This collection will hardly appeal to readers with a general or technical or even scientific education, and certainly not to people with little time for reading, but only to those who have majored in English literature. An additional degree in French literature would be an advantage.
Once these
prelimiary requirements fulfilled, you will be able to gain new insights on old masters like…mehrThis collection will hardly appeal to readers with a general or technical or even scientific education, and certainly not to people with little time for reading, but only to those who have majored in English literature. An additional degree in French literature would be an advantage.
Once these prelimiary requirements fulfilled, you will be able to gain new insights on old masters like Shakespeare, of course, and Pope, Blake, Hardy, Dostoievski, Rabelais, Racine, Voltaire, Stendhal, and many of their contemporaries. As you might expect, there are also some vanished glories like Congreve, Collier, Browne, Macauley. But the style is such that you might happily go on reading even here, for the sheer pleasure of this elegant, precise and witty prose.