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...unseen by any oblivious Muggles. Back at Hogwarts, the students learn that something called the Triwizard Tournament will take place during the school year, involving competitors from two other magic-training establishments, Beauxbatons Academy and Durmstrang Institute. (Guess, from their names, where those schools are located.) New characters include Alastor (Mad-Eye) Moody, the latest in the series of professors of Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Rita Skeeter, a manipulative reporter for the wizard paper the Daily Prophet...
Skipping over some of the major reading periods in literature, the hellish experience described by Dante, Blake's The Book of Thel, Shelley's Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude, Keats's On First Looking into Chapman's Homer and John Stuart Mill's autobiographical A Crisis in My Mental History, I should like to focus on a particularly important work in the canon of reading period. This is a famous Anglo-Saxon riddle...
...Fuller took as his subject "Alastor" and in his discussion of the subject brought out the question whether Alastor was a mere personification of divine justice or an individual spirit...
...this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, Mr. G. G. Sedgwick will speak on "The Dramatic Technique of "The Suppliants of Aeschylus.'" Professor C. N. Jackson will deliver an address on "Ridicule as a Principle of Action in Greek Literature," and Dr. B. A. G. Fuller will talk on "Alastor." Members of the University are invited to attend...
...Classical Conference. "The Dramatic Technique of "The Suppliants' of Aeschylus," by Mr. G. G. Sedgwick; "Ridicule as a Principle of Action in Greek Literature," by Professor C. N. Jackson; and "Alastor," by Dr. B. A. G. Fuller, in Harvard...