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Ellen Glasgow's Virginia : The Background Of Her Novels, Ruth Jones Wilkins

Master's Theses

Ellen Glasgow's native state, the Commonwealth of Virginia, was a constituent portion of her. "I am Virginian in every drop of my blood and pulse of my heart...," she said. With her Virginia she wove a rich background for her novels. At times the cloth was homespun like the background of the Burrs in THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE; at other times it was of a finer texture as in VIRGINIA; yet again it was a rich tapestry for people like the Archibalds in THE SHELTERED LIFE.

Ellen Glasgow has contributed to world literature, in polished, exquisite form, an unbiased …

From Limbo To The World Of Light : An Examination Of The Novels Of Aldous Huxley, Walter A. Bass

Master's Theses

The line between literature and philosophy is not sharply defined, and it is never quite certain where one leaves off end the other begins. It is possible to avoid the problem altogether, if it is a problem. The Critique of Pure Reason is convincing proof that literary considerations may be avoided entirely in philosophic writing. Poe championed the other extreme, but the isolation of literature has not often been successful, and on the whole, it is perhaps justifiable to claim that literature must be a criticism of life; that is, it must have philosophic content.

From the critical point of …

The Travels Of Lord Byron, Maxwell Rock Schools

Master's Theses

It is the purpose of this work to present a concise manner the record of the travels of Lord Byron. His travels are the most important part of his life, because he spent the major part of his adult life in foreign lands, and his journeys are responsible for his great poetic creations.

Thomas Hood : Poet, Social Thinker, Comedian, Ernest W. Mooney Jr

Master's Theses

Although Thomas Hood lived an uneventful and somewhat undramatic life, it was not entirely fruitless. His unparalleled misfortune in health and economy was scarcely offset by a felicitous family life; but his poetry--some inane, some mediocre, some excellent--balanced an otherwise pathetic existence. There has been no conscious attempt in this paper to present Thomas as an undiscovered genius. His works and his life have been evaluated for their peculiar merit alone, but a study of those has revealed points hitherto vague and misunderstood as well as forgotten.

As a writer of unmitigated fun, Thomas Hood is hardly excelled. Where he …

A Comparison Of Walt Whitman And Carl Sandburg, Henrietta Sadler

Master's Theses

Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg - two men from different sections of the country, from different centuries - have captured the heart of life. They have sung bravely the songs which guide men to the best of life. They saw the good in the evil, and they were willing to accept the evil so that they might have its good. But they were not content to lot the evil remain - the evil of man's inhumanity to man must be abolished. The two poets have taken the powerful medium of poetry and with steady words and strong sentences they have …

Political Pamphleteers Of Pre-Revolutionary Virginia, 1750-1775, Mary Thompson Clary

Master's Theses

Available material tor the study of the political pamphlet literature of Virginia during the quarter century preceding the Revolution are considerably scattered due, in part, to the fact that the Library of Congress has stored for the duration of the war many rare items of its collections.

De Quincey And The Lake Poets, Samuel Abraham Cohen

Master's Theses

I feel that an investigation into the friend­ ships between each of the Lake Poets and DeQuincey is worthwhile. The intercourse of these great personalities and the effects they produced on one another are sources of valuable information . It will be the object of this study to present the personal and social lives of the Lake Poets and their devotee, with a view of finding contributions and detractions made to each other by this association.

Ambrose Bierce, Walter Richardson Hudgins

Master's Theses

While Bierce is not a great writer, when compared with the really great, he has a peculiar fascination for a select group of readers. And his fame will live more by change than by any general public acclaim. Like many others, I first became acquainted with him purely by accident. Since then I have come to know him better through desire.

Of the scores of people I have asked to give their reaction to Bierce, scacely more than a half dozen professed any knowledge that such a person ever existed. This much I noticed: All of the people who knew …

The Element Of Experience In The Poetry Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bernard Marshall White-Hurst

Master's Theses

Coleridge is generally recognized as a highly imaginative poet. Students are too prone therefore to regard his poetry as directly the product of his active imagination. It is the object of this study to show instead that his poetry is based largely upon his actual experiences. I have attempted to demonstrate this fact by giving supply the facts of Coleridge's life, as fully in detail as I have been able to ascertain them, and by correlating them with certain references and materials in his poems. The selections have been grouped according to biographical chronology rather than sequences of composition, which …

Thomas Edward Brown's Narrative Poetry, Kenneth Reynders Erfft

Master's Theses

This thesis presents a study ot the narrative poetry of Thomas Edward Brown. A sincere effort has been made to keep the original aspects of the study free from those prejudices which spring from an admiration for a writer like Brown. My aim has bean to stress those aspect of Brawn's narrative work upon which he claim or distinction as a writer or narrative poetry depend.