A CULTURAL TOURIST IN ROMANTIC GERMANY: HENRY CRABB ROBINSON AS NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIFE WRITER.

Robinson, Henry Crabb, 1775-1867; Sadler, Thomas; Romanticism in literature; Diary (Literary form); Literary movements; Aesthetics; Letters

The article presents information about the nineteenth-century writer Henry Crabb Robinson. To the student of British Romanticism, the name Henry Crabb Robinson registers mostly as that of an early informant about some of its leading writers. According to educationist Thomas Sadler, Robinson envisioned "the posthumous publication" of a selection from his Reminiscences, with some letters. The assiduous editor clearly went beyond this modest scope, producing what should be recognized as one of the great autobiographical compendia, valuable as a revelation of Robinson's life and character as well as his recollections of a host of notable writers and public figures in England and on the Continent.