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"Living Words": Samuel Taylor Coleridge And The Genesis Of The Oed, James C. Mckusick
"Living Words": Samuel Taylor Coleridge And The Genesis Of The Oed, James C. Mckusick
English Faculty Publications
Today we are at a crucial moment in the evolution of the Oxford English Dictionary, as the dog-eared volumes are withdrawn from library shelves and replaced by the sleek second edition of 1989. This new OED bears witness to the continuing relevance and utility of the "New English Dictionary on Historical Principles" for the current generation of literary scholars. The event of its publication provides an opportunity for a fresh historical perspective on the circumstances surrounding the production of the original OED, which was published between 1884 and 1928 in a series of 125 fascicles and bound up into those …
The Politics Of Language In Byron's The Island, James C. Mckusick
The Politics Of Language In Byron's The Island, James C. Mckusick
English Faculty Publications
Byron's late poem The Island: or, Christian and His Comrades (1823) has not proven especially congenial to modern sensibility; relatively little has been written about it, and most critics have tended to dismiss it as a regrettable episode in the Romantic idealization of the Noble Savage .