Letters About Shelley
Letters About Shelley

Author: R. S. Garnett

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781331384434

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Excerpt from Letters About Shelley: Interchanged by Three Friends Edward Dowden, Richard Garnett, and Michael This long series of letters - the first is dated 1869 and the last 1906 - between three distinguished men of letters is brought together by the co-operation of Mr W. M. Rossetti, Mrs Dowden, and the Editor, the eldest son of the third correspondent. The main object of Win. Michael Rossetti, Edward Dowden, and Richard Garnett was the interchange of information and ideas respecting the poet Shelley. It is a delightful picture that their letters give of these busy men finding rest and refreshment in work as arduous as that by which they gained their bread, and chatting with each other over subjects that when unillumined by the glow of enthusiasm might have become arid as dust. The brotherhood of letters and scholarship has rarely been more pleasantly shown. We see Mr Rossetti taking up his pen to announce to Garnett, the "turning up of a great Shelley curiosity for which the Shelley family and the British Museum ought to outbid one another"; we see him threatening to prove "stolid and obstinate respecting my biographic point of view in my Memoir of Shelley"; reporting a conversation of hours with Trelawny" when he handed me the original MSS. of Shelley's poems to Mrs Williams with scraps of messages thereon and exhibited a Shelleyan enthusiasm which was most refreshing." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edward Dowden Letter
Edward Dowden Letter

Author: Edward Dowden

Publisher:

Published: 1871

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Letter to the Editor, telling him that he is enclosing an article called "France & Prussia" on the chance of it suiting the Contemporary Review.

Private Letters of Edward Gibbon
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon

Author: Edward Gibbon

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780428826710

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Excerpt from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon: 1753 1794 Judith Porten, the mother of Edward Gibbon, was the third and young est daughter of Mr. James Porten, a merchant of London. She died in December, 1747, leaving the maternal care of her son to her sister, Miss Catherine Porten, the Aunt Kitty of the later correspondence, to whom this letter is addressed. After her father's commercial ruin, Miss Catherine Porten opened a boarding-house for Westminster School, in College Street. Under her care Gibbon spent the two years which he passed at Westminster. He entered the school in January, 1748, and was placed in the second form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.