The function of the poet : and other essays /
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Port Washington, N.Y. :
Kennikat Press,
[1967]
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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.