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...Arthurian Romance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEIRCE PAPERS ONE OF VOLUMES PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY PRESS NOW | 3/25/1932 | See Source »

...Gliglois", a French Arthurian Romance of the Thirteenth Century, in an important study in old French Literature. The unique original manuscript was burned in the fire which swept the National Library of Turin in 1904. Fortunately the late Wendelin Foerster had made a transcript of it, which Harvard acquired upon his death in 1915. On the basis of this material C. H. Livingston of Bowdoin Colleges has edited this book, which is the eighth in a series of Harvard studies in Romance Languages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEIRCE PAPERS ONE OF VOLUMES PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY PRESS NOW | 3/25/1932 | See Source »

...Spenser and the Table Round", by C. B. Millican is the eighth volume in Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature Queen Elizabeth and all the Tudors were so much interested in their Welsh descent, and all that it implied, that it was almost inevitable for Spenser to use the Arthurian legend in a poem which glorified his sovereign on the basis of national legend. During her reign Arthurian interests were abundant, and those interests were abundant, and those interested in the backgrounds and sources of English poetry will find little-known treasures of British folk-lore and myth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEIRCE PAPERS ONE OF VOLUMES PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY PRESS NOW | 3/25/1932 | See Source »

...range is wide; Arthurian legend, Horatian odes, sonnets in accepted tradition, lyrics in free form make up the bulk of it. Robert Hillyer in a foreword speaks of the author's "delicacy of feeling and multiplicity of interests," and of a "technique which was already a performance." "The Dunes" shows his skilful handling of a difficult metre, the translations show that he could catch with accuracy the spirit of the original. One of the translations of Horace, that of the Second Epode, was awarded the Sargent Prize...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...honest to sell his firm's questionable bonds or to wink at his town's zoning law (he had been made mayor) or to turn a penny for himself. This last act of nobility loses him his job. Meantime, Preacher Pollock has introduced a number of Arthurian pantomimes which dress up his insignificant hero's and heroine's deeds, allegorically picturing Archibald and Jennifer as defending their little castle's integrity, keeping the house beautiful. When they both die, their reward is in having produced a son who is very honorable, too, only he makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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