Henry Crabb Robinson in Germany

A Study in Nineteenth-century Life Writing

• Author(s): Eugene L. Stelzig,
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Pages: 137
• ISBN_10: 0838757634
  ISBN_13: 9780838757635
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Authorship , Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Nonfiction (incl. Memoirs) , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / European / German , Travel / Special Interest / Literary ,

Description:... Although Robinson is mostly remembered for having cultivated the acquaintance of many of the leading writers of his time in Germany and England, when he died he left behind what may well be the most extensive life writing collection by a nineteenth-century English individual. The most ample selection from the manuscript collection is still Thomas Sadler's Diaries, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson (1869). His biographer Edith Morley has also published several collections, including an important selection of his letters from Germany (1929), and Hertha Marquardt, in her exhaustive study of Robinson's personal and intellectual relationship with Germany, includes selections from previously unpublished correspondence and journals. The labors of Sadler, Morley, and Marquardt have in fact made available a large selection of Robinson's work that has substantial literary, historical, and autobiographical value and that justifies the assumption of this study that it is high time that we recognize Robinson not only as a valuable source of firsthand information about other nineteenth-century writers, but also as a versatile and gifted life writer in his own right. His accomplishments in this area are varied and impressive, and especially so during his transformative years in Germany.