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Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers

Samuel Rogers · 1856

A 1856 book of anecdotes and conversation recorded from the poet Samuel Rogers, published with the Porsoniana. Curators note that it includes observations of Bentham by acquaintances.

Records anecdotes by Rogers, with observations of Bentham by acquaintances, offering a contemporary view of him.

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Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers, Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1856.

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What it is

This is a book titled Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers, published in New York by D. Appleton and Company in 1856. It is 346 pages long and was added to the Porsoniana, a collection of anecdotes about the scholar Richard Porson. The author is the English poet Samuel Rogers, who was born in 1763 and died in 1855. The scanned copy comes from the Internet Archive.

Why it matters

Table-talk books record what people said in conversation, so they show the social life of London's literary circles in the early 1800s. Rogers was known as a poet who hosted company, and his anecdotes give a view of the people who gathered around him. Curators note that the book includes observations of Bentham made by acquaintances, which makes it a useful contemporary account.

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  • Who is speaking in each anecdote, and how much can we trust a record made from memory?
  • Why might a book of table-talk have been published after the speaker's death?
  • Which people or topics does the book seem to leave out?

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