Views and Reviews

About this eBook

Author

Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903

Title

Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature

Credits

Transcribed from the 1892 David Nutt edition by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English literature -- History and criticism

Category

Text

eBook-No.

22280

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22280

Release Date

August 8, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.VIEWS AND REVIEWS
2. 2.PREFATORY
3. 3.DICKENS — A ‘Frightful Minus’ — His Method. — His Development. — His Results. — Ave atque Vale.
4. 4.THACKERAY — His Worshippers. — His Critics. — Which is Right? — His Style. — His Mission.
5. 5.DISRAELI — His Novels. — A Contrast. — His Backgrounds. — His Men and Women. — His Style. — His Oratory. — His Speeches as Literature. — The Great Earl.
6. 6.ALEXANDRE DUMAS — His Components. — Himself. — At Least. — His Monument.
7. 7.GEORGE MEREDITH — His Qualities. — His Defects. — Another Way. — Rhoda Fleming. — The Tragic Comedians. — The Egoist. — In Metre. — The Fashion of Art.
8. 8.BYRON — Byron and the World. — Byron and Wordsworth.
9. 9.HUGO — His Critics. — Some Causes and Effects. — Environment. — Equipment and Achievement. — His Diary. — For and Against. — What Lives of Him.
10. 10.HEINE — The Villainy Translation. — The Proof of It.
11. 11.MATTHEW ARNOLD — His Verse. — His Failure. — His Triumphs. — His Prose.
12. 12.HOMER AND THEOCRITUS — The Odyssey. — The Idylls. — Old Lamps and New.
13. 13.RABELAIS — His Essence. — His Secret.
14. 14.SHAKESPEARE — A Parallel.
15. 15.SIDNEY — His Expression of Life. — His Fame.
16. 16.TOURNEUR — His Style. — His Matter.
17. 17.WALTON — The Compleat Angler. — Master Piscator.
18. 18.HERRICK — His Muse. — His Moral. — His Piety.
19. 19.LOCKER — His Qualities. — His Effect.
20. 20.BANVILLE — His Nature. — His Art.
21. 21.DOBSON — Method and Effect.
22. 22.BERLIOZ — The Critic. — A Prototype. — His Theory of Autobiography.
23. 23.GEORGE ELIOT — The Ideal. — The Real. — Appreciations.
24. 24.BORROW — His Vocation. — Ideals and Achievements. — Himself.
25. 25.BALZAC — Under which King? — The Fact.
26. 26.LABICHE — Teniers or Daumier? — Labiche.
27. 27.CHAMPFLEURY — The Man. — The Writer.
28. 28.LONGFELLOW — Sea Poets. — Longfellow.
29. 29.TENNYSON — St. Agnes’ Eve. — Indian Summer. — His Mastership.
30. 30.GORDON HAKE — Aim and Equipment.
31. 31.LANDOR — Anti-Landor. — His Drama.
32. 32.HOOD — How Much of Him? — Death’s Jest-Book. — His Immortal Part.
33. 33.LEVER — How He Lived. — What He Was. — How He Wrote.
34. 34.JEFFERIES — His Virtue. — His Limitation. — The General. — Last Words.
35. 35.GAY — The Fabulist. — The Moralist. — After All.
36. 36.ESSAYS AND ESSAYISTS — The Good of Them. — Generalities. — In Particular.
37. 37.BOSWELL — His Destiny. — His Critic. — Himself.
38. 38.CONGREVE — His Biographers and Critics. — The Real Congreve. — The Dramatist. — The Writer.
39. 39.ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS — Its Romance. — Its Comedy. — Sacer Vates.
40. 40.RICHARDSON — His Fortune. — Pamela. — Grandison. — Clarissa.
41. 41.TOLSTOÏ — The Man and the Artist. — Ivan Iliitch. — War and Peace.
42. 42.FIELDING — Illusions. — Facts. — The Worst of It.

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