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The Future Of Poetry, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Poetry is the most beautiful form of human speech. The human race has always had its song and always will have it. It may not be expected to die out. In our present century, however, its status has altered. There are relatively fewer hearers or readers of it than in the long stretches of the past and fewer noted poets. Professors offer courses in the great poetry of the world, and one hopes that they will continue to do so. Poetry societies exist on campuses in great numbers. Prizes are offered to encourage young poets and avenues of publication opened …

The Role Of The Junior English Schools In The Development Of The Drama, Roger T. Jones

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Sources Of Democracy: A Study In The Meaning And Idea Of Democracy In The Works Of Walt Whitman, Frances R. Paine

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Indian Place-Names In Mississippi., Lea Leslie Seale

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

The Influence Of Cicero On Edmund Burke, Richard Paul Cramer

Bachelors’ Theses

Much has been written concerning the great orators of various ages, especially in regard to their style, ideas, originality, political sympathies and the influence of the orator on the literature of hie age; but, strange as it may seem, nothing has ever been written concerning the relative merits of two of the greatest orators that the world has ever known. The two men that I refer to are Marcus Tullius Cicero and Edmund Burke. Cicero must be recognized by the entire world as being the first and foremost orator in the world, while Burke is acknowledged the foremost orator in …

Vernon Lee's Letters, Vernon Lee (Violet Paget)

Vernon Lee: Manuscripts, Published Works, and Typescripts

Contents

Preface: p.i
Letters to her Father, 1870: p.1
Letters to Mrs. Jenkin, 1871-8: p.19
Letters Home, 1881-94: p.60

Elizabethan Left-Overs In Allen County, Alfred Dalton

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study of the Elizabethan influences remaining in the spoken language of the people of Allen County, Kentucky, is an outgrowth of discussion in the English classes of Dr. Gordon Wilson, Western Kentucky State Teachers College, concerning the folklore of the present-day rural people of Kentucky. I have endeavored to give a true picture of the picturesque language of the farming people as they go about their every-day business of making a living, with particular emphasis upon those words and usages that are no longer considered in good use.

Literature In The Primary Grades, Anna L. Strong

Bachelors’ Theses

Reading is the most important subject in the curriculum. It is the most fundamental because nearly all of the other subjects depend upon it's a source of information and classification. "Reading is a tool by which subject matter in all fields is interpreted and experienced."

By means of reading the pupil can extend his experience away from his immediate environment and gather the interesting information and vital facts, that provide the settings and the backgrounds needed for interpretation and for constructive thinking in all the varied fields of human endeavor. "Reading is the key that unlocks the great storehouse of …

Variants From Standard-French Common To The Dialects Of Lafayette Parish And Canada., Marie Nina Bechet Pirkle

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

The Birth And Growth Of Indo-Anglian Literature And Its Contributions To English Literature, Marie O'Loughlin

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Western civilization has been influenced by Indian thought in two ways - one through the Greeks, and the other through modern English scholarship. The former has affected us but slightly, being the result of oral interchange, rather than of immediate literary borrowing, - thus passing only indirectly into our system. The latter is reacting upon English literature today in a manner and to an extent which seems not to have been fully realized by either the East or the West.

India still remains the western world something of a mystery, a succession of romantic and gorgeous pictures, or a fantastic …

The Dictionary, Florence Thompson

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis is to show the value of the dictionary in the schoolroom; its history, uses and general adaptation.

Extensions Of Usage Of A Pronoun, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

[This article treats briefly, in the chronology of their appearance, the substantive uses of the pronoun of the third person neuter: the English and American game usage, two American colloquial or dialectal usages, and the newest usage, emerging from Hollywood, with its adjectival and nominal derivatives.]

The English pronoun of the third person neuter, it, has established itself as a substantive in various meanings, some of which are so widely current as to augur for them considerable vitality. An enumeration of these substantive uses in American English yields the following-- approximately, I think, in the order of their appearance.

Aspects Of Pre-Civil War Historical Drama, Elizabeth Ernestine Coles

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

This thesis is an attempt to present in a general way some aspects of the pre-Civil War historical drama. The plays chosen cover the years from 1766-1830 inclusive. Arthur Hobson Quinn and Montrose J. Moses, writers on early American drama, have endeavored to treat the entire field in its social, political, historical, and economical aspects. I have limited my attempt to the historical phase in which there are at least five distinct groups. The following topical analysis of the plays I have used will present these more clearly.

The History Of The Evolution Of Shorthand, Selma O. Preuss

Bachelors’ Theses

One manifestation of man's superiority over the rest of the animal kingdom consists in the power of communicating thought by means of speech. At first when all mankind dwelt together, a spoken language was sufficient to meet the demands. When, however, the human race began to disperse over the earth, another means of communication was found necessary. Consequently, the art of writing was introduced, crude at first, but gaining in ease, grace, and speed through the ages, until it reached the acme of its perfection. To the literary art the whole commonwealth of other arts must bow down am resign …

The Development Of English Grammar From 1750 To 1929, Helen Kathryn Walsh

Bachelors’ Theses

For some time I have been interested in the subject of Grammar. A generation ago, it was considered one of the most important subjects in the elementary schools. But now, grammar is a thing one teaches only incidentally. What has brought this change? What is the situation to-day? What may we hope for in the future? These are some of the questions which need to be answered. The pendulum has indeed swung far out into empty space. It surely must return. Will we be able to stop it midway in its course?

The Etymology Of An English Expletive, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Professor G. P. Krapp makes an attractive case for his derivation of darn, darned in the brief essay on this word in his recent The English Language in America. He discards the usual explanation that darn is a variant or minced form of damn, and believes that, although it now stands in intimate relation to damn, it had an independent origin. He takes as his starting point the Old English adjective dierne, 'secret,' Middle English derne, Elizabethan dern, and assumes a transition from a descriptive adjective or adverb to an imprecation. The adjective took …

The Relation Of Painting To Poetry With Reference To The Works Of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Helen Marie Friar

Bachelors’ Theses

Art may be defined as the adequate and harmonious expression of some phase of man's life in true relation to the whole. Architecture, sculpture, painting, music and poetry are the five principal five arts. Each of these fulfills its own function and in addition is united with the others in a common bond through the pleasure which is their aim.

The Value Of English Linguistics To The Teacher, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

WHAT is included in the usual course in the history of the English language? Presumably some teachers emphasize the translation of older monuments, some emphasize training in etymologies, some phonetic changes, and some changes in language structure and forms. Some offer courses in the hope of fostering a more accurate use of language, some because of the discipline ~o be gained from the study of language ID the abstract, and some in order to afford the necessary preparation for the scholar. All have in mind the development, on the part of the student, of a scientific attitude toward language. Any …

The Kraze For "K", Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

As illustrated by the Klassy Klown and the Kute Kid, the present slump toward alliteration is mostly confined to the letter "k," and the hunting of it appears most prominently in the language of advertising. For "k" in poetry there was Coleridge's (one is tempted to write Koleridge's) "Kubla Khan," and one recalls Walt Whitman's picturesque respellings "Kanada" and "Kanadian." But love of "k" plays little part in comtemporary verse, although it appears abundantly elsewhere. Its rise in favor seems to be bound up with the late agitation for simplified spelling, or the oncoming tide of interest in phonetics. Simplified …

The Orion, Volume 7, Issue 4, Lanier Literary Society, The Orion Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The March 1923 edition of the Anderson College journal of literature, The Orion.

The names of the known editors for the Lantern Literary Society's issue of The Orion were Gladys Atkinson, Virginia Cowherd, Alice Pope Harris, Lula Lee Leathers, Bessie V. Jones, Lydia Burriss, Martha White, May Bell Barnhill, Bonte Phillips, Kathleen Foster, Marjorie England, Caroline Parnell, Bobbie Phillips, Malvina Hopper, and Babbie Sullivan.

Indefinite Composites And Word-Coinage, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Recognition of ‘blending' as a mode of word-formation, the telescoping of two or more words into one, as it were, or the superposition of one word upon another, is not new among etymologists, although the subject has never been given separate or very elaborate treatment. Some instances of these factitious amalgam forms, the 'portmanteau words' of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, the blend or fusion forms of etymologists or lexicographers, are dumbfound from dumb and confound, dang from damn and hang, gerrymander from Elbridge Gerry and salamander, electrocute from electric and execute; probably boost from boom and hoist, …

On The Comparison Of Adverbs In English In The Fourteenth Century, Alma Hosic

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

The following investigation deals with the comparison of adverbs in English in the fourteenth century. This century seems especially important in the history of adverb comparison, since it represents the close of the dialectal period and the beginning of the transition period from Middle to Modern English. A chief purpose has been to connect the adverbial forms of the fourteenth century with those of the preceding and following centuries.

Examples are very full but not exhaustive. The majority of the important literary monuments of the century have been examined. The examples, however, are fuller for the Northern and Midland than …