Trivia (Dodo Press) Logan Pearsall Smith

(Lloyd) Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) was an American essayist and critic, and a notable writer on historical semantics. Logan attended Haverford College and Balliol College, Oxford. He was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, but is now probably most remembered for his autobiography Unforgotten Years (1938). Smith was much influenced by Walter Pater. His followers included Robert Gathorne-Hardy, Desmond MacCarthy, John Russell, R. C. Trevelyan, and Hugh Trevor-Roper. He was, in part, the basis for the character of Nick Greene / Sir Nicholas Greene in Virginia Woolf"s Orlando. His other works include: The Youth of Parnassus, and Other Stories (1895), The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton (2 volumes) (1907), Sonnets (1908), Songs and Sonnets (1909), The English Language (1912), A Treasury of English Prose (editor) (1919), Stories From the Old Testament (1920), More Trivia (1921), English Idioms (1923), Four Words: Romantic, Originality, Creative, Genius (1924), Words and Idioms (1925), The Prospects of Literature (1927), Needed Words (1928), A Treasury of English Aphorisms (edited) (1928), Robert Bridges: Recollections (1931), On Reading Shakespeare (1933), Fine Writing (1936) and Reperusals and Re-Collections (1937). Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Trivia (Dodo Press) (Logan Pearsall Smith)