First published in 1964, The Paradise of Travellers devotes particular attention to travel books. Not only the records of such celebrated tourists as Fynes Moryson and John Evelyn, but those of many others, equally interesting, are examined.
In view of the author of Oliver Goldsmith (originally published in 1974), the many biographies which have appeared seem defective in several respects. Dr Lytton Sells given us a life of Goldsmith that is both sound and readable and takes account of all the evidence available.
First published in 1955, The Italian Influence in English Poetry analyzes the non-dramatic work of various poets to show how, beginning with Chaucer, Englishmen took from Italy many of the forms of their poetry, many of its techniques and much of its subject-matter.