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Excerpt from The Life and Times of TennysonProfessor Lounsbury's name, I suppose, is most closely associated by the public with his studies in Chaucer and Shakespeare. His literary taste, how ever, was singularly catholic. Pope and Dryden, for example, appealed to him strongly because of their pugnacity and the keenness of their satire. Their poems he knew intimately, and he often quoted pas sages from them in conversation, not always accu rat...

Excerpt from The Early Literary Career of Robert Browning: Four Lectures Vin the series of lectures some fresh aspect or aspects of the department of thought in which he is a specialist, and that the entire series de livered each session, taken together, shall pos sess such unity that they may be published by the Foundation in book form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more...

Excerpt from Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist: With an Account of His Reputation, at Various Periods Yet the subject, however worn, continues to retain its freshness. In numerous ways Shakespeare has broken all literary records but it is to be doubted if among his many triumphs there is one more striking than the fact that, in Spite of the best or the worst that men have done to make him uninteresting by writing about him, his hold upon us ha...

Excerpt from The Text of Shakespeare: Its History From the Publication of the Quartos and Folios Down to and Including the Publication of the Editions of Pope and Theobald NO one needs to be told that the establishment of the text has been attended throughout with controversies. These have occasionally been long and have Often been bitter. Deplorable as has been the ill-feeling sometimes engendered, great as has been the injustice sometimes w...

Excerpt from James Fenimore CooperThe-sterling sailed with freight in January, 1807, for the Straits of Gibraltar. It took on board a cargo of barilla at Aguilas and Almeria, and returned to Eng land, reaching the Thames in May. Both going and coming the voyage was a stormy one, and during it several of the incidents occurred that Cooper worked up afterward into powerful passages in his sea novels. In London the vessel lay several weeks, disch...

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Excerpt from A Scholar of the Twelfth Century Have his authority felt. He was not one disposed to waive the slightest jot or tittle of the rights that sanctions, civil or eccle siastical, gave him. He was speedily plunged into a sea of troubles, which he may have affected to deplore before others, but for which he must for all that have felt satisfaction in his inmost soul. Some of the incidents that took place he tells, some are worth repeat...

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