From a Cornish Window

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

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374 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1906

About the author

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He is primarily remembered for the monumental "Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900" (later extended to 1918), and for his literary criticism. He guided the taste of many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of 84 Charing Cross Road, its sequel, Q's Legacy, and the putatively fictional Horace Rumpole via John Mortimer, his literary amanuensis.

Reviews

[Lisa]

I downloaded ‘From a Cornish Window” for sentimental reasons (having lived in Cornwall for a while) but it's not about Cornwall - and it is most bizarre… Quiller-Couch is an odd-bod, to say the least.
It's ok in its own quaint way, but I put it aside to read something else and I can't be bothered going back to it. Not even to add a Q surname to my list of books read.
GR needs a button to denote abandoment because marking it 'read' is a lie, and the only other alternative is to delete it, and then I wouldn't have a record of having started it.
And you never know, it's still on my Kindle, I may feel guilty and some back to it one day...

I don't rate books I don't finish.

[Rollie Reid · Rating 2 out of 5]

A collection of musings, month by month during a whole year. The author was a well-known authority on English poetry and much of the commentary is about poetry.