Author: Bertha ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Influence of Solomon Gessner Upon English Literature
Author: Bertha ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Salomon Gessner: His Creative Achievement and Influence
Author: John HibberdPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521212340
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This 1976 book contextualises Salomon Gessner, traces the story of his impact and stresses his significance as a key to the taste of his age.
Theocritus in English Literature
Author: Robert Thomas KerlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
MLN.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
The Emergence of German as a Literary Language 1700-1775
Author: Eric A. BlackallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110760074X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Dr Blackall's 1959 book cuts across the usual distinction between 'literature' and 'linguistics' in the study of modern languages. It sheds light on the eighteenth century and the general movement from seventeenth-century language to ease, pliability and grace, and then to the tremendous literary achievement of the age of Goethe.
Alumnal Record, DePauw University
Author: DePauw UniversityHandbook of Learned Societies and Institutions
Author: James David ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication
Author: Christian Advocate and Journal and Zion's Herald
Author: The Traveller in the Evening - The Last Works of William Blake
Author: Morton D. PaleyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191527815
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
There has never been a book about Blake's last period, from his meeting with John Linnell in 1818 to his death in 1827, although it includes some of his greatest works. In The Traveller in the Evening, Morton Paley argues that this late phase involves attitudes, themes, and ideas that are either distinctively new or different in emphasis from what preceded them. After an introduction on Blake and his milieu during this period, Paley begins with a chapter on Blake's illustrations to Thornton's edition of Virgil. Paley relates these to Blake's complex view of pastoral, before proceeding to a history of the project, its near-abortion, and its fulfillment as one of Blake's greatest accomplishments as an illustrator. In Yah and His Two Sons the presentation of the divine, except where it is associated with art, is ambiguous where it is not negative. Paley takes up this separate plate in the context of artists's representations of the Laocoon that would have been known to Blake, and also of what Blake would have known of its history from classical antiquity to his own time. Blake's Dante water colours and engravings are the most ambitious accomplishment of the last years of his life, and Paley shows that the problematic nature of some of these pictures, with Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car as a main example, arises from Blake's own divided and sharply polarized attitude toward Dante's Comedy. The closing chapter, called 'Blake's Bible', is on the Bible-related designs and writings of Blake's last years. Paley discusses The Death of Abel (addressed to Lord Byron 'in the Wilderness') as a response to its literary forerunners, especially Gessner's Death of Abel and Byron's Cain. For the Job engravings Paley shows how the border designs and the marginal texts set up a dialogue with the main illustrations unlike anything in Blake's Job water colours on the same subjects. Also included here are Blake's last pictorial work on a Biblical subject, The Genesis manuscript, and Blake's last writing on a Biblical text, his vitriolic comments on Thornton's translations of the Lord's Prayer.