The Essays of Max Beerbohm (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Max Beerbohm
- First Published: 1896
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Art or artists, England or English people, Criticism, Pictures, Drama or dramatists, Dramatic criticism, Drawing
Critical Evaluation:
Max Beerbohm was a caricaturist, a writer of informal essays, and a drama critic for twenty years. His manner was always elegant, delicate, and grave, and he wore an air of perpetual melancholy. It was said of him that as a very young man he had mastered the secret of perpetual old age. Partly his melancholy stemmed from his deep admiration of the past. He looked wistfully backward to Victorian London and deplored changes of any sort. He began to draw at an early age and drew sharp, witty caricatures that both amused and angered his subjects. Often he...
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