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Theodore Spencer : selected essays / edited by Alan C. Purves.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spencer, Theodore, 1902-1949.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. 1966
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 368 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1966]
- Contents:
- The critic's function
- Anataeus, or poetic language and the actual world
- The influence of the arts on social organization
- The story of Ugolino in Dante and Chaucer
- Chaucer's hell: a study in medieval convention
- The poetry of Sir Philip Sidney
- Two classic Elizabethans: Samuel Daniel and Sir John Davies
- John Marston
- The Elizabethan malcontent
- Thomas Coryat, an Elizabethan crudity
- The history of an unfortunate lady
- The isolation of the Shakespearean hero
- Hamlet and the nature of reality
- The two noble kinsmen
- A commentary on Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
- Appearance and reality in Shakespeare's last plays
- William Butler Yeats
- The poetry of T.S. Eliot
- Lovejoy's Essays in the history of ideas
- Montaigne in America
- The feeble of the Who's
- How to criticize a poem.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.-"Bibliography: prose works of Theodore Spencer": pages 357-362.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 263152641
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