Originally published in 1915, the essays in this book deal with 9 English writers as diverse in outlook and temperament as Bunyan and Boswell; poets and Puritans and men who were neither. The book examines each writer in his historical and social context facing problems in art or religion and life in general.
Originally published in 1915, the essays in this book deal with 9 English writers as diverse in outlook and temperament as Bunyan and Boswell; poets and Puritans and men who were neither. The book examines each writer in his historical and social context facing problems in art or religion and life in general.
1. Spenser 2. Milton 3. Evelyn 4. Bunyan 5. Cowper 6. Boswell 7. Crabbe 8. Wordsworth 9. Carlyle