Essays biographical and critical: chiefly on English poets.
Title:
Essays biographical and critical: chiefly on English poets.
Author:
Masson, David, 1822-1907.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge : Macmillan, 1856.
Physical Description:
viii, 475 pages 23 cm
General Note:
The first five essays were later issued in the author's volume: The three devils ...
Language:
English
Contents:
Shakespeare and Goethe.--Milton's youth.--The three devils: Luther's Milton's, and Goethe's.--Dryden, and the literature of the Restoration.--Dean Swift.--Chatterton: a story of the year 1770.--Wordsworth.--Scottish influence in British literature.--Theories of poetry.--Prose and verse: De Quincey.
Format :
Book