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Some Diversions of a Man of Letters

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By Edmund Gosse
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A series of short critical essays and character portraits that examine changing literary taste, offer close readings of poems and novels, and sketch public figures. The pieces range from a meditation on fluctuations of taste to assessments of Shakespearean songs, Sterne, Edgar Allan Poe, the Brontës, Disraeli, and Thomas Hardy, alongside essays on precursors, soldier-poets, and three concentrated portraits of notable personalities. Combining personal anecdote, historical perspective, and formal analysis, the collection traces continuities and reversals in English and continental literary life while reflecting on poetry's future and the strains of the Victorian age.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Address delivered at the Mansion House, October 29th, 1918, on occasion of the Tercentenary of Sir Walter Raleigh's death.

[2] Around the story of Agnes de Castro there gathered a whole literature of fiction, which Mr. Montague Summers has investigated in his Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. V. pp. 211-212.

[3] Printed in Otto Klopp's Correspondance de Leibnitz avec l'Electrice Sophie. Hanover, 1875.

[4] Delivered, as the Warton Lecture, before the British Academy, October 27th, 1915.

[5] Address delivered to the Authors' Club, November 24th, 1913

[6] A shocking false quantity; but how little that would matter to Poe

[7] Address delivered before the Brontë Society in the Town Hall of Dewsbury, March 28th, 1903.

[8] Address delivered before the English Association, May 30, 1913.