The British poet Dick Davis, in his collection “Belonging” (2002), has a brilliant poem that encapsulates Casanova’s “Story of My Life” in five rhyming couplets, the last of which, referring to his ...

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova, by Leo Damrosch. Yale University Press. 432 pages. $35. In Adepts in Self-Portraiture, a 1928 study of the autobiographies of Casanova, Stendhal, ...

If you look up “Casanova” you’ll find it’s an eponym for “an unscrupulous and promiscuous lover,” but as the award-winning cultural critic, Leo Damrosch shows in his entertaining and informative ...

We tend to think of the 18th century Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova as an “irresistible rake”, said Laura Freeman in The Times. But according to Leo Damrosch, professor of literature at Harvard, ...

Samuel Johnson, the man of letters who bestrode England in the 18th century, was said by a contemporary to “set a higher value upon female friendship than, perhaps, most men.” This quotation appears ...

In his latest, Harvard literature professor and veteran biographer Damrosch (Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius) recounts the life of satirist Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels. The ...

Leo Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of *Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius*, a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award in ...

Schiller, a nonfiction writing professor at Texas Tech, debuts with a moving examination of the complex reality of growing old in the U.S. After her grandmother died of Continue reading » The Emerson ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Leo Damrosch is a Professor for Literature in the Harvard University with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2010 Speech. Most common tag: Early ...