The Prince Of Minor Writers

"Called by Virginia Woolf "the prince" of essayists and praised by F. W. Dupee for a "whim of iron, cleverness amounting to genius," Max Beerbohm himself noted that "only the insane take themselves quite seriously." Nonetheless, from his precocious debutas a dandy in 1890s Oxford until, after World War II, when he put the pen aside, Beerbohm was re