Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
1906
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
1906
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, published in 1906 by Bram Stoker, is a biographical account of the esteemed English actor Henry Irving. As Stoker's third non-fiction work, it offers a unique perspective on Irving's life and career, detailing his rise to fame and his significant impact on the theater. Drawing from nearly three decades of friendship, Stoker provides personal anecdotes and critical reflections that illuminate Irving's artistry and the challenges faced by performers in a changing theatrical landscape.
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“The process of a creative argument is a silent and lonely one, requiring investigation and guesses, the following up of clues in that labyrinth of thought till their utility or their falsity has been proved. The most that a striving mind can do at such a time is to keep sight of some main purpose or tendency-some perpetual recognition of its objective. If in addition the thinker has to keep eternally and consciously within his purview a lot of other subjects bearing on his main idea, each with its own attendant distractions and divergences, his argument would to a listener seem but a jumble of undigested facts, deductions, and imaginings. Moreover, it would leave in the mind of the latter a belief that the speaker is without real conviction at all; a mere groper in the dark. If, on the other hand, the man thinking out his problem tries to hear in mind his friend’s understanding-with an eye to his ultimate approval and acceptance of his argument and condescension-he is apt to limit himself to commonplace and acceptable truths.””
— Bram Stoker
