Reminiscences and Table-talk of Samuel Rogers, Banker, Poet, & Patron of the Arts, 1763-1855;

by Samuel Rogers, Alexander Dyce, William Sharpe

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322 pages, Hardcover

First published August 9, 2015

About the author

Samuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His recollections of these and other friends such as Charles James Fox are key sources for information about London artistic and literary life, with which he was intimate, and which he used his wealth to support. He made his money as a banker and was also a discriminating art collector.

Reviews

[Barbara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who entertained the most distinguished persons of his time at his hospitable table. This volume contains fascinating, mostly good-natured, source material for the social and literary history of Great Britain over the span of his long life (1763 - 1855).

I particularly enjoyed getting to know Charles James Fox, Henry Grattan and (a surprise favourite) the Duke of Wellington. The copious Byroniana doesn't enhance that poet's personal standing with me but I wish there had been more Wordsworth. I suspect that many of the oft-quoted remarks of the famous men and women of the era have come down to us via Rogers's re-telling of them at his table and in his reminiscences.

As I was recording this book for Librivox, I enjoyed doing lots of supplementary googling. The era currently holds a fascination for me.