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Chaucer has given us an array of femininity unsurpassed by any other poet. From every walk in life he drew his heroines and in every conceivable color he painted them. . . . A comprehensive study of all of Chaucer's ...
Chaucer and Morris as Narrative Poets: As Determined Chiefly from The Canterbury Tales and The Earthly Paradise
The aim of this paper is to treat the most prominent points of similarity and difference in these two narrative poets. The study will be based almost entirely on the masterpieces of the two poets, the Canterbury Tales and ...
Four Great Elegies of the English Language: The Book of the Duchess, Lycidas, In Memoriam, and Adonais; A Comparison and Study
. . . Having thus considered the general nature and something of the background of the elegy, let us enter upon I a more direct consideration of the four particular examples which we have taken as representing the ...
The Cardboard Sublime: Novella and Postscript
Aristotle claimed that the purpose of art is to delight and to instruct. In dealing with the latter, it is necessary to consider the virtues advocated by a work of literature. At first glance of the opening chapters, it ...
The Influence of Darwin's Origin of the Species on English Literature
In the study of five important writers of prose as well as verse in the Victorian Age, we can see how the impact of Evolution was reflected in literature. The work of Da rwin, especially with its connotations on man (we ...
The Story of Cleopatra in English Literature
Perhaps no story is better known than the story of Cleopatra. Even the ordinary child would have a pretty definite idea of beauty if someone would say to him that such and such a girl is as beautiful as Cleopatra. In spite ...
Louis Marshall, M. D.: His Administration as President of Washington College
Louis Marshall was not a great educator, and probably deserved his obscurity. As an unrepentant individualist he is an interesting study. As a representative of personalized education, which was becoming unfashionable in ...
Ordinary Sins
I chose to write Ordinary Sins as short stories rather than a novel, but also made the decision to deny the reader any central narration. The opening story introduces readers to the four central characters: Andy, Linda, ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Balance of Power: A Woman's Quest
Although she has been criticized for her overwrought sentimentality and elaborate romance, Harriet Beecher Stowe has been acknowledged as one of the most popular writers, male or female of the nineteenth century. Stowe ...
The Serpentine Idol: Worme Imagery in Book I of Spenser's Faerie Queene and John Donne's Funeral Sermons
In this Thesis, I will not speculate about what English literature would have looked like if Donne's poem had superceded The Faerie Queene, but I will investigate the topic of immediacy through an analysis of the worme ...