A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, Vol. 1
Samuel Austin Allibone · 1858
Read A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, Vol. 1 by Samuel Austin Allibone (1858) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/allibone-critical-dictionary-english-literature-vol1-1858.txt.
Description
Samuel Allibone, a Philadelphia bookseller and bibliographer, published Volume One of his Critical Dictionary of English Literature in 1858. It covers authors from A to J. The full work notices some 30,000 British and American writers.
Each entry gives the author's life, a list of works, and judgments gathered from reviews and histories. Forty subject indexes help readers find writers by theme, from poetry to voyages. Allibone labored for years among his own vast book collection. The dictionary became the great Victorian bio-bibliography, the first place to learn what an author wrote and what critics said of it.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Samuel Austin Allibone |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1858 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11279719 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive |
Source: https://archive.org/details/criticaldictiona01allirich