Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence by Henry Crabb Robinson

Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence by Henry Crabb Robinson

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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.

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Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence by Henry Crabb Robinson

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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ISBN 13 9781108024884
ISBN 10 1108024882
Titel Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence
Autor Henry Crabb Robinson
Serie Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2011-01-06
Seitenanzahl 542
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