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The Life And Poetry Of Francois Villon, Austin E. Fife

Faculty Honor Lectures

The highest hope of the teacher of literature is to illuminate life in the flame of experience : not in the sense th at hi story repeats itself, but rath er th at particul ar significance can be given to the here and now when it is experienced through minds with uniquely true sight.

One such mind is that of the fift eenth century French poet, Fran<;ois Villon. He sought out life with all his senses . He examined human experience with all his strength of vi sion, never once burying his head in the sands of wishful thinking because what he saw was beyond endurance. Though writing in the fourteen-hundreds he has been called "modern." We might say that he is great because his vi sion transcends time: th at he is "modern" because he is timeless . Perhaps this is because he pits the precious and fragile continuum of life again st the static nihili sm of death, than which even the most degraded life is preferable.

This lecture is not one for expert s on the fiftee nth-century with a special interest in Villon. R ather it is a literature teacher's effort to concentrate in one fifty-minute capsule the …

Chaucer's Criseyde: Portrait Of Woman, Nancy Joan Faulkner

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of Antonin Artuad's Play Les Cenci, Anne-Marie Denes

English Language and Literature ETDs

The purpose of this paper is to present a historical and critical introduction to Antonin Artaud’s play Les Cenci (1935). The first part of the paper will consist, therefore, of a comparative study of four versions of the story of Beatrice Cenci (1577-1599) and her family. One is the historical account as related by John Addington Symonds in his book Renaissance in Italy. The second is the legendary account as it emerges from Stendhal’s translation from an old Italian chronicle dated, according to Stendhal, September 14, 1499 – three days after Beatrice’s execution. The third is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s tragedy …

Letter, Bob Foster

Tolkien Journal

No abstract provided.

Editorial, Dick Plotz

Tolkien Journal

No abstract provided.

Samwise—Halfwise? Or Who Is The Hero Of The Lord Of The Rings?, Jan Wojcik S.J.

Tolkien Journal

Considers Sam the true hero of The Lord of the Rings; shows him to be the “focal point of two main motifs [...]: friendship and gifts,” and suggests using the description of eucatastrophe from “On Fairy-stories” to judge Sam’s development as a hero.

The Elder Ages And The Later Glaciations Of The Pleistocene Epoch, Margaret M. Howes

Tolkien Journal

No abstract provided.

Ivy Leaves 7, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The Spring 1967 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Danny Byron Collins, Tinka White, Connie Mahaffey, Kathleen Inabinet, Len Farmer, Dick Madden, Hank Roberts, Donna Albertson, Mildred King Bearden, Faye P. Cowan, R.S. Moore, Marietta McCown, W.F. West, Jr., Jerome D. Wilson, and Edward P. Vandiver, Jr. Cover art by Kathleen Inabinet.

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

Marlowe's Cosmology, William H. Caldwell

Master's Theses

A general study of Marlowe 's cosmology may by no means be original, for numerous critics have mentioned the subject in varying degrees; however, there is a wide disparity or opinion concerning the relative importance of the subject in relation to the playwright. This study is not exhaustive; it is significant, however, because it attempts to prove by means of biographical and historical backgrounds the idea that Mar­lowe had an intellect that was always "climbing after knowledge infin­ite."

In this study there are two obvious omissions: the plays Dido, Queen of Carthage, and The Massacre at Paris. …

Herbert's Household Imagery, Christina Hillquist Halsted

Master's Theses

The apparent simplicity of George Herbert's poetry has caused much comment and much misunderstanding of both the man and his poetry. The popular nineteenth-century picture of Herbert as the simple, tranquil country priest is being discarded, however, as twentieth-century scholars of metaphysical poetry re-exa mine both the works and life of George Herbert and find little simple about his life and a magnificent craftsmanship in his poetry.

Both the simplicity and the depth of Herbert's poetry lie in his imagery, in which concrete everyday objects and actions become high abstractions usually difficult to express. Of course, the presentation of abstractions …

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Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Authorship Of Some Unidentified Or Disputed Articles In Blackwood's Magazine, Brian M. Murray

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Sir Walter Scott As Historical Novelist: Part Iii, James Anderson

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Principles And Perspective In Jeffrey's Criticism, Peter F. Morgan

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

A Bibliography Of The Scottish Ballad Manuscripts 1730-1825: Part Iii, William Montgomerie

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Mackenzie And Goethe: Two "Men Of Feeling" On Suicide, Wallace H. Johnson

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Elgin W. Mellown. Bibliography Of The Writings Of Edwin Muir. University, Ala. University Of Alabama Press. 1964. 139 Pp. $5.95. Rev. Ed. London. Nicholas Vane, 1966. 144 Pp. 50 Shillings., W. R. Aitken

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Taill Of Rauf Coilyear Printed By Robert Lekpreuik At St. Andrews In 1572: A Facsimile Of The Only Known Copy. With A Bibliographical Note By William Beattie. Edinburgh. The National Library Of Scotland. 1966. Xii + 32 Pp. 25 Shillings., David F. C. Coldwell

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Duncan Glen. Hugh Mcdiarmid And The Scottish Renaissance. Edinburgh & London. W. & R. Chambers Ltd. 1964. 294 Pp. 37 S. 6 D., Louis Simpson

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

J. F. And T. M. Flett. Traditional Dancing In Scotland.With An Appendix Dancing In Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia By F. Rhodes. Nashville, Tenn. Vanderbilt University Press. 1966. Ix + 313 Pp. $8.95., Jean J. Mclellan

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Bloomsbury Group: Agent Of Evolution, Rashelle Altschul

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

The Family Tree Of Fanny Burney's Evelina, Frances Mcentee Martin

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

The Eighteenth Century Background Of Canto Iv Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Dorothy Cox Moore

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

Seventeenth-Century Versions Of Christis Kirk On The Grene And The Wyf Of Awchtirmwchty, Janet M. Templeton

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Francis Collinson. The Traditional And National Music Of Scotland. Nashville, Tenn. Vanderbilt University Press. 1966. Xvii + 294 Pp. $8.95., Thomas Messenger

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Art Of Living: A Preliminary Investigation Of Dr. Johnson's Attitude Toward Learning, Involving Primarily The Rambler, The Idler, And The Adventurer., Nancy C. Cotton

English Language and Literature ETDs

In the Rambler, more than in the Idler and the Adventurer, Dr. Johnson continually recurs to the subject of learning. If he does not devote an entire essay to an aspect of learning, he may use an exemplary man of letters or a scholarly allusion to illustrate another unrelated subject. Profuse and disparate as these essays and illus­trations are, there is enough material to theorize constructively about Johnson's attitude toward learning. This is very often that of an eighteenth-century religious humanist and a moral satirist. He sees the necessity for a revivification of the traditional ideals of learning, those of …

Gestalten, Layeh A. Bock

English Language and Literature ETDs

Four years ago I found myself ready to begin writing poetry. Like Denise Levertov, who once described herself in retrospect as “twenty-four-going-on-sixteen,” I was a late budder, (The few bits of scribbling I have left from earlier years are ample proof that my late start was the best course for me.) Charles Tomlinson was teaching an "advanced creative writing course" in poetry at the University of New Mexico at that time, and I studied with him. The following year, I was able to study under Robert Creeley in a course with the same title and number. I feel very lucky …

The Depression Years As Depicted By The American Theatre In The 1930'S, Lois Robinson

Honors Theses

The purpose of this paper is to show how various plays written in the 1930's reflected economic, political, religious, social, psychological, moral and ethical attitudes of the depression years. To achieve this and, the writer gathered material from the ten Pulitzer Prize winning plays of the 1930's, as well as other significant works of the decade as mentioned in secondary sources. No effort has been made to fit these plays into the time in which they were written. Instead, the writer has attempted to show the times as they were presented by the dramatists of the thirties.

Good And Evil In The Lord Of The Rings, W. H. Auden

Tolkien Journal

Explores the interplay of good and evil in the story through the actions and motivations of species “capable of speech and therefore of moral reasoning,” and praises Tolkien for creating characters with a realistic moral balance. Makes the important observation that good characters can imagine being evil while evil characters cannot imagine being good. (Note that this piece is pre-Silmarillion and Auden’s assessment of the Elves is based only on LotR.) Reprinted in Critical Quarterly 10 (1968):138–42.