Dowden, Edward, literary critic, professor of English Literature in Dublin University, born in Cork; is distinguished specially as a Shakesperian; is author of “Shakespeare: a Study of his Mind and Art,” “Introduction to Shakespeare,” and “Shakesperian Sonnets, with Notes”; has written “Studies in Literature,” and a “Life of Shelley”; is well read in German as well as English literature; has written with no less ability on Goethe than on Shakespeare; b. 1843.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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