Enoch Soames

Enoch Soames’s first book has sold three copies. When the narrator asks if it is selling splendidly, the poet snarls, “You don’t suppose I CARE, do you?”

In the smoky restaurants and art-filled rooms of 1890s London, Soames keeps company with poets and painters, though he is always on the fringe. He is a shabby, stubborn figure who despises his fellow writers, insists his own work is great, and claims to scorn the recognition that never comes. Max Beerbohm tells his story with a wicked eye for artistic vanity and a growing tenderness for the forlorn poet. But if Soames truly wants to know what posterity thinks of him, how far will he go to find out?

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