Collected essays of W.P. Ker / edited with an introduction by Charles Whibley.

Author/creator Ker, W. P.
Other author Whibley, Charles, 1859-1930.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Macmillan and Co., limited, 1925.
Description2 volumes : frontispiece (portrait) ; 21 cm
Subjects
Literature--History and criticism.

Contents v. 1. Introduction by Charles Whibley. The Elizabethan voyagers. Dryden. The eighteenth century. Thomas Wharton. Horace Walpole. The politics of Burns. Joseph Ritson. Sir Walter Scott. Sir Walter Scott's Scotland. Quentin Durward; St. Ronan's well. Byron. Keats. Hazlitt. Tennyson. Browning. Essays in romantic literature. "Divina comedia." Italian romance: Boiardo. Tasso. Molière.--v. 2. Pascal. Spanish and English ballads. Don Quixote. The Spanish story of the Armada. On the Danish ballads, I-II. Iceland and the humanities. The early historians of Norway. Gudmund Arason. Sturla the historian. Jón Arason. Jacob Grimm. On the philosophy of art. Imagination and judgment. On the philosophy of history. Allegory and myth. Romance. On the value of the terms "Classical" and "Romantic" as applied to literature. The humanist ideal.
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