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 about English history and literature: essays include “Edwards’s Canons of Criticism, ” “An Eighteenth-Century Hippocrates, ” “‘Hermes’ Harris, ” “The Journeys of John Howard, ” “The Learned Mrs. Carter, ” “The Abbé Edgeworth, ” and “A Casual Causerie.”
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Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), known as Austin Dobson, was a distinguished English poet and essayist. He published his first collection of poems, Vignettes in Rhyme, in 1873. In addition to poetry, he wrote a number of biographies, including studies of Henry Fielding, Richard Steele, Fanny Burney, Oliver Goldsmith, and Horace Walpole.
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