Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smith (18 octobre 1865 – 2 mars 1946) est un essayiste et critique littéraire américain qui a vécu au Royaume-Uni. Connu pour ses aphorismes et ses épigrammes, il doit aussi sa notoriété à son autobiographie, Unforgotten Years (1938).

Smith était né à Millville, dans le New Jersey, mais il s'installa à Londres.

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Biographie

Fils de deux quakers célèbres, Robert Pearsall Smith et Hannah Whitall Smith, Logan fit d'abord ses études à Haverford College, un établissement quaker situé en Pennsylvanie, puis il s'inscrivit à Balliol College (Oxford). Sa sœur cadette Alys (1867-1951) fut la première femme de Bertrand Russell et sa sœur aînée Mary (1864-1945) épousa Bernard Berenson.

Smith fut grandement influencé par Walter Pater. Ses disciples furent entre autres Robert Gathorne-Hardy, Desmond MacCarthy, John Russell, R. C. Trevelyan et Hugh Trevor-Roper.

Proche du Bloomsbury Group, il publia plusieurs ouvrages à la Hogarth Press dans les années 1920. Sa personnalité servit de modèle au personnage de Sir Nicholas Greene (Nick Greene) dans Orlando, le roman de Virginia Woolf.

Œuvres

  • 1895. The Youth of Parnassus, and other stories
  • 1902. Trivia
  • 1907. The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton. Biography
  • 1909. Songs and Sonnets
  • 1912. The English Language
  • 1919. A Treasury of English Prose
  • 1920. Little Essays Drawn From The Writings Of George Santayana
  • 1920 (ed.). Donne's Sermons: Selected Passages with an Essay
  • 1920. Stories from the Old Testament retold. Hogarth Press
  • 1921. More Trivia
  • 1923. English Idioms
  • 1925. Words and Idioms
  • 1927. The Prospects of Literature. Hogarth Press
  • 1930 (ed.) The Golden Grove: Selected Passages From The Sermons and Writings of Jeremy Taylor
  • 1931. Afterthoughts
  • 1933. All Trivia. Collection
  • 1933. Last Words
  • 1933. On Reading Shakespeare
  • 1936. Fine Writing
  • 1937. Reperusals & Recollections
  • 1938. Unforgotten Years
  • 1940. Milton and His Modern Critics
  • 1943. A Treasury Of English Aphorisms
  • 1949 (ed.). A Religious Rebel: The Letters of "H.W.S." (Mrs. Pearsall Smith). Published in the USA as Philadelphia Quaker, The Letters of Hannah Whitall Smith
  • 1949 (ed.). The Golden Shakespeare
  • 1972. Four Words. Romantic, Originality, Creative, Genius
  • 1982. Saved from the Salvage. With a Memoir of the Author by Cyril Connolly
  • 1989 (Edward Burman ed.) Logan Pearsall Smith. Anthology.

Bibliographie

  • Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1949) Recollections of Logan Pearsall Smith
  • John Russell, ed. (1950) A Portrait of Logan Pearsall Smith drawn from His letters and Diaries
  • Barbara Strachey (1980) Remarkable Relation: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Family
  • Edwin Tribble, ed. (1984) A Chime of Words: The Letters of Logan Pearsall Smith

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