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Two of these latest additions were first editions of John Milton's writings, but these two were all that Harvard needed out of 38 separate early Milton's which were among the important features in Mr. White's collection. By making the Harvard Milton collection just so much nearer perfection...
Lynwood Sylvester Bryant '29, of East Northfield was the recipient of the first undergraduate Bowdoin prize of $250 in English for an essay entitled, "Fate in Hardy's Novels". Two second prizes of $100 each were awarded to Robert Gorham Davis '29, of Cambridge, and to Harold Freeze Folland '29...
The Elizabethan era and the period immediately succeeding it supplied the subjects for the second division. Spenser, Lyly, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Donne were the authors reviewed.
The Library collection of John Gay now ranks with the Harvard collections of the writings of Coleridge, Crowne, Dodgson, Donne, Dryden, Herbert, Keats, Milton, Persius, Prynne, Pope, and Walton in approaching a satisfactory state.
John Donne, the poet-preacher and devoted spokesman of "conceits" has been called with a certain cynical truth "the founder of a school of bad taste," "Donne" say Dryden, "affects the metaphysics not only in his Satires, but in his common verses where Nature only should reign, and perplexes the...