The moral mission of literature and other essays /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Confrey, Burton, 1898-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester, N. H. : Magnificat Press, 1939.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The moral mission of literature
  • The perennial opposition to the classics
  • Reading modern fiction
  • Appreciating the lyric
  • Crashaw's religious background
  • His divine epigrams
  • His tribute to the "undaunted daughter of desires"
  • A spiritual tragedy (Browning's "Andrea del Sarto")--Froissart's Chronicles and the poems of William Morris
  • The flowering of Noyes' romanticism
  • The great epic and variations of the epic type
  • Beowulf: pattern for a young prince
  • Enjoying poetry
  • The compensation of verse
  • Shakespeare's master-piece (Lear)--Hamlet on college level
  • Appraising our age and our time (Browning's "Caliban upon Setebos")--The crusade against bad reading matter.