The Man of Feeling (The Norton Library) - Couverture souple

MacKenzie, Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393002144 ISBN 13 : 9780393002140

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 1958

Synopsis

Book by MacKenzie Henry

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Henht Mackenzie, the boh of mi Edinburgh physician, was bom in A ugust, 1745. After education in the University of Edinburgh he went to London in 1765, at the age of twenty, for law studies, returned to Edinburgh, and became Orown Attorney in the Scottish Court of Exchequer, When Mackenzie was in London, Sterne s Trie tram Shandy was in course of puhlioation. The first two volumes had appeared in 1759, and the ith appeared in 1767, followed in 1768, the year 6f Sterne sdeath, by The Sentimental Journey. Young Mackenzie had a strong bent towards literature, and while studying law in London, he read Sterne, and falling in with the tone of sentiment which Sterne himself caught from the spirit of the time and the example of Kousseau, he wrote The Man ofF
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Biographie de l'auteur

Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831) was a Scottish novelist and miscellaneous writer. He was also known by the sobriquet "Addison of the North." Mackenzie was an ardent Tory, and wrote many tracts intended to counteract the doctrines of the French Revolution. Most of these remained anonymous, but he acknowledged his Review of the Principal Proceedings of the Parliament of 1784, a defence of the policy of William Pitt, written at the desire of Henry Dundas. He was rewarded (1804) by the office of comptroller of the taxes for Scotland. In 1776 Mackenzie married Penuel, daughter of Sir Ludovich Grant of Grant. They had eleven children. He was, in his later years, a notable figure in Edinburgh society. He was nicknamed the "man of feeling," but he was in reality a hard-headed man of affairs with a kindly heart. Some of his literary reminiscences were embodied in his Account of the Life and Writings of John Home, Esq. (1822). He also wrote a Life of Doctor Blacklock, prefixed to the 1793 edition of the poet's works.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 1958
• ISBN 10: 0393002144
• ISBN 13: 9780393002140
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 114