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He says, very simply, "What poetry does for us to give us new ideas, clearer visions, stronger emotions and also to express as we could not have done for ourselves, what we have already thought and seen and felt. "
199
Strachan, Robert Harvey. The soul of modern poetry. Hod-
der, 1922.
Its great value lies in the fact that approaches poetry again, not as doctrinaire art, but as part of life, of daily life. —John Drink- water.
200
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster. The good estate of poetry. Little, 1929.
The charm of style, delightful irony and humor, sane judgment and —deep sense of spiritual values have seldom been more happily blended.
Yale Review.
Analyticals on the praise poetry.
Arnold, Matthew. Essays in criticism, v. p. 1-55.
[210]
Auslander, Joseph, and Hill, F. E. The winged horse,
p. 1-16; 412-420. [211]
Bradley, A. C. Oxford lectures on poetry, p. 3-34. [219] Drinkwater, John. The muse in council, p. 1-74. [250]
The way of poetry, p. xv-xxx. [152]
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IV.
THE FORMS, MEASURES AND RHYTHMS OF ENGLISH POETRY
201
Alden, Raymond Macdonald. An introduction to poetry.
Holt, 1909.
Covers the technique of poetry in a complete, concise and scholarly manner. —Booklist.
202
Andrews, Clarence Edward. The writing and reading of
verse. Appleton, 1918.
An interesting introduction to the technique of poetry, the measures, the forms, the rhythms and cadences.
203
Hubbell, Jay Broadus. An introduction to poetry; by Jay
Broadus Hubbell and John O. Beatty. Macmillan, 1922.
Intended for use during the first two years of college. It gives a clear discussion of the technical methods of poetry with interesting quotations.
204
Jones, Llewellyn. First impressions; essays on poetry, crit icism and prosody. Knopf, 1925.
205
Ker, William Paton. Form and style in poetry ; lectures and notes ; ed. by R. W. Chambers. Macmillan, 1928.
206
Untermeyer, Louis. Forms of poetry ; a pocket dictionary of
verse. Harcourt, 1926.
The simplest and easiest to use of the introductions to verse-making, containing the sort of information the larger books are often too lordly to set down. —Saturday Review of Literature.
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207
Adams, Joseph Quincy. Life of William Shakespeare.
Houghton, 1923.
It is something "more than authoritative, it is also preeminently read able— a fascinating book in and of itself. " —Atlantic Bookshelf.
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208
Alden, Raymond Macdonald. Alfred Tennyson ; how to
know him. Bobbs, 1917.
A sound interpretation. The important briefer poems are given entire, with critical comments, the longer poems in part. —Booklist.
209
Shakespeare. (Master spirits of literature) Dufneld, 1922.
Comprehensive, unprejudiced. Characterised by a lively distrust of the unproved and unprovable. — Tucker Brooke.
210
Arnold, Matthew. Essays in criticism, v. 2. (Eversley ser. ) Macmillan, 1902.
211
Auslander, Joseph. The winged horse : the story of the poets and their poetry; with decorations by Paul Honore and a bibliography by Theresa West Elmendorf ; by Joseph Aus lander and Frank Ernest Hill. Doubleday, 1927.
The story of the development of poetry from the war cries and the labor chanties to the modern poets of England and America. It opens the gates most invitingly to the wide realm of poetry, not to young people only, but to older folk as well.
212
Bailey, John. Milton. (Home univ. lib. ) Holt, 1915.
Still a figure of transcendent interest, the most lion-hearted, the lofti- est-souled of Englishmen, the one consummate artist our race has produced. —Introduction.
213
Shakespeare. (English heritage ser. ) Longmans, 1929.
It is written with the aim of adding to the ordinary reader's enjoy ment of Shakespeare. The author goes through the poems and the plays keeping as close to the text and the meaning as possible. —Book Review Digest.
214
Walt Whitman. (English men of letters) Mac millan, 1926.
It is one of the best pieces of literary criticism of recent years. — /. St. L. Strachey.
The author does not know American customs and sentiment.
215
Bazalgette, Leon. Walt Whitman, the man and his work.
Doubleday, 1920.
A good short life. —North American Review.
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216
Benson, Arthur Christopher. Essays. Heinemann, 1896.
217
Boissier, Gaston. The country of Horace and Virgil; tr. by
D. H. Fisher. Putnam, 1896.
One of the most enjoyable of guides. Light, lucid and up-to-date. M. Boissier's essays make travel interesting and scholarship entertaining. — Academy.
218
Boynton, Percy Holmes. Some contemporary Americans; the personal equation in literature. Univ. of Chicago, 1924.
219
Bradley, Andrew Cecil. Oxford lectures on poetry. Mac-
millan, 1909.
Profound, vigorous and original. About one third of the volume is devoted to Shakespeare, the rest to Hegel, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats. — A. L. A. catalog, 1926.
220
Shakespearian tragedy; lectures on Hamlet, Othello,
King Lear, and Macbeth. 2d ed. Macmillan, 1905.
A great achievement. Nothing has been written for many years that has done so much as these lectures will do to advance the understanding and appreciation of the greatest things in Shakespeare's greatest plays. —John Bailey.
221
Bridges, Horace James. Our fellow Shakespeare. 2d ed. rev. Covici, 1925.
Studies of the more popular plays, written in the hope of interesting some who fear Shakespeare as a classic to the enjoyable reading of the plays.
222
Brooke, Stopford Augustus. Studies in poetry. Duckworth, 1907.
Contents : William Blake, Sir Walter Scott, Inaugural address to the Shelley Society, The lyrics of Shelley, Epipsychidion, Keats.
223
Brooks, Alfred Mansfield. Dante ; how to know him. Bobbs, 1916.
Representative passages have been selected, usually in direct transla tion from the Italian, giving "the complete unfolding of the story, to gether with its moral and philosophical significance. " For the beginner.
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224
Burroughs, John. Birds and poets, with other papers.
Houghton, 1895.
Essays showing the loving observation of nature by the poets.
225
Butler, Arthur John. Dante, his times and his work.
Innes, 1895.
A study for beginners. It illuminates many points which if unex plained are blind to the beginner.
226
Campbell, Lewis. Tragic drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles and
Shakespeare; an essay. Longmans, 1904.
The purpose of this study is to trace some relations between the Greek tragedies and some great masterpieces of the Elizabethan time.
227
Cary, Elizabeth Luther. Browning, poet and man; a sur
Putnam, 1899.
The book itself is of value but the series of pictures will give pleasure to lovers of the poet.
228 1900.
229
Chapman, John Jay. Greek genius, and other essays. Mof
fat, 1915.
Delightful essays. Freshness of viewpoint, humor and brilliancy of style characterize them. —Booklist.
230
Chaytor, Henry John. The troubadours. Cambridge, 1912.
vey.
France. —Booklist.
The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina. Putnam,
. . .
it treats fully and simply the origin, technique and history of Provencal lyric poetry . . . the influence of which was keenly felt in Italy, Spain, Germany, England and Southern
231
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Robert Browning. (English
men of letters) Macmillan, 1903.
It phrases certain true things about Browning better than they have been phrased before. . . . His main thesis is the essential simplicity, the healthy primitiveness of Browning's temperament. On this point he has much to sav that is both wholesome and fresh—Atlantic.
Popular and interesting
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Church, Richard William. Dante and other essays. Mac- millan, 1888.
Contents : Dante ; William Wordsworth ; Sordello.
233
Clutton-Brock, Arthur. Shelley, the man and the poet.
2d ed. Methuen, 1923.
A sympathetic study, with flashes of brilliant criticism. —A. L. A. catalog, 1926.
234
William Morris, his work and influence. (Home univ. lib. ) Holt, 1912.
A sympathetic study : the facts of his life, a reflection of his char acter, temperament and charm, reviews of his writings, his artistic work, his socialism. —Booklist.
235
Cody, Sherwin. Poe — man, poet and creative thinker. Boni, 1924.
A fresh view of the poet illustrated and supported by a liberal selec tion from his poetry and critical work.
236
Collins, William Lucas. Aristophanes. (Ancient classics
for English readers) Lippincott, 1879.
237
Colvin, Sir Sidney. John Keats; his life and poetry, his
friends, critics and after fame. Scribner, 1917.
It is a book to read with delight ; better still it is a book that compels one to turn back and reread the poet himself. —Dial.
238
Copleston, Reginald Stephen. Aeschylus. (Ancient classics for English readers) Lippincott, 1879.
239
Cowling, George Herbert. A preface to Shakespeare. Me
thuen, 1925.
Begins with Shakespeare's England, gives a brief but adequate ac count of the Elizabethan playhouses and the relations of the Privy Council and of the city to the drama and so comes to Shakespeare's life. — Times (L) Literary Supplement.
240
Crothers, Samuel McChord. Ralph Waldo Emerson and how to know him. Bobbs, 1921.
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241
Davies, James. Hesiod and Theognis. (Ancient classics for
English readers) Lippincott, 1873.
242
Davison, Edward. Some modern poets and other critical es says. Harper, 1928.
243
Dawson, William James. Makers of English poetry, rev. ed. Revell, 1906.
Stimulating and enjoyable.
244
De Selincourt, Basil. William Blake. Scribner, 1909.
The author expands such subjects as Blake's simplicity, force, mysticism, application of symbolism, theories of art and artistic de velopment.
245
Dickinson, Emily. Life and letters, by her niece, Martha
Dickinson Bianchi. Houghton, 1924.
The "Life" occupies about one third of the volume, the remainder is a selection of the poet's original and most characteristic letters.
246
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. The Greek view of life.
7th ed. Doubleday, 1925.
His sketch of Greek life and thought is so lucid in presentation and so fresh and penetrating in its criticisms, that his work will receive a welcome from all who feel an interest in what he finely calls the fairest and happiest halting-place in the secular life of man. — Spectator.
247
Dinsmore, Charles Allen. Life of Dante Alighieri. Hough
ton, 1919.
Readable. It places the poet in relation to his age and surroundings by a description of the thirteenth century and the city of Florence at that time.
248
Dowden, Edward. New studies in literature, new ed. Kegan Paul, 1902.
249
Shakespeare; a critical study of his mind and art. Harper, 1918.
Very attractively written . . . —
an interesting and suggestive book. It
is one of the best books that a young student can read. Charles F. Johnson.
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250
Drinkwater, John. The muse in council; essays on poets and
poetry. Houghton, 1925.
One will be sure to find in this fair-minded and candid volume a most interesting expression on poetry, by a poet of no mean reputation. — Bookman.
251
Victorian poetry. Doran, 1924.
All who in an authoritative criticism of poetry properly expect a wide knowledge of catholic enjoyment of all kinds, sensitive taste, sure judgment, along with richly nurtured humanity will thank Mr. Drinkwater for his entirely admirable book. —Richard Le Gallienne.
252
Duff, John Wight. A literary history of Rome from the
origins to the close of the golden age. Scribner, 1910.
Most admirable —marvelous for its fullness, accuracy and conden sation and for grace and interest that never fail. —Dial.
253
Edmunds, Edward William. Shelley and his poetry. etry and life ser. ) Harrap, 1911.
254
Erskine, John. The Elizabethan lyric. Columbia, 1903.
255
Everett, Charles Carroll. Essays theological and literary. Houghton, 1901.
256
Fausset, Hugh FA n son. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Cape, 1926.
The beauty of this book its endless appeal for quotation.
mine of anecdote, psychology, poetry and reminiscence in which the friends of Coleridge vividly appear. —N. Y. Times.
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Studies in idealism. Dent, 1923.
Federn, Karl. Dante and his time; introd. by A.
Heinemann, 1902.
Butler.
The form of the book interesting in itself. His close grip of the
man and his sympathetic pursuit of such slender biographical threads as history has preserved enable the reader to see vividly the time and the poet and to feel the action of the one upon the other with new understanding. —Spectator.
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Figgis, Darrell. Studies and appreciations. Dent, 1912.
260
Flamini, Francesco. Introduction to the study of the Divine Comedy; tr. by Freeman M. Josselyn. Ginn, 1910.
261
Freeman, John. The moderns; essays in literary criticism. Crowell, 1917.
Discerning and readable. — Booklist.
262
Gardner, Edmund Garratt. Dante. (Revision of his Dante primer) Dent, 1923.
263
Garnett, Richard. Essays of an ex-librarian. Heinemann, 1901.
264
Garrod, Heathcote William. Keats. Clarendon, 1926.
Since he is a critic of rich and fine equipment, the result is an essay hardly to be matched in English criticism for accuracy of analysis or completeness of comprehension. —Mark Van Doren.
265
Wordsworth; lectures and essays. Oxford, 1923.
An interesting and valuable book. —John Middleton Murry.
Notable in this that it provides more careful attention to Words worth's own sayings than other studies. —Literary Review.
266
Gay, Robert M. Emerson; a study of the poet as seer. Doubleday, 1928.
267
Glover, Terrot Reaveley. From Pericles to Philip. Mac- millan, 1917.
268
Poets and puritans. 2d ed. Methuen, 1916.
269
Goodell, Thomas Dwight. Athenian tragedy ; a study in pop
ular art. Yale, 1920.
A comprehensive account of the background, conventions, external and internal structure of Greek tragedy and a minutely detailed exposi tion of the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. — Catholic World.
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270
Gosse, Edmund. Questions at issue. Appleton, 1893.
271
Grandgent, Charles Hall. Dante. (Master spirits of liter
ature) Duffield, 1916.
A study of society and politics, church and state, learning and liter ature in Dante's age as depicted in the poet's writings. Authoritative and readable. —Booklist.
272
The ladies of Dante's lyrics. Harvard, 1917.
At first the reader is captivated by the charm of the style and the translation of the lyrics; it is only on reflection that he becomes aware of the masterly interpretation, based on long study of all Dante's work. —Dial.
273
Gum mere, Francis Barton. The beginnings of poetry. Mac-
millan, 1901.
By beginnings are meant the earliest actual appearances of poetry as an element in the social life of man, and not the origins or ultimate causes of poetic expression. — Author.
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The popular ballad. Houghton, 1907.
Gwynn, Stephen. Thomas Moore. (English men of letters)
Macmillan, 1905.