Two Quiet Lives - Dorothy Osborne and Thomas Gray (Paperback, Main)

The two quiet lives are Dorothy Osborne, writer of the famous love letters to William Temple, and Thomas Gray, poet, Cambridge don and friend of Horace Walpole. They lived a century apart, but as David Cecil shows, were temperamentally akin. Both were reserved, introspective and prone to melancholy: both appeared awkward and difficult save to the few to whom they opened their hearts: both commanded a fund of humour and imagination and possessed an instinctive feeling for style: and both enjoyed an inner life which was vivid, strong and exciting. David Cecil's subtle and sympathetic study of two remarkable natures is a sustained piece of exquisite scholarship which reads as engagingly now as it did when first published in 1948.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2009
Authors:	David Cecil
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	214
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-25142-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Biography > Literary
LSN:	0-571-25142-0
Barcode:	9780571251421

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