H. J. Jackson notes recollection of friend of Rupert Brooke, of Brooke in a canoe c.1910-11: "'he would keep the paddle going with his left hand, and with the other make pencil notes on Webster, steadying the text against his knee,'"
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rupert Brooke Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British Dramatists" he thought Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" "the best by head and shoulders"; Carlyle's "Heroes and Hero Worship" he admired "exceedingly" (he proceeded to write an essay of twenty-six notepaper pages on Carlyle); of Thackeray's "Henry Esmond" he told Osborne that he thought it a "great book", though he disliked its "overelaboration": "perhaps you may say it is merely an additional grace - but I think it stands rather in the way of true eloquence and geninely forceful tragedy, not that I deny there is both eloquence and tragedy in 'Esmond', but I think there might have been more and grander but for that elaborateness".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book
'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin "The Duchesse of Malfy", which seems a good play.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'and after Dinner down alone by water to Depford, reading "Duchess of Malfy", the play, which is pretty good - and there did some business'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843:
'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi & Vittoria Corombona I have
been re-reading lately with the highest pleasure'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould Print: Book
Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843:
'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi & Vittoria Corombona I have
been re-reading lately with the highest pleasure'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould Print: Book
'To L[eonard]W[oolf], the philistinism of [George Macaulay] Trevelyan and his friends was epitomised by their dislike of the Elizabethan dramatist John Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi was read and admired by the "X" Society.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: The 'X' Society Print: Book
