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Edmund Gosse. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
Table of Contents
PREFACE:
ON FLUCTUATIONS OF TASTE
THE SONGS OF SHAKESPEARE
CATHARINE TROTTER,
THE PRECURSOR OF THE BLUESTOCKINGS
TWO PIONEERS OF ROMANTICISM:
JOSEPH AND THOMAS WARTON[4]
THE CHARM OF STERNE[5]
THE CENTENARY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
THE AUTHOR OF "PELHAM"
THE CHALLENGE OF THE BRONTËS[7]
THE NOVELS OF BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I
II
III
THREE EXPERIMENTS IN PORTRAITURE
I. LADY DOROTHY NEVILL
II. LORD CROMER AS A MAN OF LETTERS
III. THE LAST DAYS OF LORD REDESDALE
THE LYRICAL POETRY OF THOMAS HARDY
SOME SOLDIER POETS
THE DEAD FOX HUNTER
THE FUTURE OF ENGLISH POETRY[8]
THE AGONY OF THE VICTORIAN AGE
INDEX
FOOTNOTES:
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Edmund Gosse
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Then came the disgraceful scene of his cross-examination at Westminster, and the condemnation by his venal judges at the order of a paltry king. It became known, or shrewdly guessed, that Spain had sent to James I. a hectoring alternative that Raleigh must be executed in London or sent alive for a like purpose to Madrid. The trial was a cowardly and ignominious submission of the English Government to the insolence of England's hereditary enemy. Raleigh seemed for the moment to have failed completely, yet it was really like the act of Samson, who slew more men at his death than in all his life. Samuel Pepys, who had some fine intuitions at a time when the national moral was very low, spoke of Raleigh as being "given over, as a sacrifice," to our enemies. This has been, in truth, the secret of his unfailing romantic popularity, and it is the reason of the emotion which has called us together here three hundred years after his death upon the scaffold.
