About the Author

D.S. Mirsky is the English pen name of Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky, often known as Prince Mirsky (1890 - 1939), a Russian political and literary historian who promoted the knowledge and translations of Russian literature in Britain and of English literature in the Soviet Union.

Reviews

[Mirsky's] histories of ltierature ... possess learning, elegance, wit, intellectual gaiety, and an incomparable style and sweep and power of communicating impressions and ideas. --Sir Isaiah Berlin

Prince Mirsky is both scholar and stylist; his books, therefore, have a double right to live. --Clifton Fadiman