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Original letters of eminent literary men of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries

Original letters of eminent literary men of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries

Ellis, Henry

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Biographies GeneralFiction AnthologiesBritish History

ISBN10: 9353707242
ISBN13: 9789353707248
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.31
Height: 1.05 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Step into the private workshop of English letters, where reputations are forged in ink and friendships fray under pressure. Voices, unvarnished, urgent, and alive. Henry Ellis gathers a historical letters collection that lets you hear the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries speaking in their own accents. This literary correspondence anthology brings together edited primary source letters from leading figures across the 16th to 18th century, illuminating english literary history from the inside out. Here are writers biographies in letters: ambitions, quarrels, patronage, critical judgements, and the day-to-day realities of publishing and literary culture. Read for pleasure and you will find wit, candour, and human texture; read for study and you have a dependable reference for literature students, rich in detail and ready to cite. As a sourcebook for cultural historians, it offers vivid evidence of thought, manners, and networks in tudor and stuart england and beyond, making the era tangible without modern gloss. Long valued among antiquarian letter collections, this volume stands as a cornerstone of british epistolary literature: a record of how authors presented themselves, negotiated power, and helped shape the tradition later readers call the canon. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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