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GREAT CIRCLE-Conrad Aiken-Scrib- ner ($2). Though Author Aiken takes his title from geometry (great circle: a circle on the surface of a sphere, whose plane passes through the centre of the sphere), his motto from Elizabethan John Marston ("O frantick, fond, pathetick passion! Is't possible such sensuall action should clip the wings of contemplation? . . . Fie, can our soule be underling to such a vile con-troule?") and his subject from everyday life (a deceived husband), yet his method is modern, cinematic, "stream-of-consciousness." Poet of involved psychological states, he is usually not at his best...
...Importance of Being Earnest," a play by Oscar Wilde, will be presented by the Dunster House Elizabethan Club on Wednesday. The cast is under the direction of E. A. Peterson...
Much possessed by Death, like Elizabethan John Webster but not to such a pitch, Faulkner's poetic tone of voice is more reminiscent of other poets, notably A. E. Housman. than of his own nightmarishly poetic prose...
...work of the course consists in learning the meanings, actual and supposed, of every word in six of Shakespeare's plays. By the time one is through with the course, he ought to know something about Elizabethan English. Some students actually do. Otherwise there is a good deal of memory work to be done, and without which, no matter how well a man does on the other material in the examination, he can get no higher than C. The emphasis is on small details, and if one doesn't like these minutiae, as Professor Kittredge suggests at the beginning...
...previous lectures he has discussed poetry and criticism of the Elizabethan days, during the Restoration period, and of the early days of Romanticism. His last lecture, delivered February 17, criticized the romanticists, especially Shelley and Keats, for forgetting verse in sociological zeal...