Macaulay

J Cotter Morison

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• Historian, essayist and poet, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) is described by his biographer as possessing a mind that was born wise and nurtured ... Lees meer

Fielding

Austin Dobson

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• At the outset of this book, published in the first 'English Men of Letters' series in 1883, the poet and author Austin Dobson (1840-1921) declares his... Lees meer

Wordsworth

F W H Myers

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• The publication in 1798 of Lyrical Ballads, written by William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is considered to have launched the ... Lees meer

Sheridan

Margaret Wilson Oliphant

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• The Scots novelist Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) published this biography of the playwright and poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) in the first ... Lees meer

Southey

Edward Dowden

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• This 1879 biography of poet and author Robert Southey (1774-1843), friend of Coleridge and Wordsworth, and Poet Laureate, provided a fresh and concise... Lees meer

Gray

Edmund Gosse

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• Thomas Gray (1716-71) was one of the most influential poets of the eighteenth century, and is probably best remembered today for his Elegy Written in ... Lees meer

Dickens

Adolphus William Ward

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• Published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1882, this biography of Charles Dickens (1812-70) provides a short introduction to the life... Lees meer

Sir Philip Sidney

John Addington Symonds

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• Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) was an English poet and courtier who is now seen as one of the most influential English writers of the sixteenth century. ... Lees meer

Spenser

Richard William Church

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• Edmund Spenser (1552-99) has been described as one of the greatest English poets, and is best known for The Faerie Queene, which he composed in celebr... Lees meer

Hawthorne

Henry James

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• This critical essay and biography by Henry James (1843-1916) of his fellow American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64), today best remembered for ... Lees meer

Roberts Burns

John Campbell Shairp

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• Like other works in the first series of English Men of Letters, Shairp's 1879 biography of Robert Burns (1759-96) is a work of both history and litera... Lees meer

Sterne

Henry Duff Traill

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• Lawrence Sterne (1713-69) was an Anglican clergyman best remembered as the author of the satirical and highly influential novel The Life and Opinions ... Lees meer

Locke

Thomas Fowler

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• This biography of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1880. Its author, Thomas Fowle... Lees meer

Thackeray

Anthony Trollope

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• Written by the novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-82), who had been a friend of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63) since 1860, and originally publishe... Lees meer

English Men of Letters 39 Volume Set

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• In the 1870s, the publishing house of Macmillan began to issue a series of books called English Men of Letters - biographies of English writers by oth... Lees meer

Bunyan

James Anthony Froude

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• John Bunyan (1628-88), the Bedfordshire tinker and non-conformist preacher, is best known for writing The Pilgrim's Progress. Published in 1880 in the... Lees meer

Addison

William Courthope

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• W. J. Courthope's biography of politician and writer Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was published in 1884 in the first series of English Men of Letters. E... Lees meer

Daniel Defoe

William Minto

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• Published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1879, a time when a complete edition of Daniel Defoe's works was yet to be collated, this b... Lees meer

Bacon

Richard William Church

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• This introduction to the life and works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1884. The author, ... Lees meer

Alexander Pope

Leslie Stephen

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• Blending history with literary criticism and general reflections with hard facts, this biography from 1880, which places the man in the context of his... Lees meer

Hume

Thomas Henry Huxley

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• What is philosophy about? According to the author of this work (published in the first series of 'English Men of Letters' in 1879) it is fundamentally... Lees meer

Goldsmith

William Black

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• Written by Scottish novelist William Black (1841-98), this biography of the Irish-born poet, dramatist and novelist Oliver Goldsmith (c.1728-74) was p... Lees meer