Ernest Rhys

Ernest Rhys
Ernest Rhys was a Welsh writer, best known for founding and editing the "Everyman's Library" series, a collection of affordable classic works published by J.M. Dent & Sons. Born in 1859, Rhys was also a poet, essayist, and translator, producing works like "Welsh Ballads" and "A Century of English Essays." His vision for "Everyman's Library" was to provide great literature to the general public, making it accessible to readers from all walks of life. Rhys remained the series' editor from its inception in 1906 until his death in 1946.

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I By Edgar Allan PoeSon cœur est un luth suspendu;Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne.De Beranger. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of... more...

INTRODUCTION This is a book of short essays which have been chosen with the full liberty the form allows, but with the special idea of illustrating life, manners and customs, and at intervals filling in the English country background. The longer essays, especially those devoted to criticism and to literature, are put aside for another volume, as their different mode seems to require. But the... more...

His Early Years To Italy, at whose liberal well-head English Art has so often renewed itself, we turn naturally for an opening to this chronicle of a great English artist's career. Frederic Leighton was the painter of our time who strove hardest to keep alive an Italian ideal of beauty in London; therefore it is in Italy, the Italy of Raphael and Angelo and his favourite Giotteschi, that we must... more...