The function of the poet : and other essays /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
Other Authors: Mordell, Albert, 1885-1965
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press, [1967]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The function of the poet
  • Humor, wit, fun, and satire
  • The five indispensable authors (Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Shakespeare)
  • The imagination
  • Critical fragments
  • Henry James: James' 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. Snowbound: a winter idyl
  • Poetry and nationality
  • W. D. Howells: Venetian life
  • Edgar A. Poe
  • Thackeray: Roundabout papers
  • Swift: Forster's life of Swift
  • Plutarch's morals
  • A plea for freedom from speech and figures of speech-makers.