Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment.A Critic in Pall Mall by Oscar Wilde.-The tomb of Keats - Keats's Sonnet on blue - Dinners and dishes - Shakespeare on scenery - 'Henry the Fourth' at Oxford - A handbook to marriage - To read or not to read - The letters of a great woman - Béranger in England - The poetry of the people - 'The Cenci' - Balzac in English - Ben Jonson - Mr. Symonds' history of the Renaissance - Mr. Morris's' Odyssey '- Russian novelists - Mr. Pater's 'Imaginary portraits' - A German princess - 'A village tragedy' - Mr. Morris's completion of the 'Odyssey' - Mrs. Somerville - Aristotle at afternoon tea - Early Christian art in Ireland - Madame Ristori - English poetesses - Venus or Victory - M. Caro on George Sand - A fascinating book - Henley's poems - Some literary ladies - Poetry and prison - The gospel according to Walt Whitman - - Irish fairy tales - Mr. WB Yeats - Mr. Yeats's' Wanderings of Oisin '- Mr. William Morris's last book