Word: byronical
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...entirely new edition of the works of Lord Byron is announced by Macmillan and Co. It will be edited by Mr. W. E. Henley and will include, beside the complete poetical works, the letters of Byron, public and private, which with their spirit and ease and charm are usually admitted to be among the best of English letters. This edition, which will be in ten volumes, will present for the first time since the seventeen-volume edition of 1833, long since out of print, a fitting shrine for the works of one of the greatest poets of the century...
...boards for 1895-96: For Harvard College, Le Baron R. Briggs (dean), George A. Bartlett, Frederic C. de Sumichrast, John Williams White, Josiah Royce, Phillippe B. Marcou, Charles Gross, Hugo K. Schiling, Morris H. Morgan, Albert A. Howard, Edward Cummings, Joseph Torrey, Jr., William F. Osgood, George P. Baker, Byron S. Hurlbut, Charles B. Davenport; for the Graduate School, James Mills Peirce (dean), Clement L. Smith, William G. Farlow, Charles L. Jackson. Edward L. Mark, Benjamin O. Peirce, Hans C. G. von Jagemann, Edward Channing, William J. Ashley, George L. Kittredge; for the Lawrence Scientific School, Nathaniel S. Shaler (dean...
...general correspondence from those of the intelligence bureau. Recognizing this fact the Corporation at their last meeting created two new offices in the place of the old office of Secretary, namely those of Corresponding Secretary and Recording Secretary. Mr. Cobb has been appointed to the former office and Mr. Byron S. Hurlbut to the latter. Mr. Cobb will retain charge of the general correspondence before attended to by the Secretary. Mr. Hurlbut will take up the employment bureau work which will be carried on more effectively and systematically than has been possible hitherto, and in addition will act as recording...
...destruction of the Byron Memoirs justifiable...
Both Tennyson and Browning, Mr. Copeland said, have done more than express the feeling of the moment. They have expressed the poetic feeling of the second half of the nineteenth century, just as Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Coleridge have done for the first half. From a standpoint of substance, rather than of form, Tennyson and Browning stand at opposite poles. Tennyson represents the spirit of science and law, while Browning represents the individual having his own way in spite of the law. In neither of them can we find the observation of nature and sympathy with it that Wordsworth...