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Excerpt from The Thankless Muse
This volume includes, with a number of new poems, a selection from a book of verses published in 1878, and entitled "Odds and Ends." Half of that edition - of five hundred copies - was consumed by the public, the other half much more rapidly by the fire which burned Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Boston store in 1879.
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Excerpt from Milton's Tercentenary: An Address Delivered Before the Modern Language Club of Yale University on Milton's Three Hundredth BirthdayOf the master. Two things in par ticular, the rhythm and the style, go on Victoriously as by their own momentum. God the Father may be a school divine and Adam a mem ber of Parliament, but the verse never ¿ags, the diction never fails. The poem may grow heavy, but not languid, thin or weak. I confess t...
Excerpt from The Two Twilights
The thankless muse
The muses ring my bell and run away.
I spy you, rogues, behind the evergreen:
You, wild Thalia, romper in the hay,
And you, Terpsichore, you long-legged quean.
When I was young you used to come and stay,
But, now that I grow older, 'tis well seen
What tricks ye put upon me. Well-a-day!
How many a summer evening have ye been
Sitting about my door-step, fain to sing
And tell old tales, while ...
Excerpt from Initial Studies American Letters
This volume, originally published in 1887 as An Out line Sketch of American Literature, and reissued under the present title in 1891, with an appendix consisting of selections from representative American writers, is in tended as a companion to the historical sketch of English literature, entitled From Chaucer to Tennyson, pub lished in 1886 (revised edition for the Chautauqua Circle. It has now (...
Excerpt from Nathaniel Parker WillisThe materials for a life of Willis are rich enough to be embarrassing. Most of his writ ings are, in a greater or less degree, autobio graphical, and it would be possible to make a very tolerable life of him, by arranging passages from these in the right order, and linking them together with a few paragraphs of cold facts. Then, he lived very much in the world's eye, and was constantly talked and written abo...
Excerpt from Selections From the Prose Writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Edited With Introduction and Notes
The design of this volume is to make accessible, in a convenient form, some of the best passages in Coleridge's prose. The Biographia Liter aria and Table Talk will always be favorite books with scholars, but it is to be feared that the ponderous essays of The Friend and Aids to Reflection are not often disturbed nowadays by scholars...
Excerpt from Points at Issue: And Some Other Points
A confusion in the use of terms. What are the elements of English? And what is meant by English Are we not possibly talking here about two or three distinct things In a sense, we may be said to teach the elements Of English at Yale when we begin reading Shak spere with a class of sophomores, or an Anglo Saxon primer with a class Of juniors. We are not sure that any member of the former class...
Excerpt from A Suburban Pastoral: And Other Tales
In their walks about Southwick it was often agreed between Sproat and Clitheroe that the one or the other of them ought to have an uncle living somewhere in the environs. But each insisted that the duty of providing him lay with the other: Clitheroe on the ground that he had come to town several months the later and was therefore a comparative stranger, Sproat because, as he maintained, Clithe...
Excerpt from The Ways of Yale in the Consulship of Plancus
One of the most important contributions yet made to literary history by an American scholar. - outlook.
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Excerpt from A Century of American Literature, 1776-1876
The retrospective turn given to American thought by the celebrations of the Centennial year, has stimulated an interest in the history of our literature. Mr. W. J. Linton's Poetry of America and Mr. Charles F. Richardson's Primer of American Literature are perhaps symptomatic of this. Prof. M. C. Tyler's History of American Literature, long announced, is now also said to be forthcoming ...
Excerpt from The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays
He begins by citing the paper which I have been citing: How came the Muses to settle in Connecticut? But the seed of the Muses has run out. No more Pleiades in Hartford and answers that, if the author of the article asks Nathanael's ques tion, putting Hartford for Nazareth, he can refer him to Brownell's Lyrics of a Day. If Drayton had fought at Agincourt, if Campbell had held a sabre at Hohe...
Excerpt from A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
But I hope that this second volume may make more clear the unity of my design and the limits of my subject.
It is scarcely necessary to add that no absolute estimate is attempted of the writers whose works are described in this history. They are looked at exclusively from a sin gle point of view. H. A. B.
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Excerpt from Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman
Now, I am not myself an advocate of race suicide but I confess to a feeling of sympathy with the lady thus denounced, whose point of view is, at least, comprehensible. Old Mal thus was not such an ass as some folks think. It is impossible not to admire Roosevelt's courage, honesty, and wonderful energy impossible to keep from liking the man for his boyish impulsiveness, camar...
