Hours in a Library, Volume 3 / New Edition, with Additions

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A series of essays offers close readings of nineteenth- and eighteenth-century writers and literary topics, treating figures such as Charlotte Brontë, Charles Kingsley, Godwin and Shelley, Gray, Sterne, George Eliot, and Coleridge alongside pieces on country books, autobiography, Carlyle's ethics, and notable state trials. The writer reflects on methods of criticism, advocating a measured, quasi-scientific approach while distinguishing poetic genius from analytic intellect, and explores how intensity, philosophical breadth, and personal temperament shape literary power and public reception. Each essay combines biographical context, thematic analysis, and judgments on artistic scope and influence.

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[11] A lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 9th March, 1888. It seems desirable to say that some of the statements in the Lecture rest upon an examination of original documents, many of which have not hitherto been accessible to biographers. I owe my acquaintance with them chiefly to Mr. Dykes Campbell, whose knowledge of the subject is most minute and exhaustive. A complete biography still remains to be written; it may be expected from Mr. Ernest Coleridge, who is in possession of a great mass of his grandfather's papers.

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