Word: essays
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Wright's edition of Malory's "History of King Arthur," and Mr. Furnival's edition of "Le Morte Arthur," by Gautier's Mapier, who wrote it as a conclusion to his account of the adventures of the Holy Graal. This last edition is valuable, because the Preface, and an essay on Arthur, by the late Herbert Coleridge, contain much interesting matter relative to the history of these legends. From Mr. Furnival's Preface are derived most of the facts embodied in this article...
...expatiate on those three bright stars of the literary firmament, and why did he pass over with so little notice Omar Khayyam? Simply because, instead of dwelling on the lesser luminaries, he chose the sun, the brightest of them all, Hafiz. It was not his purpose in this simple essay to give us a complete compendium of Persian literature, embracing all the poets of any note, as Mr. Ticknor has done for Spanish literature. Had Mr. Ticknor, in an essay of this limit, omitted an obscure poet, say Queredo, no one, I dare say, would have been shocked...
...Galaxy for May is an interesting number, although not a remarkable one. "A Plea for a Patriot" sets forth the claims of Tom Paine to the national gratitude, in an interesting and convincing manner. Richard Grant White talks of his "Seeking a Lost Art," and Albert Rhodes has an essay on "The Pursuit of the Dollar," in which he says many true and severe things of Americans, together with some things that are equally severe, though not as true. The regular departments are fully up to the standard of the magazine...
...half-concealed, often completely hidden humor running through the work and coming into view only to the observing eye of those whose souls are attuned to the spirit of the composition, and whose memories yet retain the exhilarating tone of the Dean's afternoon receptions. The delightful little essay on Censure Marks becomes almost poetical in its phraseology, and but for a few slight trips in metre and a superfluous line we might be deceived into reading it as a sonnet. The directness and conciseness of the writing cannot be too much praised, though we could wish that the word...