Methods and aims in the study of literature : a series of extracts and illustrations /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, Lane, 1875-1959 (Adapter, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1940.
Series:Cornell studies in English ; 31.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • I: ON METHOD IN GENERAL. Milton on discipline
  • Art equals method
  • John Burnet on Aristotle and method
  • Shedd on methodology
  • Herbert Spencer on the relation of art to science
  • Leonardo da Vinci on method in the art of painting
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds on method
  • Kenyon Cox on design in painting
  • Sir Frederick Pollock on personality and method
  • Shaler on the method of Agassiz
  • The method of John Sherren Brewer.
  • II: ON METHOD IN THE STUDY OF LITERATURE. Leigh Hunt on reconstructing the spirit of the past
  • August Boeckh on interpretation and criticism as the two distinct functions in the study of the past
  • Professor [Albert S.] Cook's adaptation of Boeckh to the study of a particular masterpiece
  • Boeckh on the relation of encyclopaedia [i.e. encyclopedia] to methodology
  • Methods and aims in the study of literature : opinions from two poets [Wordsworth and Coleridge].
  • III: EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF WORDSWORTH ON THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF POETRY. Wordsworth to R.P. Gillies
  • Wordsworth to William Rowan Hamilton
  • Wordsworth to William Rowan Hamilton
  • Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale
  • Wordsworth to William Rowan Hamilton.
  • IV: ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE PRACTICE OF GREAT WRITERS IN COMPOSING. Professor Lockwood on Milton's corrections of the minor poems
  • Horace
  • Ben Jonson on Shakespeare
  • Ben Jonson on style
  • Samuel Johnson
  • Rousseau
  • Gilman on Coleridge
  • Coleridge
  • Wordsworth, as seen by his sister
  • De Quincey
  • Cardinal Newman
  • Charles Lamb
  • Manzoni
  • Tennyson
  • Stevenson
  • Lafcadio Hearn
  • Jowett
  • Balzac.
  • V: ON THE STUDIES OF POETS. A glance at Wordsworth's reading
  • [William] Minto on Robert Burns
  • Byron's early reading
  • Spenser's use of books
  • Shakespeare's books
  • An illustration of Shakespeare's use of books
  • Milton's plans and studies for Paradise Lost
  • Milton's account of his own education.
  • VI: METHOD IN THE POETRY OF LOVE
  • WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. Browning
  • The method of the troubadours
  • A method of study suggested by the practice of Dante
  • On the structure of the Vita nuova
  • Some of the topics discussed by Dante in his treatise De vulgari eloquentia
  • The method of Petrarch
  • The method of George Herbert
  • George Herbert : Love unknown
  • Socrates on the principles of composition
  • The method of Agathon in the Symposium of Plato
  • Diotima explains the method of artistic education to Socrates
  • Wordsworth on love and reason
  • The thirtieth chapter of First Corinthians.