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The function of the poet and other essays. / Collected and edited by Albert Mordell.
LIBRA 809.1 L952
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 223 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
- Contents:
- On poetry and belles-lettres: The function of the poet. Humor, wit, fun, and satire. The five indispensable authors (Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Shakespeare) The imagination. Critical fragments: 1. Life in literature and language. 2. Style and manner. 3. Kalevala.
- Reviews of contemporaries: Henry James: James's tales and sketches. Longfellow: The courtship of Miles Standish. Tales of a wayside inn. Whittier: In war time, and other poems. Home ballads and poems. Snow-bound: a winter idyl. Poetry and nationality. W. D. Howells: Venetian life. Edgar A. Poe. Thackeray: roundabout papers.
- Two great authors: Swift: Forster's life of Swift. Plutarch's morals. A plea for freedom from speech and figures of speech-makers.
- OCLC:
- 1061314
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