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The world of restoration comedy
(1929)At the outset, let us examine in a general way, the point of view of the people of the Restoration Comedy World. Let us try to discover what their chief interests were. First, what did they think of the world in which they ... -
Mark Twain's pessimism
(1929)The shift of interest from what a man is, to an interest in what made him that way, is a significant indication of the present generation's mechanistic turn of mind. Though mildly interested in the appearances of things, ... -
The function of music and song in Elizabethan drama through Shakespeare
(1930)The Elizabethan age has been called "The Golden Age of English Music" and the England of that day "a nest of singing birds". We read that everybody sang - the tavern chanters their "catches" and the cultured their "ayres" ... -
Reflections of renaissance ideas of education in the plays of Shakespeare
(1932)That the period of the Middle Ages seems to have been one of exceeding gloom and stagnation is probably because of the contrast between it and that most brilliant age known as the Renaissance which followed. Many scholars ... -
The historical background of Shakespeare's Henry VIII
(1932)The historical range of Shakespeare's Henry VIII play is vast and inclusive. A word here, a suggestion there recalls to the reader a whole field of events. These references concern themselves, not with England alone, but ... -
The influence of Emerson on Walt Whitman
(1932)Any person who attempts to make an analysis of the sources of Walt Whitman's distinctive literary product, shortly meets the problem of determining the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson upon the author of Leaves of Grass; ... -
Charles Dickens' attitude toward economic theories
(1937)In 1837, the year in which Queen Victoria came to the throne, Charles Dickens was twenty-five years old and was rapidly gaining in fame with each successive appearance of the Pickwick Papers and of Oliver Twist. Until his ... -
Emerson and Spinoza: a comparative study of their metaphysics and ethics and Emerson's position as a monistic thinker
(1939)This study of Emerson's philosophy is divided into two parts, each of which can stand independently of the other. In Part I a comparison is made between the metaphysics and ethics of Emerson and Spinoza. I have not concerned ... -
The significance of man in Wordsworth's poetry
(1941)This thesis has been planned to show that Wordsworth was a poet of personality and character, to distinguish and to rescue his handling of man from the modern lay-man's attitude that he is a mere nature poet. He was, rather, ... -
The element of objectivity in Nathaniel Hawthorne's romances
(1942)This thesis has for its purpose the vindication of Nathaniel Hawthorne's claim that his fiction was objective. It is not immediately evident that Hawthorne had taken pains to define, even for himself, the term objective. ... -
A study of Rølvaag's idealism
(1947)The place of Ole Edvart Rølvaag among the great realists in American fiction has been generally acknowledged as dependent upon his best known novel, Giants in the Earth, and its sequels, Peder Victorious and Their Fathers' ... -
Until the day break
(1948)The last big storm of winter began blowing on the seventeenth of March. It blew hard all that day and night, and the next day the wind went away, but the snow continued falling until almost dark. The forest took it without ... -
A study in Shelley's "Triumph of life"
(1949)Shelley's last long poem, the "Triumph of Life," was written at Lerici, on the Bay of Spezzia, in the spring and summer of 1822, the last year of Shelley's life. Of those days at Lerici and of the writing of the "Triumph ... -
Super-realism in the novels of Charles Dickens
(1950)The approach to the observation and demonstration of what may be termed super-realism in Dickens' novels does not conform to the ordinary methods of criticism because it cannot be objective. Almost everything that can be ... -
Emerson, Greenough, and the transcendental esthetic
(1952)The New England transcendentalists have not generally been considered first and foremost as the founders and champions of an esthetic philosophy in America. They were ministers, most of them, ostensibly concerned more with ... -
Yeats and Indian philosophy
(1952)Reading Yeats' works - whether in prose or in verse - one is constantly aware of the poet's deep interest in Indian philosophy. There are frequent references to Hinduism, Buddhism, the Upanishads, and Vedic philosophy in ... -
Roots stronger in the earth; |b a study of Whitman's L̲e̲a̲v̲e̲s̲ o̲f̲ g̲r̲a̲s̲s̲ in relation to Emerson's poetic theories
(1953)Perhaps no correspondence between American authors has been of more interest in the literary world than that of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman--surely none of such limited extent. No biography of either man seems ... -
A study of the hero in Byron's Don Juan
(1953)Much has been written about Byron's masterpiece, Don Juan. Indeed, since it is his longest and best work, it deserves a major portion of the critic's attention. Yet, strangely enough, there hare been few books devoted to ... -
Difficult contemporary short stories; |b William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Dylan Thomas, Eudora Welty and Virginia Woolf
(1954)The definition of a short story is made complex because the people who write them are always changing the rules without consulting the critics. As a result, what was a good definition in 1900 is not good today. If one were ... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald's T̲e̲n̲d̲e̲r̲ i̲s̲ t̲h̲e̲ N̲i̲g̲h̲t̲: the idea as morality
(1955)Professor R. P. Blackraur has said that "Fitzgerald made of his morality a screen for his self-love." This may well be true. But I do not think that such a habit was distinct only to Fitzgerald. Indeed, to some degree, I ...