A Letter Book. Saintsbury George

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066222895

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       INTRODUCTION

       THE HISTORY AND ART OF LETTER WRITING

       I

       ANCIENT HISTORY

       II

       LETTERS IN ENGLISH—BEFORE 1700

       III

       THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

       IV

       NINETEENTH CENTURY LETTERS. EARLY

       V

       NINETEENTH CENTURY LETTERS. LATER

       VI

       SOME SPECIAL KINDS OF LETTER

       VII

       CONCLUSION

       APPENDIX TO INTRODUCTION

       I

       GREEK LETTERS.—SYNESIUS (c. 375-430)

       LATIN LETTERS.—PLINY (62-114)

       LETTER OF THE "DARK" AGES

       SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS (431?-482-4)

       EARLY MEDIAEVAL LETTER (Twelfth Century)

       ENGLISH LETTERS

       THE PASTONS. Fifteenth Century

       ROGER ASCHAM (1515-1568)

       LADY MARY SIDNEY (? [81] -1586)

       GEORGE CLIFFORD EARL OF CUMBERLAND (1558-1605)

       JOHN DONNE (1573-1631)

       JAMES HOWELL (1593-1666)

       JOHN EVELYN (1620-1706)

       DOROTHY OSBORNE (1627-1695)

       JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)

       LADY MARY WORTLEY-MONTAGU (1689-1762)

       PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD (1694-1773)

       GEORGE BALLARD (1706-1755)

       THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)

       HORACE WALPOLE (1717-1797)

       [AND W. M. THACKERAY].

       TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT (1721-1771)

       WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)

       SYDNEY SMITH (1771-1845)

       SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832)

       SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)

       ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843)

       CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834)

       GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)

       PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)

       JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)

       THE CARLYLES—THOMAS (1795-1881) and JANE WELSH (1801-1866)

       THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY (1800-1859)