Letters to His Son (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip DormerStanhope, Lord Chesterfield
- First Published: 1774
- Type of Work: Epistolary
- Genres: Short fiction, Epistolary literature
- Subjects: Values, Parents and children, Education or educators, England or English people, Fathers, Eighteenth century, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Nobility
Critical Evaluation:
On the periphery of literature exists a valuable and fascinating genre, the personal letter. This, like the private diary, reveals an individual and an age far more intimately than any other form of writing. Probably no era practiced the epistolary art more widely than the eighteenth century and no man more skillfully than the fourth earl of Chesterfield. Although the earl had served his country unimpeachably as a member of Parliament, lord lieutenant of Ireland, and ambassador to Holland, and although his name came to designate an overcoat and a couch, it...
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