Leo Damrosch. Yale Univ., $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-300-20067-6
Damrosch (Jonathan Swift) extends “an invitation to understanding and enjoyment” of poet William Blake (1757–1827) by bringing to life the inner logic and “imaginative reality” that governs his body of work. This exemplary study begins with a primer
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Leo Damrosch. Yale Univ, $35 (568p) ISBN 978-0-300-16499-2
In his latest, Harvard literature professor and veteran biographer Damrosch (Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius) recounts the life of satirist Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels. The outlines of Swift’s life are more or less familiar....
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Leo Damrosch. Yale Univ., $30 (488p) ISBN 978-0-300-21790-2
This look at Samuel Johnson, his biographer James Boswell, and their social circle delightfully captures the bonds of friendship and competition which joined some of the late 18th century’s greatest minds. The titular club, which began meeting...
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Leo Damrosch. Yale Univ., $35 (432p) ISBN 978-0-300-24828-9
Harvard literature professor Damrosch (The Club) takes an evenhanded look at 18th-century Italian libertine Giacomo Casanova in this scrupulous biography. Drawing largely from Casanova’s embellished autobiography, Histoire de Ma Vie, Damrosch...
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Leo Damrosch. Yale Univ, $35 (584p) ISBN 978-0-300-26862-1
Biographer and Harvard literature professor Damrosch follows up Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World with a comprehensive portrait of Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). Drawing on more than 3,000 of Stevenson’s letters and his...
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