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SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT BURNS (371 pp.)-Edited by DeLancey Ferguson-Oxford...
...Burns forever riding the pendulum of a split personality: "Sentiment, sensuality, soaring and groveling, dirt and deity." Some of the best evidence for and against Burns the man-his robust, personable letters-has been sifted for the first time in two decades by a Brooklyn College English professor, DeLancey Ferguson, in an apt selection that suggests that Byron was right...
...DeLancey K. Jay Prize to John Morton Blum 4G for an essay entitled, "Tumulty and the Wilson...
...Delancey K. Jay Prize went to Robert G. McCloskey 2G for his thesis "The American Conservative Tradition, 1865-1910." For it McCloskey received $300. Harlan P. Hanson '46 was the recipient of the John A. Walz, Jr. Prize as the concentrator in German who passed the best divisional examination...
MARK TWAIN: MAN AND LEGEND-DeLancey Ferguson-Bobbs-Merrill($3). This biography aims "to trace in detail Mark Twain's career as a writing man, passing over lightly or ignoring, his multifarious nonliterary doings. " DeLancey Ferguson (professor of English at Western Reserve University) does an orderly tour of Mark Twain's professional career through his last lonely years, solaced by frenzied billiard games, Baconian theories, a glorified piano player, the dictation of his Autobiography. " Every character he ever wrote about, including Joan of Arc," says Ferguson, "was either drawn from the intensive experience of his first thirty years...