The moral mission of literature and other essays /
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Manchester, N. H. :
Magnificat Press,
1939.
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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.