THE FAMILIAR LETTER IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. EDITED BY HOWARD ANDERSON, PHILIP B. DAGHLIAN AND IRVIN EHRENPREIS

by Howard Anderson

With the growth of efficient postal service in England and the stimulus of a growing tradition of informal prose among eighteenth-century men of leisure, the intimate letter reached unprecedented literary heights as the exemplary form of the period. Considered here are the striking and diverse qualities both of the art and the personalities of the great Swift, Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Richardson, the Earl of Chesterfield, Johnson, Sterne, Gray, Walpole, Burke, Cowper, Gibbon, and Boswell.

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First published May 28, 1968