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Edmons A4b.

The Northmen in Cumberland & Westmoreland.

The argument in favor of the Scandinavian character of the district is derived chiefly from the names of places in Cumberland and Westmoreland.

Literary essays.

Goethe and his influence -- The genius of Wordsworth -- Shelley and his poetry -- Mr. Browning -- The poetry of the Old Testament -- Arthur Hugh Clough -- The poetry of Matthew Arnold -- Tennyson -- Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Essays in literary interpretation,/

Some aspects of modern literature -- Personality in literary work -- The significance of modern criticism -- The poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Robert Browning -- John Keats : poet and man -- Some modern readings from Dante -- A word about humour.

The later renaissance,

The later renaissance in Spain.--The Spanish learned poets.--The growth and decadence of the Spanish drama.--Forms of the Spanish drama.--Spanish prose romance.--Spain: historians, miscellaneous writers, and the mystics.--Elizabethan poetry.--The earlier dramatists.--The Elizabethan prose-writers.--France. Poetry of the later renaissance.--French prose-writers of the later sixteenth century.--The later renaissance in Italy.--Conclusion.

Bikure ha-shanah li-shenat he-taṿ-resh-dalet : kolel shirim, mikhtavim u-melitsot le-harim ḳeren ha-Torah u-śefat ḳodesh be-maḥaneh ha-ʻIvrim.

Includes correspondence and poetry of G. I. Polak.

Athens, the violet-crowned,

Athens, the violet-crowned.--Saunterings and suprises.--The Acropolis.--The Eleusinian mysteries.--The story of Dr. Schliemann.--The archæological schools in Athens.--Greek sculpture and philosophy.--Contemporary literature in Greece.--Ethical poetry of Greece.--The charm of Corfu.--The royal family of Greece.--The progress of Greece.--The first century of Greek independence.

Literary essays,

"First edition, 1871."

Literary and philosophical essays : French, German and Italian : with introductions and notes.

Series title on spine: Harvard classics : the five foot shelf of books.

German literature pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets.

Essays in literary interpretation,

Some aspects of modern literature -- Personality in literary work -- The significance of modern criticism -- The poetry of Dante, Gabriel Rossetti -- Robert Browning -- John Keats : poet and man -- Some modern readings from Dante -- A word about humour.

Literary recreations,

The art of biography [printed in the "National review, April 1914]"--Some remarks on Ruskin's style.--The art of indexing.--Fifty years of a literary magazine [written for Jubilee number of the Cornhill (Jan. 1910)]--Literature and modern journalism.--Words and the war.--A study in superlatives.--The poetry of a painter.--The second thoughts of poets.

Essays on Petrarch,

On the love of Petrarch.--On the poetry of Petrarch.--On the character of Petrarch.--A parallel between Dante and Petrarch.--Appendix: I. Specimens of Petrarch's Latin poetry. II. Specimens of Greek amatory poetry, from Sappho down to the writers of the lower empire. III. A theory of Platonic love, by Lorenzo de' Medici. IV. Comparative description of woman's beauty according to Platonic ideas, by the early Italian poets. V. Petrarch's unpublished letters in Italian (with facsimile) VI. A letter, in Latin, of Dante's lately discovered (Epistola "amico florentino") VII. Translations from Petrarch, by Barbarina lady Dacre.

British anthologies /

Includes indexes.

Studies in Tennyson.

First published in 1889 under title: The poetry of Tennyson.