Word: emilia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES. 1. The origin of the Medieval French Epic. 2. Is Goethe's Egmont a better work, regarded as a drama, then Lessing's Emilia Galotti? 3. Ought a well established phonetic law to be regarded as admitting no real exceptions? 4. Is it possible to determine with some certainty Old French pronunciation? And if so, was it essentially different from the modern pronunciation? 5. Is the influence of Goethe's Faust for good or for evil? 6. A study of Lessings influence upon German Literature...
...feature of each number would be an article from the pen of some prominent alumnus, and common report assigned to Mr. Wendell the honor of contributing the first of this series. Such proves to be the case. The Monthly opens with a sketch by the author of the Duchess Emilia, entitled "Draper." We must confess to a little disappointment in reading it, and dared we say it, we would remark that this article is not the feature of the magazine. C. O. Hurd, '86, has a critical article on Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," in which...
...current Atlantic contains much of interest to Harvard men. In it are a poem, "Dawn and Dusk," and a review of the Duchess Emilia...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-It was with the utmost surprise that I read, in our college papers, the reviews of Mr. Wendell's romance, "The Duchess Emilia;" nor was that surprise lessened by a second careful reading of the book itself. Such blind and undiscriminating praise as was lavished upon it, can be but harmful to any but the strongest work. Mr. Wendell's romance has been called the "most powerful and original that has been produced in America since Hawthorne;" "as a piece of literary workmanship, almost perfect." The reviewers have suffered only from dearth of words in which...
...CRIMSON has a review of the novel, "The Duchess Emilia," written by a Harvard tutor, Mr. Barret Wendell." - Yale News...