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Horace Walpole's Cat

Christopher Frayling

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Description:This delightful compendium focuses on one of the best-loved poems in the English language, but in the process it takes the reader on an engaging romp through the literary, intellectual, and cultural world of the eighteenth century. It brings alive a host of engaging characters: Horace Walpole himself (one of the great letter writers of all time, wit, raconteur; the curmudgeonly Dr. Johnson (who nevertheless had a very fine cat indeed ) and his sometimes recalcitrant biographer James Boswell; and a cast of handsome cats, including Selima and Zama.In February 1747, Selima the tabby fell into a Chinese blue and white porcelain tub in Walpole s house in London s Mayfair and never returned to dry land. The poem by Thomas Gray, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold-fishes, was written as her mock epitaph. Here is the true history of the event, and a look at the sparkling social and cultural life of the period. It is beautifully illustrated with Richard Bentley s original series of designs for the poem, William Blake s wonderful watercolors of some fifty years later, and the unpublished color illustrations produced in the 1940s by the noted children s book illustrator Kathleen Hale, of Orlando the Marmalade Cat fame.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Horace Walpole's Cat. To get started finding Horace Walpole's Cat, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 80

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ISBN: 0500514917

Description: This delightful compendium focuses on one of the best-loved poems in the English language, but in the process it takes the reader on an engaging romp through the literary, intellectual, and cultural world of the eighteenth century. It brings alive a host of engaging characters: Horace Walpole himself (one of the great letter writers of all time, wit, raconteur; the curmudgeonly Dr. Johnson (who nevertheless had a very fine cat indeed ) and his sometimes recalcitrant biographer James Boswell; and a cast of handsome cats, including Selima and Zama.In February 1747, Selima the tabby fell into a Chinese blue and white porcelain tub in Walpole s house in London s Mayfair and never returned to dry land. The poem by Thomas Gray, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold-fishes, was written as her mock epitaph. Here is the true history of the event, and a look at the sparkling social and cultural life of the period. It is beautifully illustrated with Richard Bentley s original series of designs for the poem, William Blake s wonderful watercolors of some fifty years later, and the unpublished color illustrations produced in the 1940s by the noted children s book illustrator Kathleen Hale, of Orlando the Marmalade Cat fame.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Horace Walpole's Cat. To get started finding Horace Walpole's Cat, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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