Methods and aims in the study of literature : a series of extracts and illustrations /
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1940.
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| Series: | Cornell studies in English ;
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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.