Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence: Volume 1 - Brossura

Robinson, Henry Crabb

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1108024882 ISBN 13: 9781108024884

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Riassunto

Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) was a lawyer, journalist and indefatigable diarist, who was acquainted with almost all the important figures in English and European cultural circles. His surviving writings amount to almost one hundred volumes, from which this selection was compiled in 1869. He studied at Jena where he became acquainted with Goethe and Schiller, and became foreign editor for The Times, despatching eyewitness reports on the Battle of Corunna. He travelled to Switzerland and Italy with Wordsworth, and his reminiscences of William Blake are an important source of information on that visionary. He attended Coleridge's public lectures, recording not only the content but anecdotes about the audiences. Other activities included helping found the Athenaeum Club and University College, London. The combination of anecdote and critical appraisal of the notables about whom he writes makes the diaries a valuable source for the culture of the nineteenth century.

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Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) was a lawyer and journalist who was acquainted with all the significant literary and cultural figures of his day. His lifelong habit of keeping diaries, letters and memoirs, from which this 1869 compilation derives, provides a major source of biographical information about his friends.

Contenuti:

Preface; 1. 1789. Family and childhood; 2. 1790–5. Articled clerk at Colchester; 3. 1795. Interval at Bury; 4. 1796–9. Unsettled life in London - correspondence with Robert Hall; 5-9. 1800–5. In Germany; 10. 1805–6. In London - acquaintance with Mrs. Barbauld, and C. and M. Lamb; 11. 1807. In Holstein, as Times correspondent; 12. 1807–9. In London, as foreign editor of the Times - acquaintance with Wordsworth - at Corunna, as Times correspondent; 13. 1810. In London - acquaintance with Coleridge and Flaxman; 14. 1811. In London - debating societies - Coleridge's lectures - Southey - resolution to study for the Bar; 15. 1812. In London - studies for the Bar - lectures by Coleridge and Hazlitt; 16. 1813. Acquaintance with Talfourd - Madame de Staël in London - circuit - takes chambers; 17. 1814. European politics - practice at the Bar - tour in France - La Fayette - French courts of justice - Madame de Staël - Benjamin Constant - Schlegel - 'The Excursion'; 18. 'The Excursion' - Buonaparte's escape from Elba - death of H. C. R.'s father - tour in Belgium and Holland - visit to Waterloo - progress at the Bar.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1108024882
• ISBN 13: 9781108024884
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 542