Austin Dobson: 25 books

3 works of Henry Austin Dobson English poet and essayist (1840-1921) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Henry Austin Dobson. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Collected Poems – Volume II. De Libris Prose and Verse Fielding

Henry Austin Dobson (18 January 1840 – 2 September 1921), commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist. He was born at Plymouth, the eldest son of George Clarisse Dobson, a civil engineer, of French descent. When he was about eight, the family moved to Holyhead, and his first school...

Henry Austin Dobson (18 January 1840 – 2 September 1921), commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist.

Henry Austin Dobson, commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist. His official career was uneventful, but as a poet and biographer he was distinguished. Those who study his work are struck by its maturity. It was about 1864 that he turned his attention to writing original prose and verse, and some of his earliest work was his best.

De Libris - Prose and Verse Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and essayist (1840-1921) This ebook presents «De Libris - Prose and Verse», from Henry Austin Dobson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02-...

Collected Poems - Volume II Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and essayist (1840-1921) This ebook presents «Collected Poems - Volume II», from Henry Austin Dobson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About...

A Rondeau and Other Poems Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and essayist (1840-1921) This ebook presents «A Rondeau and Other Poems», from Henry Austin Dobson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this...

Fielding Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and essayist (1840-1921) This ebook presents «Fielding», from Henry Austin Dobson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- PREFATORY NOTE -03- EARLY YEARS FIRST...

From Austin Dobson, the illustrious poet and essayist, comes this collection of charming essays and poems that pay homage to books, authors, illustrators (including Kate Greenaway), printers and printing, Milton, Thackeray, and other book-related topics. These pieces capture Dobson’s deep love of literature.

Collected here are seven engaging essays by Austin Dobson, the highly esteemed English writer and poet. Austin was notable for his wide-ranging interests, and this collection of portraits of eighteenth-century figures reflects his expansive studies, making the volume ideal reading for anyone passionate...

This 1890 biography of the English historian, politician, man of letters, and author of the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), is written in a light and anecdotal style—yet with sound literary judgment.  "Walpole has an almost perfect memoirist in Mr. Dobson," was the verdict of the New York Times.

In this collection of Dobson’s essays, the subjects range from the romantic and classical to the academic and humanitarian. Among other delights, the reader will walk with Warburton, Fielding, Pope, and Pitt on the grounds of the renowned Prior Park. Excitingly, the chapter on Fielding includes letters never before published.

This 1897 edition of Dobson's 1874 work was revised and extended by Griffin. It was originally intended to assist candidates in preparation for civil service examinations but under Griffin the volume took on a more general cast.  As he wrote in his introduction, "it is simply designed to give a concise...

At the Foundling Hospital is a magnificent full-length of Coram, with curling white locks and kindly, weather-beaten face, from the brush of his friend and admirer, William Hogarth. It is to Hogarth and his fellow-Governor at the Foundling, John Wilkes, that my next jotting relates. These strange...