Table Talk & Recollections: Introduced by Christopher Ricks

Table Talk & Recollections: Introduced by Christopher Ricks

Samuel Rogers
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Author:  Samuel Rogers
Condition:  New
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  160
Publisher:  Notting Hill Editions
Year:  2011
ISBN:  9781907903366

A poet and banker who knew everybody, Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) was a brilliant recorder of things said by his famous and powerful contemporaries, from Edmund Burke to Talleyrand, from Charles James Fox to the Duke of Wellington. He was all ears, very good at hearing what was said, and assiduous about recording it in a kind of laconic shorthand. Originally published in the 1830s, but not edited since then, his energetic, entertaining, and occasionally eye-popping "table-talk" gives phenomenal texture to our understanding of Regency high life. Reading it is like eavesdropping on the past. Introduced by the distinguished literary critic Professor Christopher Ricks.

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