Amory, Thomas - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Criticism
Auty, Susan. "Perpetual Mirth." In The Comic Spirit of Eighteenth-Century Novels, pp. 180-83. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1975.
Comments on the reasons for the popularity of The Life of John Buncle during the Romantic period in nineteenth-century literature.
Mulvihill, James. "Amory's John Buncle and Wordsworth's Excursion." Notes and Queries, Vol. 235, No. 1, n.s. vol 37, March, 1990, pp. 25-6.
Suggests that the character of the recluse Dorick Watson encountered by Buncle in his travels may have served as the literary source for "the figure of the Solitary" in Wordsworth's poem.
Additional coverage of Amory's life and career is contained in the following source published by The Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 39.
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