Essai sur la littérature anglaise et considérations sur le génie des hommes, des temps et des révolutions

Chateaubriand's Essai sur la litterature anglaise, a late work by the author, published in 1836, surprises as much by its structure as by its contents. Digressive, meditative, and analytical, Chateaubriand, a gifted compiler, reveals himself to be a biographer and historian as well as a literary critic.