Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers

Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers is a work edited by Alexander Dyce, published in 1856. It compiles the witty and often sharp conversations of Samuel Rogers, an English poet and banker known for his influential position in London society and as a generous host. Rogers, who wrote popular poems like The Pleasures of Memory, inherited a banking firm and became a patron of the arts and a friend to many prominent poets. His home was a hub for cultured individuals, and his conversations, though sometimes unkind, were meticulously recorded by Dyce. Dyce himself was a Scottish editor known for his scrupulous work on 19th-century literature, particularly the plays of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries.12