Between projects, the distinguished English poet dipped into his notebooks in 1917 to offer this “commonplace book of a journeyman of letters.” Includes “Literature and Life, ” “True Learning, ” “Catholicity in Taste, ” “His Greek Models, ” “An Aphorism for Critics, ” “Petty Criticism, ” “Johnson on Criticism, ” “The Author’s Responsibility, ” “Genius and Mediocrity, ” “The Perils of Irony, ” and many more.
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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.