Essays in the Art of Writing

by Robert Louis Stevenson

[36] Antony and Cleopatra.

[37a] Cymbeline.

[37b] The V is in ‘of.’

[38] Troilus and Cressida.

[47a] First published in the Fortnightly Review, April 1881.

[47b] Mr. James Payn.

[64] A footnote, at least, is due to the admirable example set before all young writers in the width of literary sympathy displayed by Mr. Swinburne. He runs forth to welcome merit, whether in Dickens or Trollope, whether in Villon, Milton, or Pope. This is, in criticism, the attitude we should all seek to preserve; not only in that, but in every branch of literary work.

[75a] First published in the British Weekly, May 13, 1887.

[75b] Of the British Weekly.

[93] First published in the Magazine of Art in 1883.