A LETTER BOOK A LETTER BOOK SELECTED WITH AN INTRODUCTION ON THE HISTORY AND ART OF LETTER-WRITING BY

GEORGE SAINTSBURY

PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION THE HISTORY AND ART OF LETTER WRITING

I ANCIENT HISTORY

II LETTERS IN ENGLISH BEFORE 1700

III THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY the eighteenth century

IV NINETEENTH CENTURY LETTERS. EARLY early nineteenth century groups

V NINETEENTH CENTURY LETTERS. LATER a nineteenth century group

VI SOME SPECIAL KINDS OF LETTER

VII CONCLUSION

APPENDIX TO INTRODUCTION I GREEK LETTERS. SYNESIUS ( c. 375-430)

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)

THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849)

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)

EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883)

FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE (1809-1893)

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811-1863)

CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870)

CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819-1875)

JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900)

ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR STEVENSON (1850-1894)

A Survey of Eighteenth Century Literature as a Place of Rest and Refreshment

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