The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Men of Literary Genius

"Men of Literary Genius." New York Saturday Press, December 18, 1858, 3.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
commentary
Abstract

The author lists the conversational styles and social habits of famous literary men, including Dante, Samuel Butler, Jonathan Swift, Kirwin, Virgil, Thomas Gray, Hogarth, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Dryden, Robert Southey, Ben Jonson, Joseph Addison, and more.