| | 242 | Author: | Duffield, Samuel W. | Add | | | Title: | The Writings of George MacDonald  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN something less than three years we have become acquainted
with a new name in literature. It has drifted to us across the
Atlantic, and with it has come a vague hint of a personality
whereof in future we may know more. The works of this hand and
brain are mainly in a poetical prose, with an occasional relapse
into verse. His books sell largely, and he is better known as "the
author of Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood" than as George
MacDonald. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 245 | Author: | Himes, John A. | Add | | | Title: | Milton's Angels | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN an article on the Plan of Paradise Lost, published in
this periodical, March, 1883, the writer had occasion to speak of
certain characteristics of Milton's supernatural beings. A systematic
account of these beings did not come within the scope of that paper,
but the interest of the subject may perhaps make its separate
treatment from a new standpoint not unwelcome. Other writers have
considered Milton's angels mainly as products of literary art; I wish
to examine them as products of thought, giving attention to the inner
meaning rather than to the outward form. Convinced that there has
already been too much unintelligent criticism, I venture upon the far
more difficult and in some respects perilous task of interpretation.
With little to say about the soundness or the propriety of the poet's
methods and opinions, I shall content myself with inquiring what they
are. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 246 | Author: | Himes, John A. | Add | | | Title: | The Plan of Paradise Lost | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN all the attempts to trace the origin of Paradise Lost to
the Caedmon, to Andreini, to Grotius, to Du Bartas, and to a score of
others, no claim, so far as I am aware, has been advanced to having
found in any, or in all, of them the entire plan upon which Milton
worked and which he filled out. Caedmon is said to have helped here,
Andreini there, and Du Bartas in a third place, but no one of them and
not all of them together give in any just sense an explanation of the
existence of the great English epic. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 255 | Author: | Lawrence, D. H. | Add | | | Title: | Rex | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SINCE every family has its black sheep, it almost follows that
every man must have a sooty uncle. Lucky if he hasn't two.
However, it is only with my mother's brother that we are concerned.
She had loved him dearly when he was a little blond boy. When
he grew up black, she was always vowing she would never speak to
him again. Yet when he put in an appearance, after years of absence,
she invariably received him in a festive mood, and was even
flirty with him. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 256 | Author: | Lippmann, Walter | Add | | | Title: | An Open Mind: William James | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WITHIN a week of the death of
Professor William James of Harvard
University, the newspapers
had it that Mr. M. S. Ayer of Boston
had received a message from his spirit.
This news item provoked the ridicule of
the people who don't believe in ghosts,
but the joke was on Mr. Ayer of Boston.
When, however, it was reported that
Professor James himself had agreed to
communicate with this world, if he could,
and, in order to test the reports, had left
a sealed message to be opened at a certain
definite time after his death, the incredulous
gasped at the professor's amazing "credulity." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 257 | Author: | London, Jack | Add | | | Title: | The Scab | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN a competitive society, where men
struggle with one another for food and
shelter, what is more natural than that
generosity, when it diminishes the food
and shelter of men other than he who
is generous, should be held an accursed
thing? Wise old saws to the contrary,
he who takes from a man's purse takes
from his existence. To strike at a man's
food and shelter is to strike at his life,
and in a society organized on a tooth-and-nail basis, such an act, performed
though it may be under the guise of
generosity, is none the less menacing
and terrible. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 260 | Author: | Lowell, Amy | Add | | | Title: | Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | When the Goose Moon rose and walked upon a pale sky, and water made a
noise once more beneath the ice on the river, his heart was sick
with longing for the great good of the sun. One Winter again had
passed, one Winter like the last. A long sea with waves biting each
other under grey clouds, a shroud of snow from ocean to forest,
snow mumbling stories of bones and driftwood beyond his red fire.
He desired space, light; he cried to himself about himself, he made
songs of sorrow and wept in the corner of his house. He gave his
children toys to keep them away from him. His eyes were dim
following the thin sun. He said to his wife: "I want that sun. Some
day I shall go to see it." And she said: "Peace, be still. You will
wake the children." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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