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Aspects and Impressions

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By Edmund Gosse
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A collection of essays and lectures offering criticism and personal recollections of leading literary and cultural figures. Individual pieces combine close readings and biographical sketching with historical studies of institutions and movements, treating topics from poetic technique and classical reaction to the social life of literary salons. The tone shifts between analytical commentary and anecdotal memoir, often drawing on the author's direct encounters and visits. Across the volume the essays balance scholarly attention to texts with vivid impressions of writers, critics, and the cultural contexts that shaped their work.





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FOOTNOTES:

[1] I leave these airy words of prophecy as they stood in 1912 before the cataclysm! (1922.)

[2] Much fresh light on his career was thrown by M. Émile Magne in his Joyeuse Jeunesse de Tallemant des Réaux, 1921.

[3] Delivered before the University of Oxford as the Taylorian Lecture for 1920.

[4] Since this was written the Academic Committee has lost Henry James, Lady Ritchie and Austin Dobson.

[5] By far the best account of Rousseau's visit to England is contained in Le Séjour de J. J. Rousseau en Angleterre (1766-1767), published from original documents by M. Louis J. Courtois (A. Jullian, Genève, 1911).

[6] The writer, as I am courteously informed by the present editor of the Quarterly Review, was James Pillans (1778-1864), the Scottish educational reformer, the "paltry Pillans" of Byron's satire in English Bards and Scottish Reviewers.

[7] A very interesting account of the events which led to the fall of M. Clemenceau is given in the autobiography of the late Mr. Hyndman, who had the advantage of enjoying M. Clemenceau's friendship from an early date. He considers that the French statesman might have faced the storm with success if he would but have consented to make terms with the Socialists. But he would not do so: he replied to Mr. Hyndman—"It is as useless to base any practical policy upon Socialist principles as it is chimerical to repose any confidence in Socialist votes." When Mr. Hyndman urged that this attitude of hostility to all parties might lose him his seat in the Var, Clemenceau "laughed at the very idea of such a defeat." Nor has the conflict between him and the revolutionary Socialists ever ceased.