Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties
by Max Beerbohm
Beerbohm (then an undergraduate at Oxford) feels something near to reverence toward the
Catholic diabolist Enoch Soames, seeing as how the man from Preston has published one
book of stories and has another book of poems forthcoming, but over time, Enoch himself
becomes more and more morose and unsatisfied that he shall never see his own work
appreciated in future years.
— Michael Main
A hundred years hence! Think of it! If I could come back to life THEN—just for a few
hours—and go to the reading-room and READ! Or, better still, if I could be projected
now, at this moment, into that future, into that reading-room, just for this one
afternoon! I'd sell myself body and soul to the Devil for that!
“Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties” by Max
Beerbohm, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, May 1916.