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Fresh Manuscript Sources for a Life of William Congreve

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

John C. Hodges
John C. Hodges*
Affiliation:
University of Tennessee
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Extract

No major English writer contemporary with William Congreve has left such scant information about himself. Biographers have feared, as Edmund Gosse tells us in 1888, that “the opportunity for preparing a full and picturesque life of this poet has wholly passed away.” When Gosse revised his life of Congreve in 1924, he found that the intervening thirty-five years had added practically nothing to our knowledge.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , June 1939 , pp. 432 - 438
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1939

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References

1 Life of William Congreve (London, 1888), p. 9.

2 Five of these were discussed by the present writer in MP, xxvii (1929), 183–192.