📱 eBook en inglés NEGLECTED GENIUS

The journal of Benjamin Haydon was, Max Beerbohm reported to Siegfried Sassoon, the best diary Beerbohm had ever read. Harold Acton declared Haydon a more exciting figure than Ruskin. H.H. Asquith compared him favourably with Rousseau, while Aldous Huxley declared that Never was anyone more clearly cut out to be an author.

Today Haydons portraits and monumental historical paintings hang in almost all Britains major collections. However in his own time (1786-1846) his reputation was less secure. Although an intimate of Wordsworth and Walter Scott, on friendly terms with lords and politicians, Haydon was also well acquainted with debtors prison. Still he remained throughout a witty, brilliant diarist, vividly evidenced by this volume, expertly edited by John Jolliffe, which gathers opinions on everything from the Elgin Marbles and Turners landscapes to Napoleons digestion and Queen Victorias complexion.