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...conception of Chaucer as 'the most modern of English poets and one of the most popular.' The style is that of a lecturer, lively at times almost colloquial, but always full of matter, fresh and stimulating. In the preface, Professor Kittredge acknowledges his debt to the work of other Chaucerian scholars 'in both hemispheres,' but there is perhaps no book on Chaucer which owes so little to the labors of other men. It has the true originality of the scholar who has so thoroughly assimilated all that has been done before him as to make it in the best sense...
...meeting this evening Mr. A. H. Thorndike will read a paper on "Beaumont and Fletcher's Influence on Shakespere," and Mr. W. A. Neilson will give a report upon Skeat's "Chaucerian Pieces...
Modern Language Conference. Papers: Beaumont and Fletcher's Influence on Shakspere. Mr. A. H. Thorndike.- Report on Skeat's "Chaucerian Pieces." Mr. W. A. Neilson. Sever...
Modern Language Conference. Papers: Beaumont and Fletcher's Influence on Shakespeare. Mr. A. H. Thorndike.- Report on Skeat's "Chaucerian Pieces." Mr. W. A. Neilson. Sever...
...current number of the Manhattan magazine is by far the best number that has yet appeared. the principal articles are "Edwin Booth," by H. C. Pedder; "Literature and Science," by Matthew Arnold; "Recent Tendencies in American Journalism," by E. V. Smalley; "One View of the Chaucerian Mania," by Kate Sanborn; "Jasper Francis Cropsey," by W. H. Forman. Julia Hawthorne contributes a short story, and Edgar Fawcett continues his novel. The number is well illustrated throughout, the frontispiece being a portrait of Edwin Booth...